It’s a perfect example of the everything bucket. It originally launched in 2008 as a web service and has added clients to pretty much every platform over the years. EvernoteĮvernote is one of those apps I sort of don’t remember not existing. Based on the experience I’ve had with note-taking apps for the Mac, I came up with six great options depending on what’s important to you. When looking at the best note-taking app for the Mac, the factors that are important for me are: ability to organize in folders/tags, speed of search, and ease of adding new notes from other apps. On the iPad, handwriting integration with Apple Pencil might take priority. On the iPhone, speed of starting a new note might take priority. When looking at macOS note-taking apps, your needs may look drastically different from what you’ll want on iPhone and iPad. I’ll run through a few of the apps, and then I’ll help you figure out which will be the best note-taking app for you to try. Most of the apps offer free trials, so I advise you to check them all out. I’ve used dozens of apps over the years, and I have opinions on what a note-taking app for Mac should look like for my use cases. When I am looking for the best note-taking app for the Mac, I am looking for a few different things: sync to iOS (and web if possible), easy to add new notes, and easy to look up existing notes. You then have apps like Bear and Apple Notes which aim to live somewhere in the middle. There are apps like Evernote which aim to be an “everything” bucket and apps like SimpleNote that only handle plain text notes. Which to me was the original philosophy of the app, and what drew me to it.Īt any rate, I suspect your wish of being able to use nvALT and Drafts in concert is going to require a lot of hacks and workarounds.Note taking apps for Mac are a fun category to look at because of the variety of options on the market. But the app is becoming more complex with features that are of little appeal to me as someone who mostly needs to capture text and use it somewhere else. Maybe a social media post or email message here and there. I’m primarily interested in custom actions and text file appending. In particular, I am not interested the advanced file/note management stuff.Īs it stands, the free version is too limited and the subscription version is way overboard for my needs.īut like I said, I think Drafts is moving towards a “system” and away from a “tool”. I’d like to see tiers of subscriptions (or a one-time purchase to unlock), and have another feature set (“Drafts Plus”?) which offered a subset of features for those of us who want to use some of the Drafts 5 features, but not all. I feel like with Drafts 5, the software is moving away from being a text utility tool and towards a proprietary service. I’ve just been trapped too many times in the past and migrating data to the next new system is always a big pain. I am sure Greg will bring as much functionality and attention to detail as he has for the iOS versions.īut I find myself leaning less and less on Drafts in my workflow so as to maintain my setup being as free as possible from software lock-in. I’d love to be able to use Drafts to manage them, but I want my files as plain-text and accessible by any means at my disposal.įor those that are OK with everything being with the proprietary Drafts ecosystem, Drafts for Mac will likely be ideal. I use Drafts primarily to quickly capture and append notes in that setup. It’s why I ditched Evernote and set up my own system in the first place. I’ve fully migrated my note system to a Dropbox/nvALT/Atom/1Writer plain-text setup, and having my database restricted to Drafts doesn’t appeal to me. Yeah that’s my main hangup about expanding my use of Drafts for iOS/Mac.
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