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Sanjay SuriVerified
Oct 15, 2026
Developer actually ships updates
Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps. My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard. Workspace templates clone an entire project structure in one click which cut our client kickoff from hours to minutes.
Mostly good with recurring bugs that reopen weeks after being marked resolved on the public tracker.
Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings. A quiet revelation to realize my morning startup script now takes seconds instead of the minute it used to require.
Clear release notes include migration steps for every breaking change which saved us during the last major upgrade. Developer updates include changelogs that explain tradeoffs honestly rather than hiding regressions behind marketing language. Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address.
I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had. Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares.
Being able to run the same binary on every operating system removed a surprising amount of friction from onboarding. Importing from an old competitor pulled every tag folder and attachment across cleanly within a few minutes. Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs.
I used to live in spreadsheets and this replaced that entire workflow with something far easier to maintain. Zero bloat is a design philosophy you can feel in every menu and every settings panel.
Zero bloat is a design philosophy you can feel in every menu and every settings panel.
Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf.
Encryption is enabled by default and the key management is simple enough that my less technical teammates adopted it quickly. Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency. Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier.
Diff view for revisions is clear enough that non technical teammates can actually review changes without my help. Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on.
Being open source gave me the confidence to self host once we grew past the hosted plan. Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf.
Live cursors and comments on long documents feel smoother than any wiki I have used in the past decade. No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work. Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup.
Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails. Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box.
Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits. Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor.
Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long. Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup. Being able to run the same binary on every operating system removed a surprising amount of friction from onboarding.
Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits. Encryption is enabled by default and the key management is simple enough that my less technical teammates adopted it quickly.
Keyboard driven palettes gave me the muscle memory of a terminal with the discoverability of a modern app.
Great fit for a small team because permissions are granular without turning admin work into a second job. Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes.
Granular permissions let interns contribute without accidentally touching the production configuration files. Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint.
Okay for the price if you can tolerate the occasional sync hiccup during peak usage windows.
Fast under light load however feature light compared with the competitor it is clearly trying to replace. Capable tool with a confusing information architecture that forces me to hunt for settings I touched yesterday. Reliable syncing on wifi becomes unpredictable on cellular networks which is strange for a mobile first product.
Setup finished in under five minutes and everything synced across my laptop phone and tablet without a single hiccup.
Running this reduced average CPU usage on my laptop compared with the Electron based tool I used before. File transfer speeds surprised me when moving a ten gigabyte archive between my two machines over the local network. Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
Buggy ever since the rewrite shipped and the previous version is no longer available for download anywhere. Shady affiliate links were inserted into my notes by an opt out setting that defaults to on without explanation.
A killer feature is missing and the roadmap is vague about whether that gap will be addressed this year.
Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency.
Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor.
Paying for basic features that competitors offer free made me regret every month of this subscription. After a sync conflict the app silently deleted my notes without producing any backup copy I could recover.
Great sense of restraint in the feature set which keeps the sidebar from becoming the usual overwhelming menu wall.
Pdf export preserved every heading hyperlink and footnote exactly as it looked in the editor pane. Uptime has been rock solid for the entire year I have been paying for the professional tier.
Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier. Live cursors and comments on long documents feel smoother than any wiki I have used in the past decade.
Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned. Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images.
Perfect for daily workflow in a way that very few tools achieve without demanding significant customization first.
Autosave failed silently during a long session and recovering drafts from the local cache was not possible at all.
Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days.
Billing is straightforward with per seat pricing that scales linearly rather than hiding tiers that triple the invoice. Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails. Default export produces files I can archive without worrying about reading them a decade from now.
VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame. I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults.
This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price. Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings.
Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices. Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned.
Zero accountability from the team when a vulnerability was disclosed and the fix shipped only after public pressure. A critical security advisory was handled by posting a vague forum thread rather than contacting affected users.
Promised cross device sync is marketed heavily yet works for text only while images and files stay stranded on their original devices.
Pricing feels honest and the upgrade path from free to paid did not force me to re learn the interface. Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly.
A quiet revelation to realize my morning startup script now takes seconds instead of the minute it used to require.
Automations save my evenings since recurring reports now generate and ship themselves while I actually eat dinner. Perfect for daily workflow in a way that very few tools achieve without demanding significant customization first.
No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work. Cross platform really means cross platform here and even the Linux build has feature parity with the Mac version.
Plugin ecosystem is active without being overwhelming and the ones I installed have all been well maintained. Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long.
Native support for passkeys made me drop my password manager for everything inside this ecosystem.
Keyboard shortcuts are thoughtfully designed and I never need to reach for the mouse during a focused writing session. Autosave quietly rescued a three hour draft after a power outage took down my whole desk. Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps.