4/7/2023 0 Comments Noteplan 3 alternative![]() ![]() But that aside, Joplin is super fast, low cost ($2/m for cloud sync), great folder/note navigation, and acceptable export functionality. I'm currently using Joplin and overall, happy enough with it, though it's a little limited on text formatting, and I find it super annoying that weblinks don't work - I have to copy them and paste into Safari rather than just clicking on them. I'd rather not have to sign-up for an account just to test that out and then have to immediately cancel. I would consider Standard Notes if there's more to the "export" than what I'm seeing. ![]() One concern is exporting - it appears that it's exported as plain text files, which is better than nothing, but I add a lot of basic formatting like headers, B/I/U, photos, etc.The Tags/folder organization is very cool.The web "demo" version allowed me to see how the paid version of the app works, which looked quite good.I did check out the macos app using the free version, so couldn't really test anything out, but folder/file/tag navigation seemed decent.This actually shows a lot of promise, though it's super annoying that the free version is completely useless, and there's no free full-featured "trial" version - you have to sign up up for a paid account at $60/yr ("permium" version, which is getting a little rich), and then cancel before the 14-day trial period is over.It all felt buggy and poor user experience. On top of that, the macos app (that I'll spend most of my time using) is just an encapsulated web-app.I spent 10 minutes just trying to figure out how it's implemented. Showed some initial promise, but the notebooks/notes "folder" organization is a complete nightmare.From what I can see of screen shots and a couple reviews, it's not at all what I'm looking for in an Evernote replacement.I didn't actually try the macos app as I don't want to sign up for an account just to try it as by all appearances, it doesn't appear to be focused as a dedicated note app - the email functionality seems to be their primary business.Really, why is that so hard to do?Ĭlick to expand.I have at your suggestion - thanks for mentioning them. I can't believe no developer has taken what Evernote originally did right - fast and stable, solid formatting tools, decent UI, easy syncing between devices on Macs, iPhone/iPad, and import/export of common file formats, and reasonably priced for folks that don't use it for business. Wow, they really blew it - I used to recommend that app as an essential top 10 app. I even considered going back to Evernote, but it's still unfathomably slow, and now that it's been sold to some no-name, it appears to be in a business death-spiral. I've looked at just about every app in this thread - they're either too basic (SimpleNote), too heavy (OneNote), too slow (Evernote, Nimbus), terrible UI (Craft, Nimbus, UpNote), lack decent import/export (Apple Notes, Notability), are geared towards developers (Bear, Joplin, Obsidian), and one doesn't even have any sort of trial/free version (GoodNotes). URL's) is very frustrating and has me still looking for something better. Now I'm on Joplin, which has been workable so far, very fast, very affordable cloud syncing, though the limited text formatting and non-functionality of hyperlinks (e.g. I gave "Craft" a shot for a few months - couldn't get over the wonky text editing UI is just unbearable - I bet that's why it hasn't caught on - it's terrible for text editing. I gave UpNote a try for a couple months - very quirky UI, but the deal-breaker was losing data. It's hard to fathom with all the note apps out there, that I can't find a single one I really like. ![]()
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