Hello Vern and welcome back to the Keep Productive YouTube channel, it is francesco here and welcome back to another feature on today's feature
we're going to be diving into the top 5 note-taking applications of
2019 now I think you'll enjoy this if you're looking for a personal note taking application
That best matches your needs if you've already got one and you're working well with it
There's no need to change but these are some of the best ones to pick in 2019
So without further ado guys, let's roll into today's future
So as I said guys these are personal productivity applications
So they're more suited for your own individual use. I am looking to put together a team note taking application
Video and I'm going to split this video into two
So to start here
we're going to be diving into the top 5 and then we're talking about some of these notable mentions that are available as
Note-taking options if you're looking to span a bit further into other solutions. So let's start with that top 5 and first one is
OneNote Microsoft OneNote is a
Super popular notetaking application and it's mainly used in the education space for students for academics
But it's also used in the business world because it comes with the suite in Microsoft Office
and it allows people to take really high-quality notes organized them into
similar note-taking notebook experiences as we have inside of Evernote and it does provide a lot of people with a
Really reliable solution in terms of getting an alternative to Evernote now. It's pretty available as well
It's available on web from Mac Windows
of course and all of the devices on your mobile like iOS and Android
so it is pretty widely available and has really great features in terms of audio recording and
Also one thing that a lot of people like is the annotation abilities, they go into a huge amount of detail on Windows
Especially so if you're looking for a reliable replacement for Evernote, then this might be the application for you
especially because the features align most closely with
Ok number 2 and this is a bit of a wild choice for me because this application
Hasn't been out in the wild for too long. But I do think it's an application that a lot of people are thoroughly enjoying
It's good standard notes now standard notes is an application that is open source, so it is developed by a team
Who are basically building this as they go along but building it in a different type of framework to many of the other
applications this will allow people to develop on it further and
Build the experience as well as time goes on now standard notes is definitely an application that's available widely
It's cross-platform
It has a powerful sink and what is killer features is security in privacy now with applications like Evernote
Encryption hasn't been the main focus and still isn't a date and with standard notes
They have really put all their their attention including 2-step authentication
to five six encryption on all of their notes
Which is pretty good and you do get a free plan and a paid plan as well
Which takes you even further into the experience?
Especially if you're looking for more themes more editors and much more stability if you're a pro user
Now what I recommend is checking out standard notes. They're a new company, but I'd say they're a new company
But then we've been developing for two or three years
but as you could imagine this is a bit more of a wild card, but definitely something that is popular in
2019. Okay. So number three is
Agenda now agenda is a different type of note. Take it to some extent
It blends a note-taking with the calendar experience allowing you to create notes based on date relation
so for example
If I had an upcoming meeting I could add a date and a time and that would appear in my a general application
Now one of the only problems with agenda is it's only available on iOS and Mac, which is a shame that the application is
Really reliable. It has won many Apple awards and it seems to be a good experience now
I've used it very briefly
however
I've done a full review on it
if you want to see and have dived into both of the
Experiences in which I'm still very impressed with now as time goes on
I think this is going to exciting application and definitely reminds me of bear in the early days
Now if you're looking for an agenda alternative or that might not be suitable for you
There is another application called note plan, which we've done the review on as well note plan 2.0
It's available through Mac and iPhone as well
so number four and one that I want to leave a few disclaimers about is
Notion now notion is a really powerful application
It does just more than note-taking but a lot of people are using it as a note-taker as an Evernote replacement
Which is absolutely fine. And that's great because it has all of the abilities
however
There are a few flaws in it when it comes to direct comparison to Evernote, and I've talked about this before
Let's talk about the main - that's probably the Web Clipper being less advanced
You can only clip things like articles and you can't even clip emails in to notion
So that's a bit of a shame
A lot of people aren't doing that especially for notes
But there is one major thing and that's the offline abilities now
If you have a page saved inside notion, for example, you've opened it before the cache should save that from whatever device you're using
However at the moment they don't have any offline capabilities
but I'm pretty sure they'll be adding it in the near future because I don't know a lot of people are raving about this and
