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Natalie Price
Oct 15, 2026
Sync just works
Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had.
Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had.
Snappy on an old Android phone that struggles with everything else I install from the store these days. Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps. Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long.
I am still deciding if this is my daily driver because the keyboard support is uneven between views. This could be my daily driver after a few more fixes to the collaboration layer and the mobile app. Fine as a note sink but the search ranking surfaces old irrelevant matches before recent ones which frustrates me.
Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings.
Random logouts every single day interrupt my flow and the stay signed in checkbox is clearly cosmetic. Memory leaks force me to restart the application at least twice a day during normal note taking workflows.
Encryption is enabled by default and the key management is simple enough that my less technical teammates adopted it quickly.
Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits. Being open source gave me the confidence to self host once we grew past the hosted plan. Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had.
Running this reduced average CPU usage on my laptop compared with the Electron based tool I used before.
Pdf export preserved every heading hyperlink and footnote exactly as it looked in the editor pane. Autosave quietly rescued a three hour draft after a power outage took down my whole desk.
VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame. Billing is straightforward with per seat pricing that scales linearly rather than hiding tiers that triple the invoice.
Automations save my evenings since recurring reports now generate and ship themselves while I actually eat dinner.
Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly.
Autosave failed silently during a long session and recovering drafts from the local cache was not possible at all. Spyware vibes come through in the telemetry section where opting out requires editing a plain text configuration file. Performance on older hardware is a disaster because the developers apparently only test on brand new machines.
Mobile parity is real and I can actually complete the same tasks on my phone that I do at my desk. Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf.
Average performance when my library stays small and noticeable slowdown once I crossed a few thousand entries.
Codebase appears clean because the UI never surprises me with inconsistent behavior between windows and dialogs. Automatic encrypted backups meant I recovered everything within two minutes after swapping to a new workstation.
Automatic encrypted backups meant I recovered everything within two minutes after swapping to a new workstation. Perfect for daily workflow in a way that very few tools achieve without demanding significant customization first. A clean separation between data and interface meant I could migrate between major versions without losing anything.
Learning curve is steeper than the marketing suggests and the official tutorials skip over the hard parts.
Zero accountability from the team when a vulnerability was disclosed and the fix shipped only after public pressure.
Battery impact is barely measurable even when I leave the app running in the background all day long.
Setup finished in under five minutes and everything synced across my laptop phone and tablet without a single hiccup. Being able to run the same binary on every operating system removed a surprising amount of friction from onboarding. Developer updates include changelogs that explain tradeoffs honestly rather than hiding regressions behind marketing language.
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. 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.
Collaboration never works correctly because changes made by one person routinely overwrite the work of another without warning. Hopeless search function that cannot find exact phrases unless I enclose them in a specific proprietary syntax.
A subscription trap in every sense because features I used in the trial were quietly moved to a higher tier at renewal. Promised cross device sync is marketed heavily yet works for text only while images and files stay stranded on their original devices. After the latest redesign the simplest tasks now require three clicks that used to need one single keystroke.
Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address. Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits. Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices.
Terrible mobile editor loses my cursor position every time the keyboard dismisses which has caused countless lost edits. No offline mode in this day and age meant a cross country flight erased half a day of planned work.
It does the job most of the time and I just work around the quirks rather than reporting them.
I was skeptical about yet another productivity app but this one earned a permanent spot in my dock. Dark theme uses proper contrast ratios so my eyes feel fine after an eight hour editing marathon.
Overpriced for what you get and the free alternatives cover eighty percent of the functionality without the drama.
Documentation is thin in exactly the places where the product behavior is least obvious to newcomers. Clunky but functional covers my feelings on an interface that works and yet feels at least two years old.
Zero bloat is a design philosophy you can feel in every menu and every settings panel. Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had.
Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits. Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails.
An hour of exploration unlocked more useful functionality than a week with the heavier competitor I used before. Default export produces files I can archive without worrying about reading them a decade from now.
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.
Pricing feels honest and the upgrade path from free to paid did not force me to re learn the interface.
Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images. Workspace templates clone an entire project structure in one click which cut our client kickoff from hours to minutes.
I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide. Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on.
After a sync conflict the app silently deleted my notes without producing any backup copy I could recover.
After the latest redesign the simplest tasks now require three clicks that used to need one single keystroke. Overpriced for what you get and the free alternatives cover eighty percent of the functionality without the drama. Every integration I rely on broke silently after an api change that was announced only on an internal developer forum.
It scales smoothly from my solo projects up to our shared startup workspace without any pricing surprises. Automation triggers hook into my existing shell scripts without any wrapper code which keeps my toolchain simple.
File transfer speeds surprised me when moving a ten gigabyte archive between my two machines over the local network. Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days.
Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
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.
Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails. A thoughtful onboarding flow walked me through the useful features without burying me in modal popups.
Performance on older hardware is a disaster because the developers apparently only test on brand new machines. Login constantly times out and the password reset email arrives thirty minutes later if it arrives at all.
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. Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned.