I am still waiting for an alternative that gives me the ability and ease to do #1 and #2 above. Now, the con is that deep lock-in to the Apple ecosystem. 'Household todo' - is our shared todo list for stuff around the house. 'To buy' is our commonly used shopping list. Now they are in one place and recorded forever. My wife and I share a few notes with purposes - 'Things to Know' - for the important tidbits that we end up sharing via Messages/email. Had a thought while I am traveling, want to put it down? Notes on iPhone. I needed to look something up while I am waiting in queue somewhere? iPhone provides an excellent interface with usable Search while on the Go. Sync - I write my notes on my Mac while working. Forcing me to first upload an image somewhere, and then use () syntax to correctly load the file in MarkDown is the opposite of what I want my Notes application to be.Ģ. Drag and Drop images, screenshots, annotate them in place.

I've yet to find anything that matches Apple Notes.Īpple Notes takes the crown for being the most unobstructive when it comes to taking notes.ġ. I previously used Evernote, and I've tried Notion (slow, awful for organizing, 'block model' gets in the way of writing). But Markdown is a compromise - things like asterisks and underlines are less legible than the bold and italics they represent (especially across more than one word), and links become nigh unreadable, not to mention things like inline images and tables. I think Markdown is fine for technical docs, where no good standard for rich text editing exists. My heart sinks when a new note-taking app boasts of Markdown support, as if that's a good thing. I also like that Notes is rich text all the way. It's not quite as elegantly real-time as Google Docs, but we don't need that as much, since we tend to edit at different times. We use it for grocery lists, dinner planning, travel planning, and many other things. I use Apple Notes, and I constantly share notes with my wife - and entire folder structures, too. I keep seeing apps like these, and what they almost never have is sharing notes between multiple people.

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