hello everyone welcome back to the Keep Productive youtube channel it's francesco here today
we will be diving into the top 10 new note-taking applications of 2021. now this is going to be a
list of applications that are more recent to the note-taking space they are not brand new fresh
off the block but they're neither they are old or older than say a two one or two years which
is the criteria for today's video if you did want to look at a more stable and reliable applications
that are on the market right now i'd definitely recommend checking out our official note-taking
applications list which is here on youtube we'll link in description below you can also skip ahead
in this video if you want to check out one in particular so let's start with number one and that
is ample note now this is an application that is gaining a lot of attention at the moment for being
a bit of a note-taking task management hub allowing you to firstly take your notes in a
very systemized fashion taking them capturing them collecting them and then organizing them
but also taking your tasks what's called a task score which deems whether it is too complicated
or too easy to do or how hard it will take to actually do that task it's quite an interesting
step embedding this task management inside of a note-taking application and something they're
becoming much more common now ample notes has a bit of a steeper price and it's definitely got a
little bit of a cult following behind it because a lot of people are jumping on this application and
enjoying it very much so i'll include links to ample note in description below as well
as our review on it here for keep productive so number two one that i got told off very much for
not including in the main official list the only reason i didn't is because it hasn't been out for
that long which is an app called craft documents now we've actually just released a course on this
if you do want to check out that below it's a free one essentially craft is this document application
with a few i guess additional abilities which makes it more of a notion like competitor so
essentially you can create documents on craft but you can link them up using backlinks you
can create these gorgeous cards using some of the premium features inside of the application which
allows you to turn very simple elements into these really nice interactive cards which doesn't just
bode well for you using it to create some sort of like wiki system for yourself life management
but also externally if you're looking to share it it definitely looks uh very neat organized
and professional so craft is gaining a lot of attention it's also natively built on ios and
mac so it's super fast and super easy to use actually um it's gaining a lot of attention for
that because obviously notion is built more widely whereas craft is built what i believe is called
natively and uh it's gaining a lot of attention okay so number three is an application called
spaces this is available for ios and mac and it's very new it's more of a note-taking application
at a glance it is a very simple style application you can start writing notes you can pin them to
the top and you can organize them in things like favorites um and you can get rid of them
in archive and bin etc and you can use these thing called spaces to organize them into different
sections a little bit like how bear organizes them with hashtags now this is much more of a
writer obligation those who want to write either short form or long form writing it's got a focus
mode which can help you narrow down on what you're writing in front of you it uses markdown and it's
a very much a minimalist application at the moment again it's more of a bear notes competitor as
it goes it's very early days but it does have the similar pricing at 14.99 per year for the
pro which gives you access to things like sync focus mode and a few more theme based features
very similar to the likes of their notes okay so number four is rem notes now remnant has been
something that i'm meaning to eagerly review here on the channel it's this rome slash notion
like application really tailored more towards students and researchers allowing you to connect
up your notes to existing notes inside of your remnant account which is perfect for
studying researching but also linking together thoughts and ideas and they've got some really
interesting development at the moment which allows them to add lots of new features and build on the
experience of linking notes it's very early days with ram notes but if you're looking for
an application like obsidian or rome but more tailored towards students this is probably a good
bet so number five another student type based application which is called supernodes this is
like a note-taking application sort of looks like a flashcard application but it's for collaborative
note-taking especially when you're working in groups at university college or you're in a study
group this is a really cool sort of application because you can link notes together it's got a
graph to help you to see the relationships between notes you're taking so for example if you want
to build relationships based on the things you're studying research topics etc this is quite a neat
application for that i would say it's a lot easier to comprehend and understand than an application
like remnant but remnant digs much deeper in terms of the advanced abilities which you might enjoy if
you are in the researching sort of mode however supernotes is more for studying and sort of being
able to take these very attractive looking cards that you can help link up and create and organize
systemized topics and have parents to organize that there as in parents when i'm in parents i
mean the organization system not your actual parents organizing your notes number six is
walling this is an application i've talked about a few times now it is this idea generation concept
that basically when you capture an idea and you can help link it to existing notes inside of your
walling account and then if you want to um if it turns into a project or an idea that needs further
explanation you can turn it into a wall and it has a board like features to help you to expand
and section out certain activities tasks and ideas as you're generating this idea now it's got
some good graph abilities a wizard to help you connect up stuff and really dig deeper on each
note you add and a daily desk for helping you to dump stuff there collect stuff and organize it
for later it's quite a new concept but i really like it i've been talking about it for a while
we've got a review here on keep productive if you wanted to check it out okay so nimbus notes
that's number seven and this is an app that did impress me it's got i feel like a really reliable
sort of experience behind it it's been around for a while but i've included in a new one because
it's large attention most recently but nimbus notes is getting a lot of attention from evernote
users because it has some good experiences in it that are reliable and stable i really like
the way they capture emails in there i also like some of the web and screenshot clipping abilities
that they do have but nimbus note seems to be the place where evident users are flocking to
now of course um it's still early days for the application as it's growing however it
is impressive to see a lot of evident users move over to this application so number eight we have
obsidian this is an app i've been talking about for a while we've actually got a course on it
that's how much i'm eager to sort of share about it because i think it's an application it's
really gaining a lot of attention at the moment especially because rome research has got this
whole bidirectional links market sort of hyped up and excited but obsidian does a great job of
replicating rome for free allowing you to really go deeper take some really advanced notes and be
able to do the same sort of block referencing and link referencing inside of obsidian that you would
in rome so it's really gaining a lot of attention as a note taker but also a bi-directional network
thought tool that the market is hyping about at the moment okay so bundle notes is an app that
has changed quite rapidly since i checked it out originally but you can essentially take notes on
this application it's fully marked down available and you can create this thing called bundles and
when you create bundles you can organize them in different layouts for example they have this
like sort of board layout this slash spreadsheet layout and also a few other layouts you can
organize things in tags it's very much marked down focused but i guess it's um trying to add the
simplicity of google keep but the like assessor tagging an organization system of some more of
the deeper applications with layouts like kanban dark mode sorting and changings to layout options
which make it a little bit more interesting now it's only available right now on android and web
so it's still very early days for this application but it looks like it could be an interesting tool
in the future in beta at the moment so number 10 um i think i may have even included this in the
official list but i say it's still early days for this application in terms of that it's more recent
it's an app called standard notes standard notes provides you with a really reliable note-taking
experience that's available across all devices it has aes 256 note encryption on it which is
pretty impressive and privacy is the key to this application so they've really designed
this to be encryption focused and it's probably one of the best note-taking applications for
that in the space bear notes have some light no encryption however this really takes it to the
next level they even have a five-year plan to lock you in for that long with your notes and it does
have some really nice theming that can take your account a lot further and some editor plugins that
takes again your account from maybe being a very basic markdown editor to something a lot further
and you can really customize that to what you want so guys those were the top 10 note-taking
applications of 2021 and then the new ones as you can imagine we hoped you enjoyed today's list if
we missed any out please do share them below we'd love your thoughts on all of these which ones are
you using which ones are you checking out in a moment feel free to pop them in the comments below
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