What Do I Care About In My Notetaking App?
Source: https://workflowy.com/#/7d20bfd61536
- Compare note apps: Workflowy, Logseq, Craft - NoteApps.info
- Being able to zoom into blocks, and view them as an isolated unit.
- Grammarly integration
- How easy the notes are to share with other people.
- How readable the notes are, and how much I enjoy writing them out. (Themes)
- Access to a mobile app.
- Daily notes; as a corollary, how easy it is to just get thoughts flowing within the note-taking software. ** #update 07-05-22_**: Daily notes don’t feel so important anymore 202207051407
- How easy it is for me to link to things using Hook. (Is it zero friction?)
- Is it 100% reliable? Am I likely to lose my notes, or for backlinks to suddenly stop working?
- Is it easy for me to find things? Is it likely that I’ll take some notes and they’ll get lost in the shuffle of things, somewhere?
- How well do backlinks work? Can I use them as a seamless way to view information about something?
- Readwise integration — can I use it as a source of truth.
- How easy it is to export to different formats (formatted, HTML, Markdown). Also see: Issues With Closed Notetaking Software 202207051341
- Is it easy to send back and forth between formats, since I’m so fucking indecisive about which apps I want to use?
- Table features
- Extensibility (plugins) — essentially speeding up the feature development process since we’re no longer just dependent on the developers
- Reasonable todo management within the app.
- Well thought out keyboard shortcuts.
- Does it satisfy a niche that other apps don’t provide? For example, Gingko feels just so natural and mentally smooth to use to organize information, and to go from outline -> draft -> final product. What are the unique pieces that each app gives me that I can’t get from the other ones? What specifically am I missing out on?
- Templates
- Having a notion of a side panel, and being able to view multiple pieces of information side-by-side.
- Once I’ve just added things to a page, brain-dump style (like I’m doing now), how easy is it to go through and clean up the page so that it conveys meaningful ideas?
- Can I use the app to take long-form notes about articles and such? Is it easy to read and digest?
- Apps that I want to compare:
- Workflowy
- Craft
- Logseq
- Roam?
- Dynalist
- Potentially Dropbox Paper
- Mem
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