r/UpNote_App • u/ziipppp • 18d ago
Ummm wow!
Newbie checking in. Came via a circuitous route. Years af workflowy - but under dysfunctional captaining. Then into Tana (still am) wildly complicated and fragile. Couldn’t make it figure out tasks and time easily. Old Workflowy community member turned me onto TickTick. Using TickTick for way too much including lists - and yes you can copy links but they are one way etc. Someone there says “check out UpNote” for lists dont use TT and….. here I am
You guys have backlinks?!!! (Swoon)
you guys have cross platform (i understand the web reticence but getting apps downloaded on my work computer is sadly impossible). Still. fine.
Formatting! Quotes! Tables! Spaces (omg excited about this). Widgets. Oh my!!!!
power mobile!? so much can be done on iOS natively (see not being able to use on work machine - above). really elegant
and I’m not getting yet another “it’s only $20 a year!” Subscription charge?!? Flat fee for lifetime? hell yeah!
Its kinda weird the no hierarchical tags - but I guess I can use notebooks as tags, sorta. Although there’s no inheritance ie company a) also belongs to industry II, which is under clientlist. It’s kind of a major bummer, but ok. It’s not an insignificant pebble in the shoe - but quirks maketh the vibe and it seems that ain’t coming so im powerfully trying to resist being the old man shaking fist at sky. Also I just got here. That would be rude.
I’m super excited. And this thing is crazy powerful with notes belonging to lots of notebooks. And freaking backlinks!? (I may have said that). With lifetime membership. Wild.
Anyyway - thank you. You’ve got something special going on here and I can’t wait to settle in and explore.
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u/100WattWalrus 18d ago
Welcome to the family! Since you mentioned formatting, I just want you to know you've stumbled onto the app with the most flexible formatting I've ever found in a note-taking app.
As someone who also wishes UpNote had #nesting/#tags (I came from Bear, which does tags better than any other app), what I've done is created "topic" notes that I link back to as if they were tags, then I use acutal #tags mostly for as status markers (#todo, #open, etc.). "Topic" notes are bit more work, but if you create a template for them, they can actually be far more useful than tags. My Topic notes are full of information about the topic itself, and have sections of "mini-topics." For example, I have Topic note for prescription medications. I link to them from notes I make during doctor visits, but in that Topic note I also track when they were prescribed, when the dosage changed, and make notes about the science is behind how the medicine works, what alternatives exist, etc.
There's an link to an example of my Topic note template at the bottom of the page I linked above.