hello everyone welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel it is francesco
here hope everyone's doing great um i had a bit of a week off so um i didn't make uh the note-taking
ranking video straight away but today i'm gonna be ranking note-taking applications
just to note that obviously these are all my own opinion the last one was good but i changed a few
things about the format of this one so i've changed firstly the ranking i'm not going to
whilst i'm going to talk a little bit about the future of each application i'm not going to talk
about it as a ranking option so there is going to be five ranking options amazing which is fantastic
like absolutely great great good average and naf naf i think is a english term for rubbish
i didn't think it'd say like a actual word so um i have the note taking apps below one thing that
i'm probably always gonna get you know noted in the comments is i'm gonna miss an application
or i'm just not gonna include it i'm gonna try and get to every single application
and use traditional sort of categorization for these but they span over so many applications
there are some hybrids in here that involve two processes so do bear with me but i love to always
hear yourself in the comments telling and sharing about where you think application should be placed
so we're here with teammaker i'll include the link in description if you did want to make
your own tear maker for this one so let's start with no plan now no plan is actually uh in its
third edition i really like the application it's really well designed for ios and mac it actually
looks really attractive but works more like like a sort of blend between agenda and rome and obsidian
with the new edition of backlinks and it can sort of be like a home hub basis now for all of your
notes tasks and calendar events there are a few of these applications popping up the likes of
ample notes is another one which is up next but i'm going to put this one inside a great because
i'm really impressed with how this application has launched how it's addressing sort of i guess hub
productivity systems and i feel like this is like a new space that's doing very well at the moment
now the same goes for ample notes i'm gonna probably put this in good only because i think
their pricing is a little bit high but i also think that they're still early days in terms of
their journey and when i use the web application it did seem a little bit clunky on the end whereas
something like notepad was a bit more stable so i'm actually going to put ample notes in good
however inside of ample notes i was super impressed at the task score abilities i think that
is super awesome and something that i think even task management applications can learn from
even though it's this task calendar slash uh note taker all in enrolled into one now up next up
is a friend it's it's the elephant it's evernote um now you guys know that i've been using it but
back again as my sort of go-to personal notetaker and whilst i'm impressed with the 10 update i've
said publicly i'm not that happy with the bug sign of stuff it definitely does sort of take
away from that consistent experience you expect with evernote and they do need to address it
and there's a fair few bugs um i think a lot of it it's like almost like when you land on it it's the
stability side of it like even the note sometimes wobbles and it feels a little bit clunky i'm sure
they'll work on it they're doing two weekly fixes by the looks of it so that's not too bad that's
why i'm gonna put it in good um i'm not gonna give it a great i'm gonna give it an amazing it's just
good at the moment and if you're sort of looking for my opinion i think it's as i said not just
there yet so next up is agenda notes so this one is something that i'm quite impressed with it won
apple's design award back in 2018 it's an impressive looking application blends calendars
and notes together and i think if you're someone that is calendar note orientated has an ios or mac
device this is a really nice application because it doesn't over complicate things um it actually
makes it quite simple as an application we've actually got a new sort of mini course on it which
i'll link in description coming soon but i would say it's definitely in the sort of good grade
category um i like that it's free forever i don't necessarily have to go to the premium to access it
so that's pretty good in itself that's why i think it's a great it's a really well-built application
so next up is bear and this is a private markdown editor very similar to agenda to some extent but
does it have those calendar abilities very much keeps it to notes and very simple notes tagging
system to get you going it's available again very apple uh intensive ios and mac but i'm going to
give this one a great as well i think this is a really well built application and something that
the team have developed nicely over the years so now onenote um a lot of people ask me like
microsoft onenote what are your opinions on i think it's a great cross-platform application
alternative to evernote i always tend to normally recommend it for college students um just because
of the way that it connects with onedrive and under such microsoft products however i'm never
too i'm impressed with some of the the the handwriting functionality in it however i'm
never too impressed with the way that it's sort of i guess i'm never impressed that it's a collective
product it's never something that has a mute like made it sort of an amazing experience to
use so i'm going to put in average just because i feel like it's a bit like google keep to some
extent it's a bit like the go-to application in the market i'm not going to say it's like google
keep because it's not like google keep it's very much its own product but onenote4b is an average
next up is nimbus note and this is one that actually impressed me when i first checked it out
it definitely has stronger stability than evernote at the moment and it's doing very well
in terms of providing a pretty intensive clip abilities which i really like and also some of the
more advanced abilities that evernote users have expected in the past and a decent price as well
so at the moment i think for the bank for your buck value for your money it's definitely in
the great category it's really impressed me over the last couple of months and definitely deserves
to be in that category and as you can imagine evernote need to look at the application like this
but i can see evernote sort of looking to rome and obsidian to sort of jump past them but only time
will tell guys only time will tell now next up is notion again i'm really always impressed with
notion of the way they've positioned themselves in the market i definitely think notion is a great
application i feel like none of these are going to go into the amazing category but at the same time
um it's something that is doing really well at the moment it's becoming more stable and i just
think they've done well at capturing a mass market audience you see like instagrammers youtubers and
even like students like pretty much everyone you wouldn't expect to have a notetaker be able to
