A quiet revelation to realize my morning startup script now takes seconds instead of the minute it used to require. Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned. Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address.
I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults.
Memory leaks force me to restart the application at least twice a day during normal note taking workflows. Documentation claims features that do not exist in the shipping product which wasted a full afternoon of integration work. Dark patterns everywhere from the signup form to the cancellation flow which uses six screens to protect one checkbox.
Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup. Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes. Pricing feels honest and the upgrade path from free to paid did not force me to re learn the interface.
Snapshots every few minutes recovered an entire chapter after a careless undo chain ate my changes.
I was skeptical about yet another productivity app but this one earned a permanent spot in my dock. Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares.
A quick glance at the activity log shows exactly who changed what and when which my auditors loved.
Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps. An encrypted vault for shared credentials became the quiet backbone of our contractor onboarding process.
Sync has been broken for months on at least one of my devices and the public status page refuses to admit it. Random logouts every single day interrupt my flow and the stay signed in checkbox is clearly cosmetic. Support never replied to three different tickets opened over two months about a login loop that still happens today.
Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits. Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do. Live cursors and comments on long documents feel smoother than any wiki I have used in the past decade.
An hour of exploration unlocked more useful functionality than a week with the heavier competitor I used before.
Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint. Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days. Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings.
Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days.
Pricing feels honest and the upgrade path from free to paid did not force me to re learn the interface. Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it.
Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images.
I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide. Being open source gave me the confidence to self host once we grew past the hosted plan. Offline mode genuinely works and I kept getting things done on a long flight with no internet connection at all.
Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on. Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint. Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it.
Cross platform really means cross platform here and even the Linux build has feature parity with the Mac version.
It scales smoothly from my solo projects up to our shared startup workspace without any pricing surprises.
File transfer speeds surprised me when moving a ten gigabyte archive between my two machines over the local network.
Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
Fine as a note sink but the search ranking surfaces old irrelevant matches before recent ones which frustrates me. I am hopeful about the roadmap and the team communicates well in their public forum which helps a lot. Reasonable choice with some caveats including a free tier that cuts off right where it starts to be useful.
Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails. This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price.
No ads no popups no upsells inside my daily workflow and the pricing page is refreshingly straightforward. Export to a local git repository preserved history metadata so I have real version control over my notes. Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration.
Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor.
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. Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits. Granular permissions let interns contribute without accidentally touching the production configuration files.
Keyboard shortcuts are thoughtfully designed and I never need to reach for the mouse during a focused writing session. Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier.
Export to a local git repository preserved history metadata so I have real version control over my notes. Keyboard shortcuts are thoughtfully designed and I never need to reach for the mouse during a focused writing session.
Importing from an old competitor pulled every tag folder and attachment across cleanly within a few minutes. Mobile parity is real and I can actually complete the same tasks on my phone that I do at my desk.
Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it.
Fine on desktop and awkward on mobile where the touch targets feel too small for actual thumbs.
Searching across attachments pulled quotes from pdf invoices as reliably as from plain text notes. Workspace templates clone an entire project structure in one click which cut our client kickoff from hours to minutes.
Granular export control meant our legal team could share only the exact subset of records they needed. Dark theme uses proper contrast ratios so my eyes feel fine after an eight hour editing marathon.
Being able to run the same binary on every operating system removed a surprising amount of friction from onboarding. This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual. Snapshots every few minutes recovered an entire chapter after a careless undo chain ate my changes.
I am still deciding if this is my daily driver because the keyboard support is uneven between views.
Granular permissions let interns contribute without accidentally touching the production configuration files. Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps.
Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency.
Overpriced for what you get and the free alternatives cover eighty percent of the functionality without the drama. No way to delete my data from their servers after cancellation despite a privacy policy that claims otherwise.
Paying for basic features that competitors offer free made me regret every month of this subscription.
Not worth the hype and I regret the referrals I sent to colleagues who have since switched to a competitor. Autosave failed silently during a long session and recovering drafts from the local cache was not possible at all. Upsell popups appeared mid sentence while I was typing and dismissed buttons were deliberately buried below the fold.
At this price point I expected cut corners but every feature feels considered and tested in real workflows. A quick glance at the activity log shows exactly who changed what and when which my auditors loved.
My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard. Diff view for revisions is clear enough that non technical teammates can actually review changes without my help.
Free tier is generous enough that I used it for three months before finally paying because I wanted to support them. Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor. Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency.
Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state.
Easy on the eyes with sensible defaults for typography line height and contrast that work out of the box. My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard. Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits.
Autosave quietly rescued a three hour draft after a power outage took down my whole desk. I was skeptical about yet another productivity app but this one earned a permanent spot in my dock. Being open source gave me the confidence to self host once we grew past the hosted plan.
I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had.
Being open source gave me the confidence to self host once we grew past the hosted plan.
Great fit for a small team because permissions are granular without turning admin work into a second job. VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame.