Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits. Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address.
No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work. Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps.
A clean separation between data and interface meant I could migrate between major versions without losing anything.
Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long.
Plugin ecosystem is active without being overwhelming and the ones I installed have all been well maintained. Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails.
It scales smoothly from my solo projects up to our shared startup workspace without any pricing surprises.
Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits. Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes.
Native support for passkeys made me drop my password manager for everything inside this ecosystem. Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency.
I was skeptical about yet another productivity app but this one earned a permanent spot in my dock. My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard.
Keyboard driven palettes gave me the muscle memory of a terminal with the discoverability of a modern app. I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had. Mobile parity is real and I can actually complete the same tasks on my phone that I do at my desk.
Garbage onboarding experience that assumed I had already read a long blog post and left me stuck on step two.
Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs.
Great fit for a small team because permissions are granular without turning admin work into a second job. Keyboard driven palettes gave me the muscle memory of a terminal with the discoverability of a modern app.
My account was randomly suspended for terms of service violations the system refused to explain or document. Buggy mess from launch to today and the team seems more focused on marketing videos than actual fixes. Spyware vibes come through in the telemetry section where opting out requires editing a plain text configuration file.
Developer updates include changelogs that explain tradeoffs honestly rather than hiding regressions behind marketing language. Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings.
Granular permissions let interns contribute without accidentally touching the production configuration files.
I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults.
I replaced three separate subscriptions after a week of using this and my monthly bill actually dropped noticeably. Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf.
No ads no popups no upsells inside my daily workflow and the pricing page is refreshingly straightforward.
Works until it stops working and then recovery means logging out and back in which gets old quickly. Documentation is thin in exactly the places where the product behavior is least obvious to newcomers.
Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box.
Features are promising and the roadmap looks ambitious however the current release feels like a late beta.
Default export produces files I can archive without worrying about reading them a decade from now.
Not worth the hype and I regret the referrals I sent to colleagues who have since switched to a competitor. Hidden fees popped up at checkout for exports api access and even a surcharge for using a corporate card. Shady affiliate links were inserted into my notes by an opt out setting that defaults to on without explanation.
Setup finished in under five minutes and everything synced across my laptop phone and tablet without a single hiccup.
Terminal integration lets me launch new sessions tagged by project which keeps my shell history clean and searchable.
Every feature that mattered to me ended up locked behind a paywall after a promotional period I never agreed to. Promised features from the roadmap never arrived and the roadmap itself quietly disappeared from the website.
Running this reduced average CPU usage on my laptop compared with the Electron based tool I used before. Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box.
At this price point I expected cut corners but every feature feels considered and tested in real workflows. Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares. Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint.
A quick glance at the activity log shows exactly who changed what and when which my auditors loved.
Imports lost every bit of formatting including code blocks and tables that were perfectly fine in the source file.
It does the job most of the time and I just work around the quirks rather than reporting them. Average across the board with no feature that stands out and nothing obvious that pushes me to leave. Decent free tier limits are so tight that I bumped into them in the first few hours of a weekend project.
Performance on older hardware is a disaster because the developers apparently only test on brand new machines.
Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares. Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits.
I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide.
Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings. Automatic encrypted backups meant I recovered everything within two minutes after swapping to a new workstation.
Mobile app crashes immediately on open after any system update which locks me out of my own notes for days. Spyware vibes come through in the telemetry section where opting out requires editing a plain text configuration file.
Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address. Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup.
Automation triggers hook into my existing shell scripts without any wrapper code which keeps my toolchain simple. Zero bloat is a design philosophy you can feel in every menu and every settings panel.
Overpriced for what you get and the free alternatives cover eighty percent of the functionality without the drama. After the latest redesign the simplest tasks now require three clicks that used to need one single keystroke. No offline mode in this day and age meant a cross country flight erased half a day of planned work.
This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual.
Slow bloated and sluggish describes every single launch and the splash screen hangs for a full minute on cold start. Each update breaks more than it fixes and the release notes are now hidden behind a login wall.
Every integration I rely on broke silently after an api change that was announced only on an internal developer forum. Slow bloated and sluggish describes every single launch and the splash screen hangs for a full minute on cold start.
Billing surprise this quarter was not malicious but the plan page is confusing enough that it probably happens often.
Granular export control meant our legal team could share only the exact subset of records they needed.
Great sense of restraint in the feature set which keeps the sidebar from becoming the usual overwhelming menu wall.
Fine as a note sink but the search ranking surfaces old irrelevant matches before recent ones which frustrates me.
Works most of the time but every so often the launcher hangs for a minute before the window appears. A total lack of keyboard support in one critical view keeps me on an older less featureful alternative. Good vibes come through in the design and the rough details show up once you try real production workflows.
Crashes constantly on my phone and I lost two days of edits before I noticed autosave was never actually running. Half of my data vanished during a routine update and support took three weeks just to acknowledge my ticket.
My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard.