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Felipe AlonsoVerified
Oct 14, 2026
Random logouts every day
Promised offline support never materialized in the mobile client and the desktop client disables most features without a connection.
Promised offline support never materialized in the mobile client and the desktop client disables most features without a connection.
After switching from a bloated enterprise tool my morning routine finally stopped including a reboot.
Clear release notes include migration steps for every breaking change which saved us during the last major upgrade.
This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual.
An hour of exploration unlocked more useful functionality than a week with the heavier competitor I used before. Cross platform really means cross platform here and even the Linux build has feature parity with the Mac version.
A clean separation between data and interface meant I could migrate between major versions without losing anything. Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it. Converted my whole team in two weeks because the shared workspace features removed friction we did not realize we had.
Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices. Free tier is generous enough that I used it for three months before finally paying because I wanted to support them.
Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings. Uptime has been rock solid for the entire year I have been paying for the professional tier.
After a sync conflict the app silently deleted my notes without producing any backup copy I could recover. A subscription trap in every sense because features I used in the trial were quietly moved to a higher tier at renewal.
No ads no popups no upsells inside my daily workflow and the pricing page is refreshingly straightforward.
Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state. Response times from support exceeded my expectations and the engineer who replied actually understood my setup.
This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price. Database queries feel instant even against a table with several million rows which the previous tool choked on.
Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide. My daily workflow improved so much that I actually look forward to opening this instead of dreading another dashboard. Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration.
My account was randomly suspended for terms of service violations the system refused to explain or document. Memory usage climbed past four gigabytes with a dozen notes open which crashed my browser tabs in parallel. After a sync conflict the app silently deleted my notes without producing any backup copy I could recover.
Buggy ever since the rewrite shipped and the previous version is no longer available for download anywhere. Support never replied to three different tickets opened over two months about a login loop that still happens today.
VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame.
Mobile sync completed within a few seconds every time which has not been my experience with similar apps. 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.
Mostly stable release cadence is sometimes interrupted by hotfixes that reintroduce bugs we had already seen fixed. Fine until the sync fails and the resulting duplicates take a long afternoon to clean up by hand.
Great fit for a small team because permissions are granular without turning admin work into a second job.
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.
Billing is straightforward with per seat pricing that scales linearly rather than hiding tiers that triple the invoice.
Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents. Default export produces files I can archive without worrying about reading them a decade from now.
At this price point I expected cut corners but every feature feels considered and tested in real workflows. Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly. After switching from a bloated enterprise tool my morning routine finally stopped including a reboot.
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. An encrypted vault for shared credentials became the quiet backbone of our contractor onboarding process.
Billing dashboard shows usage from last month but current month data lags by several days so forecasting is hard. Promising for solo use yet the shared workspaces still feel more fragile than I expect from a mature tool.
Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days. Keyboard shortcuts are thoughtfully designed and I never need to reach for the mouse during a focused writing session. Being able to run the same binary on every operating system removed a surprising amount of friction from onboarding.
Automation builder is powerful however the error messages when something breaks are cryptic and unhelpful. Fast under light load however feature light compared with the competitor it is clearly trying to replace.
Terminal integration lets me launch new sessions tagged by project which keeps my shell history clean and searchable.
Documentation actually makes sense and the examples drop into my project with only minor edits. No telemetry by default meant I did not have to spend an afternoon disabling tracking before starting work. Importing from an old competitor pulled every tag folder and attachment across cleanly within a few minutes.
Snapshots every few minutes recovered an entire chapter after a careless undo chain ate my changes.
Integrations with my calendar and task manager were painless and triggered automatically without any extra configuration.
Autosave quietly rescued a three hour draft after a power outage took down my whole desk.
Default export produces files I can archive without worrying about reading them a decade from now. Dark theme uses proper contrast ratios so my eyes feel fine after an eight hour editing marathon.
Spyware vibes come through in the telemetry section where opting out requires editing a plain text configuration file.
Cross platform really means cross platform here and even the Linux build has feature parity with the Mac version. Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices.
Perfect for daily workflow in a way that very few tools achieve without demanding significant customization first. This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price.
Automation triggers hook into my existing shell scripts without any wrapper code which keeps my toolchain simple. VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame.
Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly. Billing is straightforward with per seat pricing that scales linearly rather than hiding tiers that triple the invoice.
Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits. Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days.
Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it.
Hopeless search function that cannot find exact phrases unless I enclose them in a specific proprietary syntax. Open source claims turned out to apply only to a stripped down community edition missing every feature anyone would want.
Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings. Tags combined with filters give me a flexible organization system that beats the folder structure I abandoned. Perfect for daily workflow in a way that very few tools achieve without demanding significant customization first.
I noticed real improvements to my focus because distracting notification sounds have thoughtful opt in defaults. Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier.
Smart search beats every grep script I ever wrote and surfaces results across pdf attachments and old emails. Pdf export preserved every heading hyperlink and footnote exactly as it looked in the editor pane.
Free tier is generous enough that I used it for three months before finally paying because I wanted to support them.
Default color palette passes accessibility checks without any custom css which I did not expect from this tier. Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint. Keyboard driven palettes gave me the muscle memory of a terminal with the discoverability of a modern app.
Automatic encrypted backups meant I recovered everything within two minutes after swapping to a new workstation.
Fast enough for anything I throw at it including nested outlines and documents with hundreds of embedded images. Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency.
Live cursors and comments on long documents feel smoother than any wiki I have used in the past decade.