Really wanting it as part of the experience
Now notion does have great abilities and you can replicate a lot of the tagging experiences
And also some of the properties that you can add a side of notion really do replace a lot that was in Evernote
For example file upload tables and more and going into much more rich detail
Now I recommend notion and of course
I do think as long as
You don't have those things and you don't rely on those offline abilities
And I think notion is a positive replacement number of five and that is bear now bear notes is an application
Available on iOS and Mac and they're looking to add to this realm I believe they're looking to add a web version
That's my last sort of memory that they were gonna add two new cross-platform ability
But it's an application that a lot of people love to use because it is a good plan between note-taking abilities and long-form writing
So it's like a good help me blend between the two applications you can use it as a note-taker
It has the majority of abilities of something like Evernote dance
but it doesn't necessarily have some of for example like the advanced table abilities and
Also, for example, like notion has some of the database abilities. It's more of a lightweight
It's sort of like a blend between Apple notes and evident that sort of middle ground there and it's a really reliable application
it's something that I typically recommend for those who are using note-taking, but also want to write a
Long-form scripts or pieces and blend those two experiences now they look to extend it with their next update
Which I'm sure I do a video on it very soon
Okay guys, so this is going to be the bit of the nerdier section of this video
I want to talk about a few of the ones that come up typically in lists
The you guys may have heard of as note takers
and the first one I want to talk about is Dropbox paper now draw balls have a service called paper and it's a way for
Your team to create documents that act as notes in terms of being able to create meeting agendas
Even project management to some extent in being able to plan stuff out there now think this is a great note-taker
There's actually a good reliable source, especially if you're using Dropbox
It's sort of like if you had a Google Drive account you were actively using it and you could switch on note-taking inside it
And you could do that to some extent through Google keep
But this Dropbox paper is a really easy and attractive way to use it. It reminds me very similar to notion
But what I'd say is it's much more optimized when you're using it in a team situation
Now this comes on to the second point I want to talk about which is quip quip is a service run by
Salesforce and it is to some extent a note-taker
But it is more of a team note-taker a team document builder the like Dropbox paper is than it is necessarily a note-taker
And that's what typically comes in lists and sometimes people get sort of muddled up and how its suitable no two of the recommendations
Zoho notebook is a really good application. It's pretty reliable
It doesn't have a massively strong Web Clipper
But it has the ability to capture audio
Notes and also images and files and things like that and I remind it reminds me of Google
Keep which is very similar to it to some extent but it does have a lot stronger
Abilities than Google keep on saying it goes a little bit further in terms of a note taker on
The mention of Google keep as well. Google keep is another strong note taking application
But again, this is only suitable if you use it in a sort of post-it note format
Google keep is really reliable. It comes on all devices in terms of iOS Android and web
however
It doesn't necessarily have the more advanced
Long-form note-taking abilities that Zoho notebook would have so you're only going to use this in a really?
Post-it note format in being able to add notes across the screen maybe some little reminders for yourself now
I want to mention two others, although there are plenty more note-taking applications out there and that's unit notes now
Do you know his cum on my radar and a lot of people have been mentioning it on Twitter?
and it's sort of like a blend between notion and
Other applications like Evernote, but what it say is it's very early days
It's less than a year since it's been out tomorrow collection and it's not necessarily something to jump on board with
Especially with these note takers
you should at least see at the year and whether they've been developing for a longer time because this will give you an indication of
the reliability of the service for example
You know notion I wasn't actively recommending it for note-taking until it became
in public knowledge that it was earning money and it was reliable and there were no technical issues with it and
At the moment. I'm still bringing myself to that stage
So I'm trying to make sure that you guys are getting a reliable note-taking service out there and finally Auto notes
Which i've reviewed here on this channel Auto notes is more of a meeting notes experience allowing you to capture audio and turn it into
Transcriptions I recommend checking out out if you're more of a meeting agenda person and you want to be able to capture meeting notes
Without having to lift a finger. I definitely recommend checking out the full review and if guys a big, thank you
I hope you enjoyed this top 5 note taking applications feature as well as sort of like a note top Evernote alternatives video
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