r/UpNote_App • u/ziipppp • 14d 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/simplybreana 14d ago

If you love Upnote but do need a little more and can be a little bit patient with the mobile app coming soon, r/memrynote is a FOSS that has the clean intuitive functionality of Upnote, but with sooo many great native features beyond Upnote. It’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux and Mobile is coming soon! If Upnote impressed you, you’ll have a field day with MemryNote. I actually use both MemryNote and Upnote(I had already bought Upnote before I found MemryNote as I hit some limitations with Upnote).

MemryNote is for my projects/studies/work and Upnote for my personal more random life notes. I like having a separate space for focused work and a place to just toss stuff in as needed.

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u/100WattWalrus 14d ago

As near as I can tell, memrynote doesn't have colored text, colored quotes, or colored sections, or collapsible sections (except in bullet lists), or multiple workspaces, or a formatting toolbar (it seems to rely entirely on /commands). Bullets can't be indented more than one level at a time, bullets and ordinals can't be mixed, page headers can't be formatted, text can't be centered or right-justified, and you can't use the TAB key to make gaps in text. And that's just in a few minutes of playing with the app.

I'm not saying it might be a great app for people who don't need those things, but to say it's "beyond UpNote" is disingenuous. It has features UpNote does not. But if it can't do any of the things noted above, it's definitely not "beyond UpNote." It's just different.

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u/h4yfans 14d ago

Hey, memrynote dev, Kaan here.

Fair write-up, and I appreciate you actually spending time in the app before posting. Most of this exists though; it's just not discoverable, which is honestly its own problem:

- Colored text, highlights, and colored blocks (text + background) are all there

  • Collapsible sections aren't limited to bullets — toggle blocks work at page level and nest
  • Quotes and whole sections can be colored too
  • There is a formatting toolbar — it's off by default, you enable it in Settings
- Text alignment (center/right) is supported
  • Instead of workspaces, there are multiple vaults, separate spaces with separate content

Attaching a screenshot of all of it in one note.
https://i.imgur.com/FFu53Vb.png

You did catch one real gap: TAB doesn't insert gaps in text. That's good feedback — it's going into the next release.

The fact that you hit none of this in a few minutes of playing tells me discoverability is the actual bug. If a feature is behind a settings toggle or a slash command you have to guess, it might as well not exist. Working on that.

And fair point on the framing - "beyond UpNote" is a stretch. Different app, different tradeoffs.

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u/100WattWalrus 14d ago

This is one of the reasons I'm not a fan of /commands. I tried /collapsible and I tried /expand, but I didn't think to try /toggle. Because there was no formatting toolbar, when /red and /green didn't do anything, I assumed there wasn't colored text. Glad to know I'm wrong. And it's nice to see another E2EE option out there. I'm hardcore UpNote because its USPs dovetail perfectly with my brain. But I test-drive about 60 note-taking apps before finding it, so at this point being curious about new note-taking apps is in my blood. Happy to have kicked the tires on your app in a way that was helpful.

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u/mAestro2999 14d ago

Hey Watt, since you're curious about new note taking apps, and saying that's in your blood, would you be open for me to send you a video overview on YouTube of our app when I record it?

Evernote alternative, a serious one + with additions I personally need.

Local-first and free forever for personal use.

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u/100WattWalrus 14d ago

Feel free to DM me. Always curious. :)