About
Everything here
was actually used.
Note-app roundups mostly praise the same features in the same order, which is what happens when a review is written from a pricing page and a ten-minute trial.
Why This Exists
I have migrated my notes between apps more times than is reasonable, and the things that eventually made me leave were never in any review. Search that degrades past a few thousand notes. Sync that quietly loses a paragraph. Export that technically works but produces unusable files.
None of that shows up in a ten-minute trial. It shows up in week three, which is why nothing gets written about here until week three.
How I Test
My real notes go in, all of them, and stay there long enough for the app to annoy me. I use it for actual work rather than a demo, because the failure modes only appear under real weight.
When I stop using something, I say so and I say why. An app I abandoned is more informative than one I liked, and most reviews never tell you about those.
What You Will Not Find Here
- Reviews written from the features page
- Aggregate scores out of ten
- Rankings that move when someone starts an affiliate programme
- The same eight apps in the same order as everyone else
Who Writes It
Kevin Gabeci. I write software and keep an unreasonable number of notes, which is how this became a hobby with a domain attached.
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