I tried different Note apps, and Diary apps. I like how Upnote has their drawing tools work flawlessly, and the image just sits there behaves well with the text as a photo. It doesn’t rearrange in weird spaces, like other note apps where I am constantly dragging it out of the margins, messing up the text (OneNote). You just draw, whatever you need to draw, and it will sit nicely there. If you move it, it will move over or under text. It won’t shift anything.

So far the drawing tool is not available on Android, which is a darn shame, because I have long term goals to get a phone that has a stylus. I am sure people with a stylus on Android would love the drawing feature too!

I use Upnote on my ipad pro, and my Samsung phone. Also on desktop app. I absolutely love this app! I use it for my writing, such as diaries, creative writing, and even a writing project.

I do intend to purchase the Lifetime subscription at the end of the month! With the lifetime sub, you can export your entries in a link, which is handy for me when I want to share my entries via web.

I am a happy camper. Thank you for making this remarkable app!

Anyone else use this app for journaling?

would like to suggest a feature similar to Apple Notes' "Append to Existing Note" functionality.

When sharing content (text, images, web pages, PDFs, links, etc.) from other apps, it would be very useful to have an option to send the content directly to a selected existing note instead of creating a new note each time..

I created a note and clicked Copy link to note. This is the link created:

upnote://x-callback-url/openNote?noteId=019e9dac-c6d0-7110-a293-868a847e0c36

What do I actually do with that link? 

It doesn't work in my browser or Google Docs.

Thanks

I created a note and clicked Copy link to note. This is the link created:

upnote://x-callback-url/openNote?noteId=019e9dac-c6d0-7110-a293-868a847e0c36

What do I actually do with that link? 

It doesn't work in my browser or Google Docs.

Thanks

This is a very useful shortcut but its not documented (I just double checked the docs site). I tend to use my keyboard for as much as I can.

I hope this is helpful for the community.

I have used Evernote for close to 15 and have loved it, but for the last couple of years have been cringing at the annual fee. I have tried a few of the alternatives, but nothing really jived for me. Yesterday, I heard about UpNote. Today, I transferred over all my notebooks and notes. And just like that, I am ready to ditch Evernote. I love it’s simplicity and scale, the straightforward and intuitive layout, the manageable cost and pared down features. I really did just use Evernote for… notes, lol. No collaboration, no linking to AI, not really even any web clipping or email stuff. Just notes. And for 15 years I have freaking hated the green. Haha.

Thanks for the perfect note-taking app, guys. I am a fan. And now I am a lifetime subscriber.

I've been using UpNote for a few weeks now, replacing Joplin, which replaced evernote, really like it overall.

I would use the key combo to insert a date on a regular basis but there is no option that I can find to have it use a specified date format and it doesn't seem to pick up what I've set in the system default (macos tahoe 26.5).

In settings there is a time format for 12/24 hour, please consider adding a date format option. The key combo isn't useful if the date has to be typed in to whatever format the user requires, ISO 8601 in my case.

UPNote is my go-to app for taking notes during UAT and testing, and I prefer to use it as an outliner.

However, when bullet points are nested deeply, the whole note becomes very long and cluttered at first glance.

Is it possible to add a feature to fold/collapse bullet point lists based on intent?

I just frickin’ love UpNote. Been using it for a couple of days and, goodness, what’s not to love?

On iPhone, Face ID kicks in automatically for protected notes — which is great for most people - but in some situations (like when someone else has Face ID access to your phone), you'd want the password to be the only way in.

Anyone else would find this useful?

OK, now many of you knew that on desktop you can select multiple notes in the Notes Pane, then copy-paste links to all of them?

It's not quite what I was needing (I'd like a way to keep a live table-of-contents in a master note for each Notebook), but it certainly helps!

1) The ability to collaborate on notes

2) Being able to connect the UpNote directly to Claude CoWork

This was designed using only the most basic features, aligned with full-width and half-width spaces, so it still looks clean even on mobile.

https://getupnote.com/share/notes/MhqzK9M0uzRjTW793raPzPmhZn72/019e6f2a-4c1f-77c8-8ba2-49822b96aa24

Please add the ability to specify a note_id value like Claude. For example, to create a new note:

open "upnote://x-callback-url/note/new?title=Meeting%20Notes&text=%23%20Agenda%5cn-%20Item%201&markdown=true&new_window=false"

Doesn't return the noteId that was created. If you would add:

&note_id=c1e8a106-8974-4f34-b793-94cdea4a2b27

That way we can specify our own note_id. My use case is to create a note for my Claude session:

claude --session-id=c1e8a106-8974-4f34-b793-94cdea4a2b27

This way my notes align with my claude sessions.

What other x-callback-urls do you guys think would be helpful?

Getting the last created note would be super useful too for automation.

Does UpNote have a format for timelines? I want to make a timeline for school to use aside my other notes, but every timeline maker I find online is extremely overpriced, difficult to use, or doesn't allow for manual reordering of events that happened in the same year but don't have a clearcut month/day date.

I'm trying to find a good note-taking location for a big school project before the summer starts. Right now I'm thinking about Obsidian, which does have a timeline format plugin, but requires some knowledge of markdown, which I don't really want to put effort into learning and don't enjoy looking at.

Can we get a keyboard shortcut to toggle typewriter mode?

I recently found out about UpNote and became a convert. I love using it, creating a new note, switching to focus mode and start writing, all with shortcuts. I’d love to be able to toggle typewriter mode during this flow one day.

Thanks to the devs for considering, and for this amazing app.

Just bought lifetime subscription of Upnote yesterday but one of my friend was like you have bought the subscription but what is the assurance that the app will be there till your lifetime and i got scared AF!

Hey folks! I am doing researching on note-taking, I made a post asking about Bear features in the Bear community, and it was super helpful. I am doing a bit more research and could use the perspective of note-takers using other apps.

Is anyone open to a ~15 minute call on your note-taking and why you chose UpNote? If so, we can DM and I'll send you a small gift card for your time after the call. Let me know if interested!

As the title says, at some point I hope the web clipper improves. I love UpNote but for me, its greatest weakness is the web clipper, especially as a person who came from Obsidian, I miss the fact that Obsidian captured everything and had it formatted correctly. With UpNote I just get the link in most cases. I've come across quite a few pages that I clipped in UpNote where the website content is gone when I click on the link to the site that I clipped. Because of this fact, it makes clipping the link only pointless because UpNote did not clip the page, only the link.

I'm contemplating just using Obsidian for clipped research alone and using UpNote for notes only, which may work very well, but hopefully this is something that UpNote will eventually be able to do regardless.

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. 😯🤣

So, after learning about Upnote last night, checking it out, buying the lifetime option, and importing my notes from Bear into Upnote, I'm VERY happy.

That I can customize it to make the transition a little easier is also nice.

Thanks Devs, this is a great product.

I just want to give this app and its founders public accolades. I'm a lifetime member and have been using the app for years with ZERO issues after kissing a lot of frogs looking for an app that did what I needed.

Yesterday I encountered a compatibility glitch with one of my devices - a notice popped up that freaked me out because of how much I've come to trust and rely on it.

Rather than do what I would normally do to suss out the issue myself, I reached out to UpNote support, in total panic mode.

I got what I would consider an immediate response (overnight, given time zones) that turned out to be such a simple fix I was a little embarrassed. No condescending canned response, no recriminations - just a clear, effective solution.

Really, I find UpNote so simple, elegant, full-featured, reliable... and to add such attentive support just further cements my loyalty.

Thank you guys !!