Olivia

Really loving this new second brain sub-category! Excited to see how this stacks up with Mem and Lazy (both of which I have pain points with) as time goes on Some things I noticed right off the bat: - Clean interface! - Thinkpad is very cool - haven't had much time to play around with it yet but I'm excited to see how it works - Ability to search in spaces is a nice touch I don't see all competitors adopting - AI suggestions on the homepage are actually useful!! And a great way to prompt people who might not know what to search - I copy-pasted a few bullet pointed lists (separated by line) into Supermemory. When reviewing in the import editor, I saw that they displayed as expected, but after import the lists were inline and no longer separated by line break. Keep in mind I saved the memory without using the markdown editor, but I'd expect the preview to look the same as the saved memory, regardless. - Can't edit memories!! Rather than creating a separate memory/space for each thing II want to remember, there are some memories I'd prefer to go back and edit. For example, I have a "Food" space where I store memories about flavor pairings and food I want to try. In this space I have a note called "Cuisines to try" which I'd like to be able to update regularly as I add-on/cross off things on that list. It wouldn't make much sense for me to dedicate a space just to this note since it's pretty specific, so I'd prefer to go back and edit it as I see fit. Also, if I notice a typo in a memory I made, I'd like the option to go back and address it!

While GoodNotes is a longtime favorite, and their app has been wonderful up to this point, GoodNotes 6 introduces subscription pricing with features that don't add much to the note-taking experience.

Functional, minimalist. and easy with markdown support. Less is more sometimes--the best in its category, in my opinion. Downside is it doesn't look like it's being supported anymore. (Still working like a charm though!)

Used this throughout my school career. There are many similar apps that don't put in quite as much attention to detail or overthink the problem by trying to address it with too many features (killing the minimalism, which is the point). iA Writer is quite literally a game changer and simplicity at its finest.

- Incredibly useful for those of us who visualize in timelines - Easy to pickup the "language" - Ability to export your data as a file 🥳 - Maybe a little tech-y for your average Joe who won't want to look at the documentation, but no complaints from me!

- Visually stunning, straightforward interface - Reconnect cadence is flexible and very useful - Notes on contacts 🙌🏻 - Ambiguous AI features: maybe I'm not the target audience for this, but I haven't found and need to sort through my contacts in any way beyond groupings or notes

Wonderful recipe management app that I use every day, as a hobby chef! Great points: - Devs always try to integrate new features (live activity support very soon after the feature was released) - Meal plan view WITH notes - Still adding new features (sections for meals in meal plan view) - Attention to detail features that elevate the app as a whole (clicking an amount of time in a recipe gives you the option to set a timer, clicking in ingredient in a recipe quickly gives you the amount) - Clean interface (a pioneer in this in the recipe app community!) - Relatively bug-free - Tags AND folders 🙌🏻 - Ability to export recipes into visually appealing PDFs/other formats Potential pain points (I'm biased because I use this app every day and have thoroughly explored it): - Some things don't work as smoothly as you'd expect them to and feel like they might have been overlooked (if you try to filter by tags in any folder view the keyboard blocks half the screen in iOS, the recipe import feature is lacking at times even on the subscription plan; if you give crouton the URL for some websites it won't auto-populate any fields (including the URL), if you've already started recipe(s) you can't scale the ingredients (meaning you have to exit the recipe to scale the ingredients and your progress will be cleared)) - Quickly inputting recipes could be easier (you can right click to turn a step into a section but you can't do this for ingredients, no markdown/keyboard shortcut support to quickly create a section, no markdown support in notes) - Nutrition information could be easier to read (it sits as a plain text list)