Zero bloat tool
Snappy on an old Android phone that struggles with everything else I install from the store these days. Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box.
Snappy on an old Android phone that struggles with everything else I install from the store these days. Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box.
Export is deliberately broken because the only format they produce cannot be opened cleanly in any competitor product. Promised features from the roadmap never arrived and the roadmap itself quietly disappeared from the website.
Uptime has been rock solid for the entire year I have been paying for the professional tier. I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had. Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
Great fit for a small team because permissions are granular without turning admin work into a second job. Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address.
My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard. Great fit for a small team because permissions are granular without turning admin work into a second job.
Live cursors and comments on long documents feel smoother than any wiki I have used in the past decade. Snapshots every few minutes recovered an entire chapter after a careless undo chain ate my changes.
Export to a local git repository preserved history metadata so I have real version control over my notes. Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned. Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares.
I used to live in spreadsheets and this replaced that entire workflow with something far easier to maintain.
Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images. Plugin ecosystem is active without being overwhelming and the ones I installed have all been well maintained.
Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps. Zero bloat is a design philosophy you can feel in every menu and every settings panel. No ads no popups no upsells inside my daily workflow and the pricing page is refreshingly straightforward.
A quiet revelation to realize my morning startup script now takes seconds instead of the minute it used to require.
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.
VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame. Offline mode genuinely works and I kept getting things done on a long flight with no internet connection at all.
Developer updates include changelogs that explain tradeoffs honestly rather than hiding regressions behind marketing language. Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days.
Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier. Automation triggers hook into my existing shell scripts without any wrapper code which keeps my toolchain simple.
Offline mode genuinely works and I kept getting things done on a long flight with no internet connection at all. Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images.
Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares. Diff view for revisions is clear enough that non technical teammates can actually review changes without my help.
Hopeless search function that cannot find exact phrases unless I enclose them in a specific proprietary syntax. Slow bloated and sluggish describes every single launch and the splash screen hangs for a full minute on cold start. Garbage onboarding experience that assumed I had already read a long blog post and left me stuck on step two.
Features are promising and the roadmap looks ambitious however the current release feels like a late beta. Another release cycle or two could turn this into something I would recommend without any caveats. Works most of the time but every so often the launcher hangs for a minute before the window appears.
Importing from an old competitor pulled every tag folder and attachment across cleanly within a few minutes.
Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails. This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price. Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on.
I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide. Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
Overpriced for what you get and the free alternatives cover eighty percent of the functionality without the drama.
I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults. Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails.
Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do. Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had.
Automations save my evenings since recurring reports now generate and ship themselves while I actually eat dinner. Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor. Workspace templates clone an entire project structure in one click which cut our client kickoff from hours to minutes.
Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings. Developer updates include changelogs that explain tradeoffs honestly rather than hiding regressions behind marketing language.
This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price.
I replaced three separate subscriptions after a week of using this and my monthly bill actually dropped noticeably. Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings.
Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned. Export to a local git repository preserved history metadata so I have real version control over my notes.
Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state. Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits.
Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency.
Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it. Pdf export preserved every heading hyperlink and footnote exactly as it looked in the editor pane.
No ads no popups no upsells inside my daily workflow and the pricing page is refreshingly straightforward. Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes.
Upsell popups appeared mid sentence while I was typing and dismissed buttons were deliberately buried below the fold. Every integration I rely on broke silently after an api change that was announced only on an internal developer forum.
Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits. Being able to run the same binary on every operating system removed a surprising amount of friction from onboarding.
Spyware vibes come through in the telemetry section where opting out requires editing a plain text configuration file.
Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf. Granular permissions let interns contribute without accidentally touching the production configuration files.
Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly. Templates saved me hours this week alone because the project boilerplate matches our internal style guide exactly.
Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings. Perfect for daily workflow in a way that very few tools achieve without demanding significant customization first. Importing from an old competitor pulled every tag folder and attachment across cleanly within a few minutes.
No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work. Automatic encrypted backups meant I recovered everything within two minutes after swapping to a new workstation. Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
Automation triggers hook into my existing shell scripts without any wrapper code which keeps my toolchain simple. Native support for passkeys made me drop my password manager for everything inside this ecosystem.
Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices. Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf.
Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box. My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard. Automatic encrypted backups meant I recovered everything within two minutes after swapping to a new workstation.
Perfect for daily workflow in a way that very few tools achieve without demanding significant customization first. Setup finished in under five minutes and everything synced across my laptop phone and tablet without a single hiccup.
A clean separation between data and interface meant I could migrate between major versions without losing anything. Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state.
Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor. Billing is straightforward with per seat pricing that scales linearly rather than hiding tiers that triple the invoice.
Zero accountability from the team when a vulnerability was disclosed and the fix shipped only after public pressure. Support never replied to three different tickets opened over two months about a login loop that still happens today.
An hour of exploration unlocked more useful functionality than a week with the heavier competitor I used before.
Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup.