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Jack Stevens
Oct 14, 2026
Updates break more than fix
Promised features from the roadmap never arrived and the roadmap itself quietly disappeared from the website.
Promised features from the roadmap never arrived and the roadmap itself quietly disappeared from the website.
I was skeptical about yet another productivity app but this one earned a permanent spot in my dock. Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days. File transfer speeds surprised me when moving a ten gigabyte archive between my two machines over the local network.
File transfer speeds surprised me when moving a ten gigabyte archive between my two machines over the local network.
Dark theme uses proper contrast ratios so my eyes feel fine after an eight hour editing marathon. Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had.
Random logouts every single day interrupt my flow and the stay signed in checkbox is clearly cosmetic. Collaboration never works correctly because changes made by one person routinely overwrite the work of another without warning.
Native support for passkeys made me drop my password manager for everything inside this ecosystem.
I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had.
Terminal integration lets me launch new sessions tagged by project which keeps my shell history clean and searchable.
Workable for note taking yet unsuitable for structured project data because the schema layer is still immature.
An encrypted vault for shared credentials became the quiet backbone of our contractor onboarding process. Live cursors and comments on long documents feel smoother than any wiki I have used in the past decade.
Billing charged me twice for the same month and the refund took forty five days to appear in my account.
Decent search is held back by the lack of fuzzy matching so typos silently return empty result sets.
Setup finished in under five minutes and everything synced across my laptop phone and tablet without a single hiccup. It scales smoothly from my solo projects up to our shared startup workspace without any pricing surprises. I was skeptical about yet another productivity app but this one earned a permanent spot in my dock.
Dark patterns everywhere from the signup form to the cancellation flow which uses six screens to protect one checkbox.
Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint. An encrypted vault for shared credentials became the quiet backbone of our contractor onboarding process. I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide.
It scales smoothly from my solo projects up to our shared startup workspace without any pricing surprises. I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults.
Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration. Dark theme uses proper contrast ratios so my eyes feel fine after an eight hour editing marathon.
Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes.
After switching from a bloated enterprise tool my morning routine finally stopped including a reboot. Running this reduced average CPU usage on my laptop compared with the Electron based tool I used before.
Fast under light load however feature light compared with the competitor it is clearly trying to replace.
Plugin ecosystem is active without being overwhelming and the ones I installed have all been well maintained.
Updates land often which is good but sometimes they introduce new regressions that take weeks to see fixes.
Default export produces files I can archive without worrying about reading them a decade from now. Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs.
Encryption is enabled by default and the key management is simple enough that my less technical teammates adopted it quickly.
This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual.
Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long. Default export produces files I can archive without worrying about reading them a decade from now. Snappy on an old Android phone that struggles with everything else I install from the store these days.
Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup.
An hour of exploration unlocked more useful functionality than a week with the heavier competitor I used before.
Performance on older hardware is a disaster because the developers apparently only test on brand new machines. Memory leaks force me to restart the application at least twice a day during normal note taking workflows.
Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor. Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits.
A clean separation between data and interface meant I could migrate between major versions without losing anything. Zero bloat is a design philosophy you can feel in every menu and every settings panel.
Perfect for daily workflow in a way that very few tools achieve without demanding significant customization first.
Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box.
Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices.
Automation triggers hook into my existing shell scripts without any wrapper code which keeps my toolchain simple. Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on.
No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work. At this price point I expected cut corners but every feature feels considered and tested in real workflows.
Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings. No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work.
Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly.
Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf.
Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address.
Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits. Encryption is enabled by default and the key management is simple enough that my less technical teammates adopted it quickly.
Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on.
No ads no popups no upsells inside my daily workflow and the pricing page is refreshingly straightforward.
Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it. Offline mode genuinely works and I kept getting things done on a long flight with no internet connection at all. An encrypted vault for shared credentials became the quiet backbone of our contractor onboarding process.
Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency.
A critical security advisory was handled by posting a vague forum thread rather than contacting affected users. Battery drain was so severe that my phone died by lunch on the first day I installed this.
Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned. Native support for passkeys made me drop my password manager for everything inside this ecosystem.
I replaced three separate subscriptions after a week of using this and my monthly bill actually dropped noticeably. This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price.
This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price.