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Note taking apps.

I've used Evernote, OneNote, Apple Notes, and Notion.

I prefer Notion hands down.

I dislike OneNote. Poor syncing. Hard to keep formatting consistent. Can't link to notes easily. Web app is inferior to installed app.

I used to love Evernote, but then it got slow, which led me to eval the others. This ultimately led me to Notion.

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Notion introduced (me to) the idea of slash commands and block-based editing. Now there's many others.

Yeah to me the block system thing just makes a lot of sense

Methinks it's all boiling down to some kind of lingua franca for document structure. Altho things like footnotes and tables of content will not fit. Not RSN anyways.

I liked notion but then it too got slow as it added enterprise features.

Out of curiosity have you ever looked into Obsidian? Not that I think it's a replacement or superior but I feel that it's in the same space.

Not GP commenter, but I've used Apple Notes, emacs org-mode, Evernote, Notion, Coda, Obsidian, and Google Docs. I prefer Apple Notes for personal notes, and Google Docs for shared notes, and Notion for ones that I publish as web pages.

Is there a strategy in apple notes to better organize/reference other notes? I'm pretty new to the Apple ecosystem and don't really grok it.

Agreed on Google Docs (at least for design documents).

Tbh I reference other notes by manually writing their name. I don’t do it much, if I was going to do a lot of that I’d use obsidian.

I have used it and if you take time to customize it, it surpasses all the other options simply because you can do whatever you please with your data.

Sometimes I edit my markdown files in other editors like Bear (or web interfaces). Sometimes I draw handwritten notes on my ipad and insert them as images.

It all works pretty well.

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