jump on board with this one and it's one that a lot of people have fallen into sort of deep
learning on which is great so that's always nice to see especially the sort of mass market side of
stuff next up is obsidian now i've really not invested in obsidian because of like in terms
of my learning i actually haven't done anything inside the city a lot of people ask like are you
using obsidian no i'm not because i don't think it's suitable for me however i'm always impressed
the way they're building applications and the speed at which they're doing so the main reason
i say that is because they are doing what rome is doing but i would say faster to some extent and
also they're also doing it in a free experience and focusing on the privatization of data which
is really nice in terms of having it offline in your the local storage so i'm going to go and put
obsidian as amazing i think that it's got a really interesting next 12 months especially
because it hasn't even come out of beta yet which is impressive at the least so next up is actually
you can't see on the start mode it's rome i'm going to just hover over here because you can
see the logo then again rome is it has impressed me since its launch mainly due to the fact that
it's got such a cult following people love it and it adds features at a good rate it also has
one of those sort of teams um the development team and founder that are so intuitive with their
community that they definitely understand them and know what's going on so that's why i'm definitely
going to put in a great category a fair amount of them are going in a great category let's see
what the finer ones get we've got google keep up next and i'm going to immediately pop this
in average um because i i view it sort of as one note i feel like it's good if you're looking to
very nicely note take lightly i it reminds me very much of having post-it notes on your phone
if you're someone that really wants that that's where it's a good bet however for me i just find
it an average experience and obviously it doesn't really go much further than you expect now simple
note is probably in that sort of category i rate it as naf i just don't think it's got anything
going for it necessarily it has like this sort of basic abilities you expect with the note taker
and it is free which was great about it but at the same time it's you know like standard notes which
is another application that we've got with coming to review on here at the end it's like stat it has
very basic standard abilities but standard notes has a lot more theming a lot more extensions that
you can take a lot further i'm going to skip ahead to standard notes this is a great application in
my opinion i think this is doing really well especially at the privatization of your data
securing it so i'm going to put it in amazing hovered over great then but actually i think
it definitely deserves to land in amazing it's a really well put together application they've got
a five-year plan as well in terms of a five-year pricing plan which is something that rome actually
has but i think i really like this application in terms of keeping it secure and keeping your
data i think they've really narrowed themselves down same goes to dynalist i'm quite i'm always
impressed with dynalist but i'm going to put it in a good category i think that the application is
really well put together what i particularly like about it is the fact that they've sort of built a
obsidian based on the learnings from dynalist because they're from the same company dynalist
is definitely one of those tools that if you see a pro user use it or somebody that knows how to use
it or they've learned over time you definitely see the benefit of the application i just really like
the style of it it's very similar to workflowy as we talking about workflowy we'll pop work
flowy and good as well because i think they're on similar part dynalist workflowy if you're looking
for an outliner both of those two are good options next up is one that i actually haven't checked
out properly yet i've got an interview coming up with the traps who are there um i'm excited for it
and i'm just going to put this one in good because from what i've done for my research
it's a good application and they're sort of creeping on the rome sort of room for
students market which i think is a good market to go into especially when you get students that are
heavily invested in research and study and want to be able to use the bi-directional linking
and that could be a good bet for them to be placed there so very impressed with what i've seen of the
application so far and uh i i follow like red gregory she puts together some great overviews
of the application now i'm gonna leave apple notes last because i want to share my opinion on it but
zoho notes um is also one that i'm always impressed with i'm gonna put it in great i
don't know whether this is a new logo or not but it is very similar to what the logo was before
i think i saw it and i was like yeah they must have had a logo upgrade it's a great application
because they continue to refine it it's it's also free if you've got a zoho account and it's got
some small features like web clipper i would call it google keep on really effective google keep i
was gonna say on drugs but i didn't know whether they should say that or not but i think zoho
notebooks definitely are the great category and finally we have apple notes and this is actually
one that i'm the reason i want to talk about it's because it adds stuff to it every single year
that is great but in the end i think we'll all probably be using some form of apple google or
microsoft software for our experience just because i think they have the lead in the experience of
the artificial intelligence and i don't think other productivity applications will so i think
they obviously give them the advantage apple notes apple reminders we we could all be due to their
artificial intelligence abilities in the future be using all these applications and we would forget
about all the other property productivity in the market whilst i'm not going to rate it based on
that i definitely think still people should make a note of that i'm gonna put it in average of course
so that's my line up there amazing obsidian standard great runs from no plan agenda nimbus
bear notion rome and zoho good is ample notes again still impressed with evernote styles
workflowy and rem note in average in naf go one note keep apple notes and simple notes so guys i
hope you enjoyed the overview i've probably missed a couple of them let me know which applications
i've missed in the comments below i'd love to hear your opinion you can do this same thing that
i'm doing on the uh i think there's a link that i'll include that you can do it you can download
all of the apps i've mentioned as well um in the description below but a big thank you for stopping
by today and i hope they had a bit of a laugh i'm going to be doing this with calendar applications
email applications habit trackers crikey maybe even other apps outside of that as well to help
give you my opinion on these tools so guys a huge thank you i hope to see you all very soon and look
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