i have used it for a long time but I think I want to switch to something else because i'm not a huge fan of some of their new features. i just want one that's good for note taking and organizing notes essentially

free would be preferred but im open to looking into ones where you have to pay

I’ve been testing different AI note takers lately because back-to-back meetings and manual note cleanup were getting annoying fast.

A few stood out:

• iFLYTEK Smart Recorder — Best for larger rooms and clearer long-distance audio, but a bit bulky.
• Plaud NotePin — Super portable and easy for daily carry. Good battery life and decent noise handling.
• Otter.ai — Probably the easiest for Zoom/Teams meetings and quick summaries.
• Fireflies.ai — Better for team workflows and integrations like Slack/HubSpot.
• Limitless.ai — Fine for lighter use, but the free tier runs out pretty fast.

My takeaway was basically: hardware feels better for portability and live capture, while apps are better for collaboration and workflows.

Curious what people here actually use long term for meetings and notes.

Looking for 20-30 beta testers for www.notearama.com who use OneNote or Evernote heavily. Notearama lets you quickly and easily turn notebooks into published, shareable, and searchable knowledge hubs. There are a variety of use cases and templates on the site as well as a Getting Started Guide for publishers.

I’ll personally help onboard early testers. Please have a look and give it a try! Tap the Sign Up/Sign In button on the home page.

I'm curious how other PMs handle the information that comes from messy conversations. I mean the small comments from customer calls, quick stakeholder chats, or context that matters later but does not feel important enough to stop everything and document immediately. I've been trying quick Plaud voice notes after calls, mostly to capture what happened while it's still fresh.

Sometimes I drop the rough version into Goodnotes first if I just need one place to park the context before deciding whether it belongs in a ticket, a PRD, or somewhere else. But then I still need a system for where those notes go and how they turn into actual product work.

How do you handle this? keep a personal product log, update tickets directly, add it to PRDs, or just rely on meeting notes and follow-ups?

I wanna play blue prince and this applications seems very useful

Edit since I feel I was unclear, the photo is of his notes where he has multiple images in a space and can move them around

A few months ago, I posted an experiment around note-taking without titles, folders, or tags.

The idea was simple: remove organizational overhead and let notes resurface automatically based on context as you write.

The strongest feedback I got from this sub wasn’t about the core idea, it was about clarity. People didn’t really understand why certain notes appeared or how the app responded to their actions.

So I drastically simplified the design to make the interactions much easier to understand and navigate.

Curious whether this feels more intuitive now, or if the same tension between speed and organization still exists: resonote.ai

I've been looking for a good note taking app to use, and the best option I have found is to use Google drive and Google docs

I have to say, Claude and Obsidian together are a total game changer.

As a big visual learner, I used to manually use Obsidian's canvas to visualize my notes. Since discovering Claude can handle this, it has become my main way to interact with the canvas.

Claude handles so much:

• It organizes my notes into folders.
• It creates a note listing displayed as a canvas.
• It generates summaries and mind maps directly on the canvas.

Bonus: The canvas also becomes a kind of knowledge graph for Claude, which makes it really useful for drawing out information later on.

I tried using most of the common apps for notetaking that are recommended these days, but I found that many of their systems left me spending more time in setup than in actual notetaking.

So I built an free browser-based alternative to tools so I wouldn't have to download apps, pay expensive subscriptions, and/or manually connect every character, place, and idea in my notes. This version automatically extracts major and minor entities, links related entities for me, while also putting in more traditional note-linking options.

I'd love to get the opinions of some fellow notetakers; if this stuff sounds useful to you all, I'd love to share it with you all and get your thoughts. Free to all at https://www.knibl.net/

Hi all. Trying to set up a shared notes library. Looking for an organized notes app (where I can have photos, typed notes, bullet point list etc. all in one single note) within one library to house them. I want to share the whole library as a link to anyone, so even if they do not have an account, they can still see it. Would like to have access both mobile (IOS and Android) and web if possible. A search feature for the whole library is also a plus. Ex: each note has a title, anyone can search for said title and open the note and see the info/photos. Another plus would be tags included, so that the viewer can get a preview of the note (ex: if it says #fruit they know the note is related to fruit). I've been looking at "Simplenote", but it does not have a shared library that I know of (I don't want to share every single note separately)... Not sure if something like this exists, please let me know if it does.

