What are your favorite tools for organizing notes and quotes?

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Ideally I'd like something where I can tag each quote/note to more easily find them. Also ideally I'd be able to quickly add notes from both my laptop and phone.

Arthur Swiniarski · Accepted Answer

The best note apps for solo user or a team :)

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It's a hybrid spreadsheet and one of best could base platform to record and organize your notes. I have been using it in AeroLeads.com to manage the task of my teammates.

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They packed a surprisingly large amount of features into their standard notes app on iOS. Has everything I need to organise my thoughts, lists, etc.

Manuela Bárcenas · Answer

Fellow is my favourite app for organizing meeting notes!

Using this app has made my meetings 10X more effective as it encourages me to collaborate on meeting agendas, take meeting notes, and record action items as discussions evolve. Basically, it helps me keep track of all my work interactions in one place.

In an interview with Glassdoor, Shopify’s Director of Employee Experience said that Fellow is the tool that helps Shopify employees “have intentional conversations so they can continue to advance and level up, faster.”

If employees at forward-thinking companies like Shopify use Fellow to organize their meeting notes, I think you should use it too :)

Abhinav Srivastava · Answer

We notion everyday for a team of about 50 and it's great!

Graeme Bryce · Answer

I am part of the product team but I have been looking for an app to do this for years!

Of course we use JIRA and Confluence but we also now use Twasme to organise screenshots will associated note and documents.

It allows you to create unlimited collections and then create unlimited entries inside each collection.   An entry can be simply a note or it can have attachments. you can also add custom values to each entry to store credentials or scores or just about anything.

The team are keen to see how people react to the product and will listen to any feature requests. At the moment anyone signing up for the live product before the end of January receives a free lifetime subscription.

Mike Flanagan · Answer

It works great as a collaborative note-taking tool, but it's much more than that. For our team it fully replaced Google Docs, Trello, and Confluence.

Razvan Gabriel Apostu · Answer

For taking notes, there are a variety of apps such as Google Keep, Evernote and so on. 
But for quotes and book notes I've recently started using Airable and I'm really happy with it for now 😅. I can create "items" for my books, authors, topics and so on, that I can use to link the quotes to. This, together with the ordinary search bar is, in my opinion, a good solution for organizing small to medium ideas and quotes.

P.S. 📖For offline reading, I also use a quick hack: I take a picture of the page I want to remember, I use Google Keep's OCR to extract the text, and then copy it right into AirTable. Hope it helps :D

Shamit Khemka · Answer

It has apps for all the major platforms, and with a Business account, you can even use Evernote for real-time chat and collaboration with colleagues.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Evernote automatically synchronizes your content across multiple devices, allowing you to access it from any phone, tablet or PC. The service's premium tier offers even more features, such as offline access to notes/notebooks and PDF annotations.

Rahul dogra · Answer

It is very much organized and I find it quite helpful in keeping my notes synchronized through my phone ,laptop.

Ureeda Asim · Answer

"Evernote helps you capture and prioritise ideas, projects, and to-do lists, so nothing falls through the cracks."

I've been using it for personal and professional use at home and office both, for a few years now. It has made me keep a track of all my notes and tasks, right there on my desktop and mobile home screens. Definitely recommended! :)

Shamit Khemka · Answer

It's an excellent tool for keeping notes  and maintaining to-do reminders.

Mehdi Boudoukhane · Answer

Started using Boards recently, really awesome to easily gather inspirations, quotes, images, etc. You can pretty much drag and drop anything and nicely structure it all in a board that you can share and collaborate on with your team.

Arsalan Sajid · Answer

Google Keep helps me and my colleagues by taking daily notes, ideas, voice notes, links, etc, for new work projects and so we do not forget any important details. Google Keep is like an extension of our minds but with many more intelligent functions, where human capacity fails, applications like these help us improve our work performance.

Stowe Boyd · Answer

I post many many 'notes' on Tumblr, for example to publish my daybook of links and observations (see stoweboyd.com/tagged/daybook). Tumblr supports markdown, HTML, and rich text in posts.

Dennis Müller · Answer

Just create a group, invite a friend and kick them out again – voilà! You basically have the personal version of a Slackbot, and also without any additional functionality, but pssst!

I like this solution because it's super fast to boot on a phone (vs. Slackbot), integrated into your everyday life, allows you to pin the chat and serves as the perfect braindump, you can also enrich it with voice messages, photos etc.

Lullaby Tom · Answer

it is great!

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Available on iOS, macOS, searching, tagging. Well-designed. A++.

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Apart from Airtable which I've already recommended above, I'd also like to recommend OneNote, one simple note taking app for all purposes. We can do a lot of things from a OneNote canvas, from taking regular notes, create some to-do lists, organizing notes based on tags/categories, etc.
Does anyone know it is free to use both on desktop, tablet, and mobile phones? Yes it is.

David Marlow · Answer

Clean (lots of blank space) and easy solution for organizing notes & quotes.

Noëlie Rx · Answer

I'm using taskade for To-do list, but I also use it for Notes. That way I can see what I have to do but I can also take notes everywhere because it's a website, an extension for chrome and mozilla, but also a software and an Android and iOS app. That way all my notes are share betwenn all this stuff, and if I want I can invite people I want.

Fileyogi · Answer

its evernote

Michelle Chan · Answer

Weava is a Chrome extension that allows you to highlight any only article and PDF and organize them into folders to fit your research structure. You can also clip images, take notes and annotations, and create citations (if you're using it for college papers). Great research organizational tool.

Pavan Sethi · Answer

I vote Notion here.  It's super easy to quickly take notes and there are many templates for you to use to quickly organize a doc in whatever way you want.  The desktop client and the mobile app are both very user-friendly and the "Quick Search" feature makes everything easy to find.

Sheharyar · Answer

Great tool for sharing and managing knowledge within teams

Mahesh Thumar · Answer

Supports rich text editing and multiple notes.
Distraction free. Just notes nothing else!

BOZON.CC · Answer

- client-side encryption
- hierarchical nested folders
- files as attachments
- all devices are supported via modern browser
- full-text search (even regExp supported)

Alex Sharp - followreset.com · Answer

Day one is a great note-taking / journaling app and syncs between mac and ios. I've been using it for years for both personal and professional journaling and note-taking. It many ways to organize your notes, from tagging to create separate journals.

Celine Carpet · Answer

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Alex Sharp - followreset.com · Answer

Day one is a great note-taking / journaling app and syncs between mac and ios. I've been using it for years for both personal and professional journaling and note-taking. It many ways to organize your notes, from tagging to create separate journals.

Peter Dox · Answer

its just awesome and free to use. You can keep all required information in it. You can work as a team with group chat.

Tseh-yu Yan · Answer

Google Keep plus a markdown extension = a digital index card box.

David Hunter · Answer

Super lightweight, flexible and searchable. Plus the content shares elsewhere nicely. I am a fan of the basic Windows Notepad, and Keep has a notepad-like feel to it at a basic level. I love it.

Lullaby Tom · Answer

5 stars for it.

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I think so far, Airtable defeats traditional other spreadsheets apps out there. Even better, it's my powerful tool among other note taking apps. Simple tool to organize everything on the go. Really recommended.

Ohad Shvily · Answer

I've been using Evernote for the past year and I found it quite useful in organising my "digital life".  I especially like the "Simplified Article" option for saving blogs and articles I like. The article becomes much easier to view and read. I also like it can search text within PDF flies and even pictures, makes it so much faster to find what I was looking for with only a couple of keywords.