Member-only story
The Best Note-Taking App for You
Personal recommendations from a productivity app reviewer
The productivity app market is crazy at times and one aspect of that big market is note-taking applications. There’s so many to choose from but when you find the right one for you, the results can be marvellous.
We’ve shortlisted a few personal recommendations that I think you’ll take benefit from and we’ve categorised them down to four types.
📮 You can skip this article and enjoy our round-up on YouTube below:
🗂 Type 1: Connected
Connected note-takers are more modern in concept, but most popular at the moment. They simply help you to connect one note to another. This is commonly referred to as note-linking or bi-directional links and helps you to create a brain like map of your notes.
This is typically perfect for researchers, study goers and those learning to help build synapses between notes. But in premise can be used by anyone.
Here are our recommendations for tools that best suit this:
- Obsidian – powerful bi-directional note-taker and free
- Roam Research – fan-adored note-taker perfect for note philosophers
- Hypernotes – new kid on the block with entry level skillset needed
📚 Type 2: Traditional
Let’s face it, some note-taking application just seem to do everything well – like being able to save a PDF or being able to capture a voice recording, nothing massively trivial but something that comes in handy for everyday capture and save.
These tools I’ve ear marked as traditional, ones that help get the job done and probably used by the masses mainly – ones who don’t need too many advanced abilities or need for a specific ability.
