it's that time of year folks our list of the best note-taking applications 2023 I'm excited
to dive into this and help you pick your next note-taking application so welcome to
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all of the apps we're mentioning today so these aren't in a particular order there's no ranking
to this but let's dive into all of these apps so the first one is Evernote and Evernote has
been around the market for absolutely ages 2004 I think it was first initiated as an application
and it's just actually been acquired well it in the process of acquisition as we speak by an App
Maker called bending spoons we've got a full video on that if you want to dive in but Evernote is a
great all-round note-taking application it's got some great capture abilities it's got some really
in-depth abilities when it comes to building out your notes but also your tasks and calendar more
recently with the professional and Premium plan features that they do have it is a pretty nice
experience if you're looking to make sort of like a hub for your productivity and be able to embed
some tasks inside of your notes and calendar items but Evernote Still Remains probably one
of the most all-round productivity applications for notes in particular so next up is ample notes
and we've done a few features on ample notes and it's really grown since the last time we talked
about it much like Evernote it's including lots of tasks and lots of calendar abilities we'll mention
those in a moment but primarily ample notes is a great blend between a traditional note-taking
application and what people are calling PKM tools you're probably wondering what's the PKM tool it
means personal Knowledge Management but these PKM tools help you to connect OneNote to another note
and build a sort of relationship between them but ample node sort of does that but in more
of a traditional note-taking fashion now ampenote also adds something called tasks we all know tasks
but it takes it a step further with something called task score which essentially helps you
to rank your tasks based on importance and a few other attributes to give it a ranking which is
quite a cool little system to making sure that you understand what is important on your list and what
is not it's also got some calendar abilities and it's really grown out some of the core functions
including tables Etc inside of each of the notes that you take so an interesting development over
the last year from ample no so number three is Obsidian now obsidian again another really
popular one but much more popular with those who are PKM users that personal Knowledge Management
has gotten really popular and allowing you to connect one note to another is just a starting
point in obsidian you can map out your data or the notes that you created in what we call
a graph and a lot of people like obsidian because it's locally stored unless you upgrade to the sync
and publishability in your vaults which are stored on your Mac device which is pretty cool because a
lot of people like the fact that they have their notes locally stored and it's all on their device
versus being out in the cloud and obsidian has grown a big community in the last a couple of
years especially in a markdown space helping to people to create great relationships between their
notes and go further with their plugins and themes ability if you do want to learn obsidian we've got
a fantastic course on it which is probably one of the most popular courses in obsidian right now you
can check that out in the link in description so number four we have logseek now again
again very much like obsidian and Rome log Seekers grown in popularity with its Community being the
bustling place that it is online but logseek is a great open source experience for taking notes
and it really does have some great themes and abilities for connecting up notes and very much
like obsidian it runs a similar ship as that now if you want a full beginner's guide a 30-minute
tour of obsidian um sorry log seek we've actually done that with Dario de Silva if you want to check
out here in the channel so number five moving away from the more in-depth note-taking applications
there's one that is a markdown note-taking application called bear notes but bear notes
is a little bit more relaxed it's got an iOS and a Mac application and it's very much a well-designed
experience winning many plenty of Awards in the past but bear notes focuses on organizing your
notes based on a hashtag which is quite cool and it's definitely much more for for a simple Note
Taker over something that may be potentially more advanced like obsidian and logsy it's
great for creating recipes bringing your ideas together clipping stuff on the go but it's very
simplified in its layout and experience and what it says is nice sort of blend between Apple notes
and Evernote but in a small simplistic fashion number six is no shirt now we know notion as this
all-in-one experience and you can go a lot further with notion but a lot of people have found a great
hub for its notes and its more flexible nature with databases allowing you to create whatever
properties and sort of structure that you want for a note-taking application so it's greened a lot
of notoriety with people clipping stuff on the web but also people who like the read wise integration
as well for taking book summaries and notes as they're on their Kindle or their being able to
clip stuff on web and they've also got a great web Clipper notion do for being able to bring stuff
into a note-taking application and more recently they've launched database templates to help you to
carry recurring database templates which is perfect for journaling and creating routine
notes so notion has a great note-taking base and obviously has that layer up on many of these other
applications and allowing you to do much more in terms of manager projects manage your tasks
and be that all in one hub for your work number seven is standard notes now you may not have heard
of this one but it's very much a privacy focused note-taking application now to be honest it's sort
of like a blend between the likes of bear notes and Evernote a sort of mid-ground between them
but provides you with a very clean interface that is stored very much securely they use more focused
security I will post some of their security and privacy manifestos in the link in description but
it's very much much more in depth than you would expect in apps like Evernote and ample note and
things like that now standard notes has a pretty steep pricing and as in terms of like a five-year
pricing and things like that but it does have some great three themes and in-depth plugins if you're
looking to go further and sign up to their pricing plans so number eight is Google Keep now you may
know Google keep is a very simple note-taking experience I actually call it the Post-it notes
