How makers stay productive

Google Keeps has everything I need 😍

I love Notion but it can be slow on mobile, so I also use Bear.

User of Bear. I recently subscribed for Pro to unlock iCloud syncing. This app is super awesome!

Notejoy/ Notion/ Google docs are what I use.

honestly i'm an old skool pen & paper notebook kinda guy.

although, recently i was introduced to cherrytree and KeepNote and have really enjoyed the rich features! The former supports tables, and the latter has not been updated in awhile but still works beautifully.

Bear to write my blog posts in markdown Notes for random jotting Slack personal DM for ToDo list and MoM notes

Simplenote is great

Simplenote for longform writing, Keep for quick notes, and OneNote for notes that need to be organised around a single topic.

I use coda.io. Once setup, it can also help automate and file everything for me. I like notion too, but it's API isn't released - so it's missing the automation part.

For misc, mostly personal notes, Google Keeps is great. I love mobile-desktop integration. But, while working in a project (I work on many projects!), I use KanbanFlow and all notes go to the kanban of related task. Also, in every board, first column is devoted to store docs related to this project.

Evernote

I have started using roamresearch.com the past 2 weeks and boy how much I enjoy just putting my ideas there, is like being able to keep the mess of my brain there but easy searchable. I also use google keeps for minor things.

Bit of self promo here, but it is genuine answer;

I loved the idea of Tot from Iconfactory, but balked at the price on iOS. I've made a version for a quarter of the price.

7 workspaces for each day of the week, swipe gesture between each workspace, it works with my workflow. Syncs over iCloud.

It's not as feature rich, but I will work on it spare time - and I'll open source the code in 60 days.

If you'd like to try it;

macOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nitronotes/id1502156884?ls=1

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nitronotes/id1502080216

I capture everything in Noted. I use Noted as my short term memory. It's super fast, works on all the platforms I depend on (even Apple Watch), and I love the audio recording, time tagging and dictation features. It's just clean, fast and simple. It's my day to day inbox for jotting down everything, storing quick screenshots or photos of things that inspired me, and so forth.

I curate those notes and move the important stuff into Notion. I use Notion as my long term memory. If I capture something in Noted that's important, every few days I'll take those entires, clean them up, and move them into Notion, where I keep everything structured and super reference-able. Basically I keep two spaces in Notion: one for my life, and one for my work, and I store everything important to me in them. Stuff I need for reference, stuff I keep for inspiration, all my ideas, plans, long term goals, etc. go in there.

So, I capture everything into Noted, and then I curate the important stuff into Notion. Short term memory, long term memory.

The thing about note taking apps is, like most productivity tools, there is not one size fits all solution. Something that excels for me may and probably won't for you. Mileage varies a lot based on how you manage your thoughts, your tastes and indeed your needs. Try them all on and find the one that fits for you.