30 Alternatives to Better Notes
When inspiration happens, put it on Paper. Paper is the best way to capture and connect your notes, photos, and sketches. Create checklists, spotlight details in photos, and sketch diagrams with unbeatable speed and ease — Paper is like a wall of sticky notes for everything that inspires you.
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Yigit Pinarbasi- Freelance UI / UX Designer
I'm using Paper and I'm so happy. So quick to use and easy to take notes, make lists etc.
Kunal Bhatia- Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp
I love what FiftyThree has done with their products, especially Paper and Think Kit. Not sure how you take notes, but these apps changed my whole approach to taking notes. I think more visually and try to do more sketch notes. With Paste by FiftyThree, soon you can bring your notes to collaborate with your Slack team. This type of interaction makes notetakin… See moreKunal Bhatia- Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp
I love the thinking behind the new version of Paper. You can draw and have it replace your poorly drawn shapes into nice rectangles, squares, and circles. This is perfect for note-taking, sketching quick ideas in a meeting, and low-fi wireframing.Bear is a beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose. It works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so you can write wherever inspiration strikes.
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Venetia Chou- Product Designer at YOSGO Inc.
Bullet journal is a great way for me to arrange what I am gonna do. Bear is exactly the great place where I can make the best use of this method! Its markup editor, tag system and focus mode helps me boost my productivity. Highly recommended!
necroshadow- A G4M3R
It's simple, has simple styles, and you don't need to memorise markdown to use it. if only it was totally free
Mick- Founder of SongBox.Rocks
It's just amazing.Around the web
The Verge
Welcome to First Click, a daily essay written by The Verge staff in which we opine on lives lived in the near future. As of this week, after the better part of a decade, I'm no longer an Evernote user.The Next Web
I'm in love with a note-taking app for the first time since Evernote wowed me almost a decade ago. 'Bear' is what Notes should have been. Hell, it might be what Notes still aspires to be. It walks the perfect line between simple and feature-rich while offering robust options for organization, search, and - I ...BetaList
A beautiful, flexible writing app for crafting notes and proseRating and price
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Tejas Kinger- SaaS Product Marketing @ Freshworks Inc
Clean and simple, minimalistic interface, features such as PDF upload, PDF annotations, web clipper and the added bonus of maintaining sync across all my Android, iOS and desktop devices.
Kesava Mandiga- Curious cat. Writer. Explorer.
Some friends swear by it, some don't. Supposed to be really good for note taking, duh, but also does lists and task tracking.Tyke is a tiny app that lives in your Mac menu bar. Its your scratch piece of paper when you need to write something down.
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Resh Wallaja- CEO, Kachyng
Clean, simple way to strip formatting and take notesResh Wallaja- CEO, Kachyng
Clean, simple way to strip formatting and take notesResh Wallaja- CEO, Kachyng
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Wild to see Tyke.io become silicon valley's hottest startup in just a day.Recommendations
satheesh- UI UX Designer
Beautifully designed easy to use interface. Its really fun to use the app.
Nacho Andrade
Simple, and free unlike bear and some of the other options on the list. The interface is great and simple. My favorite note app.
Michael Musgrove- Marketing guy.
I use this all the time - It works cross-platform and is super easy. Save with browser extensions, or just a few taps on your phone. It's easy to set up and I found it much more intuitive to use than any other mentioned here, and I've tried them all. Save photos, URLs, and all sorts of items with your note effortlessly, to as many notebooks as you'd like. Th… See moreAround the web
Siftery
See which companies are using Zoho Notebook, compare its alternatives, and read reviews from verified users and expertsRating and price