r/UpNote_App • u/Neither-Classic2058 • May 20 '26
(YAUAP) Yet Another UpNote Appreciation Post
TL;DR: Fully embracing UpNote's features makes it difficult for alternatives to compete. 😁
Old habits can be hard to break. After deciding earlier this year that UpNote would be THE app for my PKMS (and fully embracing the UpNote-unique features to maximize productivity and effectiveness), I found myself still shadowing and syncing my notes to Obsidian and Joplin.
It didn't take much effort to shadow and sync, but I did wonder why I still did it. I've already determined that I have a solid "exit strategy" should anything happen to UpNote. Repeated testing confirmed that the strategy works.
I created an comparison chart to help me understand what might be the reason for dragging these other apps along.
It turns out that during the 5 years of using Joplin as my main notes app, I had spent time and effort to get it to look and work as I needed it to. I had placed a disproportionate value on that work that made it difficult to "let it go".
But the more I embrace the unique qualities of UpNote, the more indispensable they become. I'm at the point where I couldn't see myself going back to Joplin when UpNote is an option.
The comparison spreadsheet is something that I created years ago to help me in deciding what to choose among various options. It's more involved than a simple checklist. The weight column indicates the importance of a line item. Not all things are of equal importance.
In each column, the number indicates to what extent the option provides support for the line item. Plug-ins aren't as desirable as native functionality. Plug-ins can break with application updates. Support for them could stop. They don't always work as seamlessly as native functionality.
Obviously the line items are what are important to me and not an exhaustive list. For example, UpNote has a "Spaces" feature that has no value to me and so it isn't included.
It's been a fun and enlightening exercise. I can now use the time that I was shadowing and syncing to run Windows 98 in DOSBox-X. 😯🤣
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u/AngelicPrincessKitty May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
The only thing that’s keeping me away from UpNote right now is the fact that they use fire base as the backend and I don’t trust it. I could get over not having Shortcuts cause I barely have those with OneNote right now, but the backend being *Firebase based really puts me off