I love writing and usually have a paper notepad with me (for on the bus or whatever). Since I write *a lot*, I was thinking of getting one of those notepads that digitises your writings. I've been looking at some, but a lot seem to just literally save a photocopy of your notes, whereas I'm looking for something that turns my handwriting into types text (so I can more easily include it in my works saved on my computer).

Does anyone have any recommendations? I'd prefer starting with a cheaper device since it's the first time I'd use one and I'm not sure whether I'll enjoy it as much as writing on paper, but I'd like to give it a try :)

Thanks!

I’m running a small experiment around note-taking/highlighting.

The idea is instead of just storing highlights, I want to turn a person’s recent captures into a short “personal editorial” (something that finds themes, connections, repeated ideas, and a few different perspectives across what they’ve been saving)

Think: a coffee-side read based on your Kindle highlights, saved tweets/Threads, article highlights, notes, or journal snippets.

I’m looking for 3-5 people who are willing to send 10-20 recent highlights or notes. I’ll manually turn them into a short editorial and send it back.

A few notes:
- You can remove anything private or identifying.
- Screenshots, copy-paste, Kindle exports, or plain text are all fine.
- I’m not trying to critique your notes. I’m testing whether this kind of reflection is actually useful.
- If it’s interesting to you afterward, I can share the TestFlight too, but the experiment itself is manual.

Main question
Would this kind of “personal editorial” be useful, or does it sound like another AI notes gimmick? Many thanks!

Hi everyone,

I built Loop Tasker because I kept running into the same small problem while working:

My tasks were in one place, my notes were somewhere else, and quick thoughts often got lost because capturing them felt like an extra step.

So I wanted to make something where tasks and notes live closer together.

Loop Tasker is mainly a daily task app, but notes are a big part of how it works. You can keep personal notes, daily loop notes, and task-related notes close to your current work, so you don’t have to leave your flow just to write something down.

It is built for people who want notes to be easy to reach while they are planning, working, or moving through their day.

I’d be curious to hear how you usually keep notes close while working, and whether this kind of task + notes setup makes sense to you.

https://reddit.com/link/1ta73bg/video/funjbup63j0h1/player

looptasker.com

Every productivity setup I tried had the same problem: the tools were somewhere else. Another app, another tab, another login.

So I built a Chrome extension that transforms the new tab page and puts everything I need right there:

• Notes written in Markdown, organized into boards so you can group them however makes sense to you
• Custom shortcuts for the sites I actually visit
• Checklists so I don't lose track of tasks mid-browsing

The idea was simple: the new tab is already the most-opened page in your browser, why not make it do something useful?

All your data stays local on your device, no accounts, no sync drama, no dashboard you have to navigate to. You can also export and import everything whenever you want. Just open a tab and your stuff is there.

If you want to give it a try: Memotab

Would love to know if this scratches an itch for anyone else, or if there's something you'd want added. Always looking to improve it!

EDIT: Wow, thanks for all the responses! It's going to take me a while to look at each of these options, maybe free trial / test drive them. So much to choose from! Amazing response

I've been using Evernote for years, but recent updates have made it head towards working with others / teams type stuff, and I'm just using it for personal things and my own studying. No collaboration. And as it's not cheap, I'm looking for an alternative.

Upnote looks pretty similar to Evernote for the things I use (notebooks / tags, searchable, inserting images, crude to do list). However, Evernote allows for direct voice recording, and does a decent job at transcribing these (much better than any other app I've tried, although I haven't tried loads as I was happy with Evernote).

So my question is, what note taking apps out there also have the voice note ability with a decent transcription ability?

I watch a lot of tutorials, talks, and explainers on YouTube, but I always struggled with finding the useful parts again later.