for the web allowing you to create little Post-it notes that you can create on your mobile device
and even on your Apple watches these days and it's a great little way to be able to create
short reminders reminder based stuff as well so tagging a note with a reminder and also be able to
take pictures and upload them and using AI using Google search engine you can actually find them
with just a search term so Google keep has gotten really popular with those who want a simple Note
Taker and a reliable one that is run by service like Google number nine is men now before we begin
this one we're actually an investor in mem but you can read the full statement and how that affects
our reviews here on keep productive below so mem is a more AI focused note-taking application but
to be honest it doesn't really know what it is yet it is a way to create notes and using their
Auto tagging and folders it sort of removes the aspect of organization from your system
now it does have some team sharing abilities which make it great for collaborating with
team members however as a note taker it's very simple it does have some functions like flow
to help you set up templates to help you create these templates from your notes a bit like daily
notes and craft which we'll talk about in a moment but mem is a interesting application
because it embeds AI allowing you to do some generative AI functions to be honest it's quite a
um a medium ground Note Taker right now but not as necessarily the note taker out of all of these I'd
recommend because it's slowly evolving to what it needs to be it doesn't have an iOS application yet
so do check it out below but as I said not necessarily something that is suitable for
everyone so moving on to number 10 and number 10 is clover you may not have heard of clover but it
is a notes project application it's a very strange one it acts very much like notion and Walling
again another sort of pseudo project note taking application but Clover allows you to organize all
of your notes and also use your apple pencil and some of the sketching abilities to go and blend
your notes with your drawings as well but it also has some of the functions like daily nodes
and linking that people do like in a note-taking application in the PKM space but Clover again is
a much more advanced structure than say you would get a sign of Evernote or obsidian it's much more
of a collaborative Note Taker than those a little bit like mem to some extent in the way that it's
positioning itself number 11 zoho's notebook now zero notebook is actually a more advanced Google
keep it presents a really nice experience some great audio capture functionality some great
Post-It note like capture functionality and as I said it's just more enhanced Google keep it
really does have a great Clipper and some great applications that come along with it so if you're
looking for something that's a blend between or in the Middle Ground between Google keep and
Evernote this is actually a good option moving on to number 12 which is craft now craft I would say
is a personal documents application but a lot of people are using it as a note-taking experience
and craft presents a really clean interface it works beautifully on iOS and mac and they're
releasing it on web and windows 2 and it's been growing in popularity due to the build quality and
experience it offers now you can create Pages inside of this and very much create
a structure like you would inside of notion but it does have great abilities with daily notes
in particular and linking stuff up too A lot of people like how you can create a craft document
share it and also keep it as your Daily Journal too and have Team functions on the side as well
so craft presents a great personal docs slash note-taking experience and one that's very well
built number 13 agenda notes now you might have heard of gender notes it's one many Apple Awards
in the past for its beautiful design and quality now gender notes present itself as a notes and a
calendar application because what it does like the name is try to present a way for you to associate
your notes to a calendar event it's calendar slash notes driven note-taking application if that makes
sense now this is perfect for scheduling um like for example associating notes to dates in the
future like for example if you've got something on your calendar like a meeting coming up or
you maybe got a holiday coming up and you're creating a pack list if you're somebody that
finds yourself associating dates with notes this might be the application for you and it's really
well designed and it does host a lot of stuff in the premium that you might like it's particularly
templates and things like that now number 14 is super notes supernotes is a really well designed
application but it's much more targeted towards students because it's focused on more flash card
based nodes connecting them up and also being able to share them with other people and collaborate
but whilst it's grained a lot of popularity in the student space it's also gained a lot of popularity
with those who are using it as a note-taking application but one that doesn't necessarily
go as deep as say obsidian and log seek and has a really friendly interface like Evernote so
it's sort of a middle ground between those ones but supernotes growing in popularity and it does
look really beautiful number 15 we have REM note this is much more focused towards students it's
flash card based and presents itself as a more serious student-focused version of supernotes
going that step further and really helping you to really use that active recall in helping you to
remember study cards and collaborating with others now some people do use it as an obsidian logseek
and Rome alternative but it does present itself as more of a flash card note-taking application
that can help you to organize research and ideas and student-based work in one application and
finally we have probably missed a few I'll mention that in a moment but zenkit hyper notes this is a
really simple way to create notes but also limit them to other notes it is built by the folks at
zenkit they got a suite of applications already like zenkit to do which is a popular to-do list
application but hypernotes is a nice blend between the likes of Evernote and again a bigger PKM talk
like obsidian it won't give you the in-depth and abilities as we'd expect in ample note or
log seek but it does give you a fair few features for being able to take notes and collaborate with
others so hypernotes a good alternative as a good minimal but easy to use PKM tool a much more front
um sort of easy getting started versus the more intense the obsidian and long seat which a lot
of people know already so we may have missed a fair few note-taking applications here but
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