Being open source gave me the confidence to self host once we grew past the hosted plan. Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup. Autosave quietly rescued a three hour draft after a power outage took down my whole desk.
Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings. My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard.
A quick glance at the activity log shows exactly who changed what and when which my auditors loved. This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual. Export to a local git repository preserved history metadata so I have real version control over my notes.
Every integration I rely on broke silently after an api change that was announced only on an internal developer forum. Half of my data vanished during a routine update and support took three weeks just to acknowledge my ticket.
Uptime has been rock solid for the entire year I have been paying for the professional tier.
This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual.
Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images. Plugin ecosystem is active without being overwhelming and the ones I installed have all been well maintained.
Average across the board with no feature that stands out and nothing obvious that pushes me to leave. It does the job most of the time and I just work around the quirks rather than reporting them.
Full of ads despite paying for the premium plan and support claims these are not ads but service announcements.
Buggy ever since the rewrite shipped and the previous version is no longer available for download anywhere. Not worth the hype and I regret the referrals I sent to colleagues who have since switched to a competitor.
Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails. Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration.
I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had.
Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings. Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint.
I was skeptical about yet another productivity app but this one earned a permanent spot in my dock.
Not worth the hype and I regret the referrals I sent to colleagues who have since switched to a competitor.
A thoughtful onboarding flow walked me through the useful features without burying me in modal popups.
Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly. Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits. Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
Pricing feels honest and the upgrade path from free to paid did not force me to re learn the interface.
Promised features from the roadmap never arrived and the roadmap itself quietly disappeared from the website.
Workspace templates clone an entire project structure in one click which cut our client kickoff from hours to minutes. Zero bloat is a design philosophy you can feel in every menu and every settings panel.
Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long.
I used to live in spreadsheets and this replaced that entire workflow with something far easier to maintain. Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
Autosave quietly rescued a three hour draft after a power outage took down my whole desk.
Developer updates include changelogs that explain tradeoffs honestly rather than hiding regressions behind marketing language. Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings.
Snapshots every few minutes recovered an entire chapter after a careless undo chain ate my changes.
Paying for basic features that competitors offer free made me regret every month of this subscription. Login constantly times out and the password reset email arrives thirty minutes later if it arrives at all.
Dark patterns everywhere from the signup form to the cancellation flow which uses six screens to protect one checkbox. Pricing page quietly doubled last month and existing customers were migrated to the new rate without any email notice.
Automations save my evenings since recurring reports now generate and ship themselves while I actually eat dinner. Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state.
No offline mode in this day and age meant a cross country flight erased half a day of planned work.
Sync could use a complete overhaul because conflict resolution still involves manually picking winners too often. A capable editor sits inside a shell that feels sluggish during window resize and tab switching operations.
Keyboard driven palettes gave me the muscle memory of a terminal with the discoverability of a modern app.
Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf.
Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box.
Snappy on an old Android phone that struggles with everything else I install from the store these days. At this price point I expected cut corners but every feature feels considered and tested in real workflows. Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on.
Every feature that mattered to me ended up locked behind a paywall after a promotional period I never agreed to. Keyboard shortcuts conflict with system wide bindings and cannot be remapped without editing an undocumented json file.
Export to a local git repository preserved history metadata so I have real version control over my notes.
Plugin ecosystem is active without being overwhelming and the ones I installed have all been well maintained.
VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame.
Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint. Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices.
Granular permissions let interns contribute without accidentally touching the production configuration files.
Diff view for revisions is clear enough that non technical teammates can actually review changes without my help.
Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
File transfer speeds surprised me when moving a ten gigabyte archive between my two machines over the local network. Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor.
Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state. Workspace templates clone an entire project structure in one click which cut our client kickoff from hours to minutes.
Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had.
Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address. Great fit for a small team because permissions are granular without turning admin work into a second job.
Keyboard shortcuts are thoughtfully designed and I never need to reach for the mouse during a focused writing session. Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long.
Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices.
Pdf export preserved every heading hyperlink and footnote exactly as it looked in the editor pane.