Stop Searching for the Perfect Note-Taking App. Use Them All!
Do you only own one paper notebook?
A quick search of Medium suggests that a lot of people spend a lot of time wondering which note-taking app is right for them. Wondering, experimenting, and then typing thousands of words in an attempt to figure it out.
Since there isn’t yet a clear winner in the personal knowledge management space, there are scads of software companies vying for investor dollars and users’ attention. That cut-throat competition means that the best programs are functionally free. Who knows how long that will last, but right now most of these products are available at no cost — at least for a limited period. (Roam Research is an outlier in this regard. And I’ll be honest, for me, the company’s resistance to offering a free taste is its big differentiator. The insistence that users pay to play makes Roam stand out from the crowd.)
Fans of bi-directional linking — which allows note-takers to connect their ideas and jump from concept to concept, testing hypotheses and developing their thoughts along the way — can choose among Obsidian, Logseq, Roam Research, Remnote, Inkdrop, and other programs.
Then there are the all-in-one programs, such as Notion, Airtable, or newcomer Anytype, which claim to make it easy to create…
