Here's my 2 cents on Craft as someone working in technology and heavily relying on documentation tools but failed to adopt it as a daily tool despite many attempts:
First, the good part:
Craft has absolutely every feature you could imagine and is incredibly sleek and well-designed.
Now the issue:
I can't use this tool for document/note taking in my workflows because it cramps every feature in the UI, which results in endless different views, confusing navigation and animations, and hidden elements behind multi-slide navs.
I'll emphasize the first part again: Craft is literally the best-developed note-taking tool I've tried. However, it seems that whoever is managing this product is prioritizing adding every single imaginable feature rather than just focusing on how users actually write notes and documents. This is fairly frustrating because I would truly love to use it daily.
I went through the Craft website and read some Reddit posts, and from my understanding, the product is meant to be a "Note"-taking app but with a leap towards turning notes into documents.
This is awesome, but it seems like core elements of note-taking have been dismissed, and when I use the app, I am not sure if it's trying to be Notion, Canva, Google Drive, Eraser, or another tool.
Here are some examples:
For my desktop note taking app, the top priorities are:
1. Create notes quickly
2. Find notes quickly
3. The ability to quickly turn text into a heading/bulletpoint etc
Everywhere I go in Craft, I end up getting a different view or UI: in one place, my "notes" are ordered in a grid, in another, in a list, and some notes seem to have "nested" notes, which is ridiculously confusing. I truly fail to understand the point of this, especially as it results in extremely confusing navigation.
Then, the tabs: Tabs are great, but just because you can put a search icon that resizes into a search bar in the current active tab is possible does not mean you should. Sure, it's impressive UI, but if i want to switch a tab, the last thing I want is for it to resize on hover to then click the close button or search bar by mistake.
For the sake of efficiency, Move the tabs to their own line, do not resize them on hover to avoid confusing the user, and leave the search bar on its own line. Also, maybe reduce the font sizes to preserve UI real estate.
Text editing: You've added a "quick" text editor, which is essential, but it doesn't include changing text to a heading or sub heading. Instead the quick menu offers the user to highlight text. So to change text to a heading you have to Select the text > Click on the sidebar > Click on format > Click on the heading.
I am fairly sure formatting a heading is far more performed than highlighting text.
The code blocks are awesome and offer full syntax highlighting and even theme changes? (Largely overkill if you're asking me, I genuinely don't see what made this a priority), but if you're gonna be adding a code block, the first thing you'll need to do is change the language for proper highlighting. You'd think that can be done on double click? But no, you need to > Double click > Click the "elipsis" icon > click on "Language" > Search for the language you want to use.
I could list many other examples of how Craft has become a frustrating tool for normal workflows.
If I am writing notes, I'll spend 90% of the time writing and formatting them. I am not expecting to be taken through a UI presentation of every possible animation, masonry layout, or UI component.
It's crazy because, for me, this could be the best notes-taking app ever made if they just removed a bunch of stuff and simplified the UI to prioritize putting controls where they should be.
Notion
Google Docs
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@viktor_pali The new MCP and API integrations are exactly what's needed for a powerful connected workspace. Which external tools are seeing the most immediate value from the API
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@masump Glad to hear Masum!
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@viktor_pali I absolutely love Craft! Congrats on the new release! These new features that you guys are extending to users is great and super powerful!
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@noahraskin_ Many thanks Noah!!
@viktor_pali This App has probably cost me to loose a few years of my life. It is so much fun to use, and with ever growing features, I have missed so many bedtimes, as I can’t seem to shut it down and have lost so so much sleep. But I am better organized and loving the ease of use. It was made for me. I don’t have to have Artificial Intelligence to make a Highly Readable, Useful, Expansive, Notes, Task lists, Websites, but wait, it does. —- Ok Ok, I am still trying to figure out what the Craft App doesn’t do.
It Can Remind me to Take Out the Trash, Probably Saving my Marriage.
So get Craft and Save Your Marriage.
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@viktor_pali With Craft, I finally stopped hunting for the “perfect” notes app like a deranged digital truffle pig. I checked today. It turns out I’ve been in a four-year love affair with Craft. I’ve used it as my notes app, my to-do list, my storage vault… and yes, I’m still collecting my book quotes in there.
And with every release, it just gets more powerful. I only hope I can keep up. 😄
The Craft team is kind enough to drop their major releases exactly when the holidays roll around — you know, so we can “relax” by testing everything extensively.
Not sure if my mini-vacation is enough for all these mighty new features, though…
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Huge congrats to the team.
Always continuing to improve the product!!
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@francescod_ales Many thanks Francesco!!
Craft Do feels like the kind of place where you can dump ideas, plans, meeting notes — and maybe actually find them back later. If the syncing and search are smooth, this could replace a few of my current tools. Congrats on the launch!
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@eugene_chernyak Many thanks! Btw Sync is the fundamental part of our experience so made tremendous focus on to be lightning fast and always reliable!
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This is really nice. I've created an account.
By the way, is it free forever?
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@chilarai Hey! Yes, Craft has a free tier that you can use forever.
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Hi. Where I can read more about API and MCP. Can't find info on your website?
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@userio_neimio Hey Aleksandr! You can find more info on craft.do/imagine
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Been bouncing between notes apps all year. Craft’s mix of notes + tasks + whiteboards + a code editor sounds... sane. Mostly curious if the context-aware assistant grabs what I need without fuss. Android beta is nice. My tabs could use that calmer flow.
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@alexcloudstar Sign up and try it out – you'll get a set of starting credits for the assistant!
MCP integration makes it where I can use Craft anywhere. Good work!
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@campak Thanks, glad to here!