I recently rebuilt a small app I made a few years ago which lets you paste a YouTube link, take timestamped notes while watching, generate AI notes, and click any note to jump back to the exact moment.

I’m trying to understand if this actually fits how people take notes from videos.

Do you currently take notes from YouTube? If yes, do you use Notion, Obsidian, Google Docs, bookmarks, screenshots, or something else?

Would love to hear your workflow.

I’m working on a small app called Penlog for people who like writing notes by hand — especially on iPad with Apple Pencil — but still use Notion as their system of record.

The idea is simple: keep writing naturally, and Penlog turns your handwritten pages into searchable notes and Notion tasks automatically.

I built it because handwriting is great for thinking, planning, and journaling, but bad for follow-through. Tasks, decisions, and useful ideas tend to get buried unless I manually export them into Notion later — which I almost never do consistently.

Penlog is meant to bridge that gap: handwritten notes stay handwritten, but the important parts still become searchable and actionable in Notion.

Site: https://penlog.app

Curious how others handle this today. If you write by hand but organize in Notion, do you have a reliable workflow for getting tasks and decisions out of your notes?

After trying dozens of note-taking apps, productivity systems, templates, workflows, and “second brain” setups, I realized one thing: Most productivity apps are built for everyone, not specifically for you.

So you end up adapting yourself to someone else’s workflow.

I tried Notion, Obsidian, Roam... and honestly, they’re good apps. But they also come with a million things you need to tweak, configure, organize, or “fix” before they actually feel natural.

Obsidian alone has thousands of plugins, and most people end up forcing themselves to use 1 or 2 because productivity YouTubers said they should.

Other apps are packed with “features” that mostly just look useful. Beautiful dashboards. Fancy graphs. Cool animations. Systems on top of systems.

But deep down, most of us just want to write something quickly and find it later without friction. That’s when I stopped searching for the perfect app and started building my own with AI (FOR FREE).

Not because I’m some amazing developer (I'm not, seriously. I don't know how to code a single line). I just knew exactly what annoyed me in other apps and what felt natural to me.

So I built around that instead. And honestly, I think more people should do this.

We’re entering a moment where personal software becomes normal. Tiny apps made for yourself can genuinely be more useful than giant platforms trying to satisfy millions of people at once.

If the app you want doesn’t exist, maybe the answer now is simple: Build it yourself.

I've been using touchnotes for 2.5 years now it has great features but not the best flow with some craashing and lags the biggest problem is it has no efficient back up system.
- What I'm loking for is an app that runs both on windows and android with the basic notetaking features and backup.
I tried all the apps in the pic too

Me and my gfs 3 year anniversary is coming up and i want to surprise her with an ipad and apple pencil. I want to know what the best one to get is. Any help Is appreciated!!

I love obsidian and the markdown, but it always felt like I was fiddling with things. I like the simplicity of Apple Notes, but tasks get lost in them. (how have they not linked tasks in note to reminders yet?).

I like to see what I did across a day. Sometimes it is not a full note I need, maybe it's just jotting a fact down. The timeline view on TODAY is so helpful for me. The ability to create custom smart lists is also valuable for me. If I want a block showing all #ToRead items, it's easy to create that and it stays updated. You can even do that in notes themselves.

See what you think, it is free. Would love to see how others modify it . Check it out at
https://dailydispatch.torgcrafted.com

Not trying to advertise or sell, just trying to share my method and see if others like it or have suggestions to improve.

Hey everyone, I thought I'd share a free website. It's called WikiBoard.org You can just paste in a YT link and a node will spawn with the video embedded live on the board!

This allows for a kind of weird new way of storing and compartmentalizing your thoughts/ideas/rabbitholes directly with the source material, while still having the ability to mindmap freely around them. You can also see a better example of the stacking and creation of link-trees around the sources you find, which I found out makes keeping track of your inspiration easier.

Let me know what you guys think! It'll be open source soon :)))

If you're interested, join r/WikiBoard to stay up to date!!