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Ji-ah Son
Oct 14, 2026
Dark theme is gorgeous
Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits. Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier.
Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier.
Plugin ecosystem is active without being overwhelming and the ones I installed have all been well maintained.
My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard. This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual.
Random logouts every single day interrupt my flow and the stay signed in checkbox is clearly cosmetic.
Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits.
Great sense of restraint in the feature set which keeps the sidebar from becoming the usual overwhelming menu wall.
Automations save my evenings since recurring reports now generate and ship themselves while I actually eat dinner. Being open source gave me the confidence to self host once we grew past the hosted plan. Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings.
Promised offline support never materialized in the mobile client and the desktop client disables most features without a connection.
Offline mode genuinely works and I kept getting things done on a long flight with no internet connection at all.
Autosave quietly rescued a three hour draft after a power outage took down my whole desk.
Each update breaks more than it fixes and the release notes are now hidden behind a login wall.
Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor.
Pricing feels honest and the upgrade path from free to paid did not force me to re learn the interface. Mobile parity is real and I can actually complete the same tasks on my phone that I do at my desk.
Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address.
Templates saved me hours this week alone because the project boilerplate matches our internal style guide exactly. Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes. 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.
Diff view for revisions is clear enough that non technical teammates can actually review changes without my help.
Promising for solo use yet the shared workspaces still feel more fragile than I expect from a mature tool. Honest free tier covers hobby use well however any team work rapidly bumps into the collaborator limit.
After switching from a bloated enterprise tool my morning routine finally stopped including a reboot.
Mobile editing feels like an afterthought even though the marketing pitches full feature parity across devices.
Cross platform really means cross platform here and even the Linux build has feature parity with the Mac version.
A quick glance at the activity log shows exactly who changed what and when which my auditors loved. At this price point I expected cut corners but every feature feels considered and tested in real workflows.
Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf. Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on. Offline mode genuinely works and I kept getting things done on a long flight with no internet connection at all.
Running this reduced average CPU usage on my laptop compared with the Electron based tool I used before. Templates saved me hours this week alone because the project boilerplate matches our internal style guide exactly.
This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price. I replaced three separate subscriptions after a week of using this and my monthly bill actually dropped noticeably.
Terminal integration lets me launch new sessions tagged by project which keeps my shell history clean and searchable.
Free tier is generous enough that I used it for three months before finally paying because I wanted to support them. Zero bloat is a design philosophy you can feel in every menu and every settings panel.
Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes. Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits.
I used to live in spreadsheets and this replaced that entire workflow with something far easier to maintain.
An hour of exploration unlocked more useful functionality than a week with the heavier competitor I used before. Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration.
Billing is straightforward with per seat pricing that scales linearly rather than hiding tiers that triple the invoice. A quiet revelation to realize my morning startup script now takes seconds instead of the minute it used to require.
Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly. Default export produces files I can archive without worrying about reading them a decade from now.
Serviceable with gaps around import and export that force me to keep a backup tool installed anyway. A killer feature is missing and the roadmap is vague about whether that gap will be addressed this year. Impressive on paper and uneven in practice because the showcase features polished in demos are brittle elsewhere.
Workable but not elegant describes most of my sessions and the elegance I crave shows up only occasionally. Core functionality is solid but there are rough edges around the mobile experience that have not been polished yet.
I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had.
Granular permissions let interns contribute without accidentally touching the production configuration files.
Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration. Being able to run the same binary on every operating system removed a surprising amount of friction from onboarding.
Shady affiliate links were inserted into my notes by an opt out setting that defaults to on without explanation. Imports lost every bit of formatting including code blocks and tables that were perfectly fine in the source file.
Interesting but incomplete at this stage and I would wait a quarter before deploying it across a whole team. A capable editor sits inside a shell that feels sluggish during window resize and tab switching operations.
Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs. Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned.
Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings. Dark theme uses proper contrast ratios so my eyes feel fine after an eight hour editing marathon.
Keyboard driven palettes gave me the muscle memory of a terminal with the discoverability of a modern app. I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults.
Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned. 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.
Native support for passkeys made me drop my password manager for everything inside this ecosystem.
Importing from an old competitor pulled every tag folder and attachment across cleanly within a few minutes.
A critical security advisory was handled by posting a vague forum thread rather than contacting affected users. Random logouts every single day interrupt my flow and the stay signed in checkbox is clearly cosmetic.
Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps.