The Best Note Taking Apps, according to the IH Community
Last week I created a post asking the Indie Hackers community what the best note taking apps were.
The response was great.
130+ comments later these are the findings:
Sentiment
→ Everyone has different needs based on their workflows and finding a one size fits all Notes app is very difficult.
→ Many like to have multiple notes apps for different purposes eg: ideas vs writing vs workflow.
→ People want staying power and an app that will stand the test of time. Being able to access notes in the future is important.
→ People want control of their data and to know where it is being stored.
The Most popular Note Taking Apps
bytebase.io got a lot of praise from Indie Hackers very own @cara
Bear App was another very popular choice
Notion.so is used by many for all sorts of notes
evernote.com/ is a well established staple for others
roamresearch.com/ got some hype as a tool for networked thought
workflowy.com/ was praised for its simplicity
Simplenote.com is a favourite for many
Typora is popular for converting markdown
Others also like to stick to the more traditional note taking apps
→ Onenote
→ Google Docs
→ Trello
→ Google Keep
→ Mac Notes
Many Indie Hackers are working on creating their own Note Taking Apps.
Some Indie Hackers Community Honourable Mentions
Tasquet from @tuttieee
Minutes from @jorgevmendoza
Fulcrum.wiki from @rockiger
Popnotes from @gabth
EmailMeApp from @manuelescrig
Noteplan from @eduardme
Notebag from @pretzelhds
TaskClone from @troychristmas
ThoughtTrain from @marcperel
WeNote from @yccheok
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Thanks for the mention @gordon! Many great options 👏
No worries at all @manuelescrig. Thanks for sharing your product.
Thank you! That's really helpful!
Glad you found it helpful!
Going to plug my product for note-taking as well. If you're a developer, I made CoderNotes specifically for you. It offers an IDE-like experience (syntax highlighting, auto-brackets, even errors and message in some languages), and a really powerful search engine.
Check it out!
Thanks for sharing this @Kevcon80. I am no developer but this looks like a neat little product. Keep up the great work!
Notational velocity, linking works similar to Roam research.
https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
Thanks for sharing @leoriobrahm
Don't forget about Zettlr
Looks great @aqui_c. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the mention @gordon! It's been invaluable to get the community's feedback :)
Pleasure @cara ! Keep up the great work!
I recently launched https://nums.app. It's a workflowy like outliner with a builtin calculator twist. Please check it out.
Thanks for sharing this @zeeyang. This looks interesting. Looks like it could be helpful for budgeting and project planning. Have you thought about marketing it to enterprise customers?
To be honest I have no idea how to position this for enterprise. Any tips is welcome.
It pains me to see that Joplin is not mentioned in those kind of lists. https://joplinapp.org
Haha thanks for the recommendation @rasulkireev !
Nice summary! That’s what I hear from my users as well for reference apps to take ideas from 😅
For sure @eduardme. It is hard to get one that fits every need!
In term of free-to-use app, which is the best?
I think you can't go wrong with Notion.so for free use @NinjaTeam. My MacNotes App will always get great use too.
Thank you for summarizing very wide variety of note apps (including mine 😉)! It's so helpful.
Let me point out one thing - the links to Tasquet, Minutes and Notebag look broken. They are linked to IndieHackers site.
P.S. I'm open to answer any questions about Tasquet!
Thanks for noting this @tuttieee. I'll fix these now!
@gordon thanks for the mention in this great notes taking list, I agree it is hard to find a silver bullet solution but there are plenty of options
You're welcome @jorgevmendoza. Absolutely. I think that is why so many of us use more that one of the above!
Hi @gordon!
Thanks for the shout out! Really helps to gain visibility in the ocean that is the note taking market. So many choices, so little time!~
If anyone has questions about Notebag I'll be around to answer them ✨
Also I noticed that the link in the post just goes back to IndieHackers. Would be super great if you could fix that :)
You are very welcome @pretzelhds. I have fixed the link now also :)
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