Top 10 Notes for All Platforms

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Choose the tool that's perfect for your needs.

1. Bear

• Types of notes: text, lists, images, sketches, files.
• Platforms: macOS, iOS.
• Price: free + subscription (949 rubles per year).

Probably the cutest and friendliest note-taking app that, despite its seeming simplicity, boasts extensive capabilities. Bear supports Markdown and allows you to quickly create posts with a wide variety of content, including sketches and files.

Thanks to the function of linking notes and a powerful system of hashtags that replace folders, all notes can be easily organized by projects, work areas and any other criteria. Bear offers several skins, rich formatting and export options, and also has a web clipper for the browser.

The app is free to use, but you'll need to subscribe to enable sync with the mobile version, get additional themes and more export formats.

2. Notion

• Types of notes: text, lists, tables, images, files.
• Platforms: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, web.
• Price: Free + subscription ($ 48 per year).

A minimalistic yet powerful note-taking tool with to-do lists, kanban boards and knowledge bases. This versatility and modularity allows everyone to sculpt their own ideal tool out of Notion. True, you have to spend some time on setting.

Thanks to a variety of templates and various blocks of content, from which, like building blocks, records are built, in Notion it is convenient to create notes of any complexity and put even the most complex projects on the shelves.

The free version of the application is essentially a trial version and has a limit on the number of notes. A subscription is required for full functionality.

3. OneNote

• Types of notes: text, lists, tables, audio, images, files.
• Platforms: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, web.
• Price: Free + subscription ($ 80 per year).

A classic notepad with tight integration with Microsoft services, which is positioned as a replacement for a regular notepad. The OneNote interface is designed in the spirit of Office applications and will appeal to everyone who uses the company's products.

Just like a paper notebook, OneNote lets you write anywhere on the screen, take handwritten notes with the stylus on supported devices, and insert documents, spreadsheets, and media. For structuring, a division into notebooks and a tagging system is used.

The app is free to download, but without an Office 365 subscription, some features like dictation and math formulas won't be available.

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4. Google Keep

• Types of notes: text, lists, sketches, audio, images.
• Platforms: iOS, Android, web.
• Price: Free.

Ideal for anyone who just needs notes. Google Keep is like a whiteboard with colorful sticky notes, which is always at hand, only in digital form. The design is as simple and intuitive as possible, nevertheless all the necessary functions such as tags, pinning and reminders are present.

Google Keep is great for short notes, shopping lists, checklists, voice memos, and capturing any ideas on the go. Other advantages include convenient search, text recognition and sharing of selected notes.

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5. Evernote

• Types of notes: text, lists, tables, audio, sketches, images, files.
• Platforms: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, web.
• Price: free + subscription (1,990 rubles per year).

The ancestor of all services for storing and organizing notes is no longer so attractive against the background of many fast-growing competitors. And yet it still offers great features, unless you are confused by the subscription price.

With Evernote, you can create notes of any complexity, adding tables, files and entire web pages to them. The system of separate notebooks and tags allows you to catalog the accumulated database of records, and a convenient search makes it easy to find everything you need.

In the free version, the application is very limited, so for more or less serious work, you cannot do without a subscription.

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6. Simplenote

• Types of notes: text, lists.
• Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, web.
• Price: Free.

A minimalistic solution for true connoisseurs of simplicity. Simplenote is not designed for complex notes, supplemented by files, and only allows you to work with ordinary text notes, but it does it perfectly well.

The main advantages of the application are Markdown support, built-in layout preview mode, and file version history. There are only tags for organizing notes, but for a completely free cross-platform tool, that's enough.

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Simplenote Automattic

7. Apple notes

• Types of notes: text, lists, tables, sketches, images.
• Platforms: macOS, iOS, web.
• Price: Free.

Over the years, branded notes of the Apple ecosystem have grown from very basic notes to a fully functional and user-friendly service that can satisfy any needs of the majority of users.

"Notes" are available on all devices of the company, instantly sync between them and allow you to create formatted notes with attachments of various types. Folders and subfolders are used for sorting, there is also sharing and protection of notes with a password.

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8. Zoho Notebook

• Types of notes: text, lists, sketches, images, files.
• Platforms: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, web.
• Price: Free.

A laconic note-book that will appeal to those who value beauty in addition to functionality. Zoho Notebook looks amazing and with its bright covers alone gives the feeling of working with paper notebooks in which you want to write.

At the same time, the application is not limited to text and sketches. You can add images and files to all notes, as well as make voice recordings. Basic formatting, a reminder function and a password lock for important information are available.

Notebook - Take Notes, Sync Zoho Corporation

Notebook - Take Notes Zoho Corporation

Notebook - Take Notes, Sync Zoho Corporation

Notebook - Take Notes, Sync Zoho Corporation

9. Dropbox Paper

• Types of notes: text, lists, images, files.
• Platforms: iOS, Android, web.
• Price: Free.

Free service from Dropbox, which is positioned as a simple but functional solution for various notes with the ability to collaborate on documents.

In addition to rich text, tables, and checklists, you can insert files into notes not only from Dropbox, but also from many other services. Among them are Google Drive, YouTube, Pinterest and even Spotify. When working in a team, it is convenient to mark colleagues and discuss a project in the built-in chat.

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Dropbox Paper Dropbox, Inc.

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10. WorkFlowy

• Types of notes: text, lists.
• Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, web.
• Price: Free + subscription ($ 50 per year).

Quite an unusual option with an interface of endless tree-like lists, which can be placed one into another, collapsed and turned into separate records by clicking on the marker.

WorkFlowy is good for outlines and a lot of textual notes linked together. Tags are not displayed separately in the application, but they are searchable. It is also possible to export records and access them by link.

The free version has a limit of 100 notes per month. Subscription removes it and also adds item backups to Dropbox, password protection, additional themes and fonts.

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Workflowy - Notes, Lists, Outlines WorkFlowy