NOTES APPS: THE SAGA CONTINUES

So I said I would keep you posted. These past few months have not been good on the app switching front. I’ve changed my notes app 3 times since I ‘settled’ on Notion.

Notion is a powerful app, but it isn’t really designed specifically to take on any key role in your workflow. It is like a Swiss army knife of tools. It can be a saw, but it isn’t the best saw. It can be a bottle opener, but it isn’t the best bottle opener. Everything in Notion feels like a workaround. Feels like you are hacking an app to do something it wasn’t really designed for.

So I moved on.

Nimbus note is excellent but even after a fix was applied I found I could not trust the integrity of my notes and therefore…don’t even go there.

So I love OneNote. But the disparity between available functions and features across devices was hampering my workflow. The lack of consistent tagging system and the lack of targeted reminders.

In the end, I have chosen to return to Evernote. I do not feel Evernote is the best app and I have frustrations with what you can and can’t do in the note editor. That having been said, o like the look and feel of the new Evernote. It is improving quite rapidly as well. Also, the consistency of functionality across all platforms means I never feel the frustration that ‘if only I had my windows work pc I could do this….’ It means I can be effective when I just have my tablet or phone.

So, like Carl Pullein and Francesco D’Alessio I am sticking with Evernote.