Note taking serves a different purpose than writing documents. This is just to jot down information.

Also see Productivity​

What I Wish For:

• Tags / Taxonomy

• Automatic Entering of Timestamps

Requirements for Note Taking

• Has to handle a lot of notes, think 1000s of notes

• Decent styling

Apple Notes

Used for:

• Basic note taking.

• Short term notes.

Pros:

• Sync across Apple devices

Cons:

• Doesn't scale when you have 1000s of notes

Evernote

Feels clumsy

Google Docs

I use this with my Timestamps tool.

Method of use:

• Single document per topic

• Timestamp the time of entering note

Used for:

• Notes I know I want to keep long term/archive

nvAlt / Notational Velocity

This used to be my power horse, but I've stopped using it once syncing with other products worked decently.

​https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/​

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