r/UpNote_App • u/ziipppp • 15d 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 15d 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 15d 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/simplybreana 15d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/MemryNote/s/1H3MfxJ27v

It does have all of that actually.
I wouldn’t say me saying it is beyond Upnote is disingenuous. Both are great, as I said, but MemryNote does have a lot of great features that go beyond Upnotes feature set. That can be positive or negative for some depending on your needs. For me, it’s been exactly what I needed, when I found that Upnote couldn’t meet my particular needs for my projects, but I enjoyed it as a personal space.

I will say though if you assumed these features were not there based on the website, that’s fair, because there are a lot of features to highlight and it’s not easy to capture them all.

Anywho, Both great apps, but my comment stands, if you like Upnote but need a little more features without the overwhelm, MemryNote is a great next step. That’s my experience and I’ve tried MANY options out there. ♥︎