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Built-in will always win for tools like that => Notes.app

Last time I checked, Notes.app couldn't even export notes in formats other than PDF.

Considering it's likely the most used note keeping app there is, that isn't much of a blocker for an awful lot of people.

There are some open source tools, e.g. https://github.com/storizzi/notes-exporter I've used another tool in the past (cannot remember the name), and it worked ok.

I personally cannot trust Apple to store data, so I only use Apple Notes for throw-away notes like shopping lists.

I've been looking for something simple that I can use cross platform (I don't care about mobile, so just across macOS and Linux really). So far I found nb, which is nice, but it tried to do to much and locating notes isn't great. I've also tried Bear, which is macOS only, but it also doesn't organize notes in a great way in my opinion.

Is there anything simple, which doesn't require you to be an organizational genius already? Notes.app is sort of okay, but no cross platform.

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