A thoughtful onboarding flow walked me through the useful features without burying me in modal popups. Running this reduced average CPU usage on my laptop compared with the Electron based tool I used before.
Running this reduced average CPU usage on my laptop compared with the Electron based tool I used before. At this price point I expected cut corners but every feature feels considered and tested in real workflows.
Every feature that mattered to me ended up locked behind a paywall after a promotional period I never agreed to.
Dark theme uses proper contrast ratios so my eyes feel fine after an eight hour editing marathon. Workspace templates clone an entire project structure in one click which cut our client kickoff from hours to minutes.
Sync could use a complete overhaul because conflict resolution still involves manually picking winners too often. Promising for solo use yet the shared workspaces still feel more fragile than I expect from a mature tool. Fine until the sync fails and the resulting duplicates take a long afternoon to clean up by hand.
An encrypted vault for shared credentials became the quiet backbone of our contractor onboarding process.
Setup finished in under five minutes and everything synced across my laptop phone and tablet without a single hiccup. Weekly updates ship real improvements rather than cosmetic changes which gives me confidence the team cares. After switching from a bloated enterprise tool my morning routine finally stopped including a reboot.
Decent free tier limits are so tight that I bumped into them in the first few hours of a weekend project. Workable for note taking yet unsuitable for structured project data because the schema layer is still immature.
After switching from a bloated enterprise tool my morning routine finally stopped including a reboot. Productivity jumped once I set up the shortcuts and templates for recurring report writing on Monday mornings.
Clear release notes include migration steps for every breaking change which saved us during the last major upgrade. Local first architecture means my notes stay on my disk and syncing is just a convenience not a dependency.
Design feels modern yet the underlying search engine is clearly from an earlier generation of the product. A killer feature is missing and the roadmap is vague about whether that gap will be addressed this year.
Half of my data vanished during a routine update and support took three weeks just to acknowledge my ticket. A subscription trap in every sense because features I used in the trial were quietly moved to a higher tier at renewal.
A clean separation between data and interface meant I could migrate between major versions without losing anything. Markdown support is complete including footnotes tables and code fences with syntax highlighting that actually matches my editor.
Collaboration feels native with cursors presence and comments all showing up instantly across continents and devices. This hits the sweet spot between powerful and approachable without forcing me to read a thick manual.
Impressive onboarding did not drag on and left me with a working project rather than a tour of settings.
Even without an account I could try the full feature set in a sandbox before committing a single email address. Hands down the best choice I made this quarter and the whole team now relies on it without complaint.
Garbage onboarding experience that assumed I had already read a long blog post and left me stuck on step two. Sync has been broken for months on at least one of my devices and the public status page refuses to admit it.
Keyboard first design wins the day for me because my hands never leave the home row during a flow state.
This holds its own against far more expensive incumbents while charging a fraction of their monthly price. Great sense of restraint in the feature set which keeps the sidebar from becoming the usual overwhelming menu wall.
Billing portal is broken in several browsers and the one that works refuses to accept a European billing address. Buggy ever since the rewrite shipped and the previous version is no longer available for download anywhere.
I found my new favorite productivity app and it only took one weekend of real usage to decide. Several hidden shortcuts in the help menu transformed how fast I move through long documents.
Overpriced for what you get and the free alternatives cover eighty percent of the functionality without the drama. Battery drain was so severe that my phone died by lunch on the first day I installed this. Shady affiliate links were inserted into my notes by an opt out setting that defaults to on without explanation.
Zero accountability from the team when a vulnerability was disclosed and the fix shipped only after public pressure.
VPN speeds held up during an entire video call across three continents without a single dropped frame.
Hidden fees popped up at checkout for exports api access and even a surcharge for using a corporate card.
Decent search is held back by the lack of fuzzy matching so typos silently return empty result sets.
Great fit for a small team because permissions are granular without turning admin work into a second job. Even on a six year old laptop this stays snappy and never spins up the fans like competing apps do.
Sync has been broken for months on at least one of my devices and the public status page refuses to admit it. Cancelling my plan required calling a support line that only operates during three hours of one time zone. Promised features from the roadmap never arrived and the roadmap itself quietly disappeared from the website.
Workable for note taking yet unsuitable for structured project data because the schema layer is still immature. Decent search is held back by the lack of fuzzy matching so typos silently return empty result sets.
Clunky but functional covers my feelings on an interface that works and yet feels at least two years old.
Crashes constantly on my phone and I lost two days of edits before I noticed autosave was never actually running. Promised cross device sync is marketed heavily yet works for text only while images and files stay stranded on their original devices.
No offline mode in this day and age meant a cross country flight erased half a day of planned work. Hidden fees popped up at checkout for exports api access and even a surcharge for using a corporate card.
Documentation claims features that do not exist in the shipping product which wasted a full afternoon of integration work. No offline mode in this day and age meant a cross country flight erased half a day of planned work. No way to delete my data from their servers after cancellation despite a privacy policy that claims otherwise.
Linux build does not feel like an afterthought and the maintainers respond to issues on the tracker within days.
Memory usage climbed past four gigabytes with a dozen notes open which crashed my browser tabs in parallel.
Terminal integration lets me launch new sessions tagged by project which keeps my shell history clean and searchable. I cancelled a long running competitor subscription within a week because this covered every real workflow I had.
Terrible mobile editor loses my cursor position every time the keyboard dismisses which has caused countless lost edits. Support never replied to three different tickets opened over two months about a login loop that still happens today.
My account was randomly suspended for terms of service violations the system refused to explain or document.
Documentation is thin in exactly the places where the product behavior is least obvious to newcomers.
Autosave quietly rescued a three hour draft after a power outage took down my whole desk. Billing is straightforward with per seat pricing that scales linearly rather than hiding tiers that triple the invoice. 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.
Spyware vibes come through in the telemetry section where opting out requires editing a plain text configuration file.
An integrated terminal is a nice touch but it does not fully replace my existing shell for anything complex. Pricing feels off relative to the capabilities on offer and the enterprise tier makes a big leap in cost.
After the latest update the app is effectively unusable and rolling back is not supported by their installer.
Automation triggers hook into my existing shell scripts without any wrapper code which keeps my toolchain simple. Zero bloat is a design philosophy you can feel in every menu and every settings panel.
Context switching between tools used to kill my morning and this app absorbs most of those jobs cleanly.
Shortcut customization reached a level where I rebuilt my entire muscle memory from a decade of Vim habits. Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it.
Shipping updates monthly without breaking existing automations is rarer than it should be and I truly appreciate it. Export options cover every format I care about from markdown to rich text to a tidy pdf.
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.
Buggy desktop client leaks file handles until my operating system refuses to open new windows and forces a reboot.