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Notes are nested within custom category tabs; Think color-coded labels on a three-ring binder. You can attach specific notes to meetings through Outlook and prioritize them using multi-level urgency tags. If you’re looking for a “professional” notes app, OneNote is a great option.
Additionally, if you have a Microsoft 365 subscription on desktop, you can take advantage of Microsoft’s Copilot AI integration in A note. The AI assistant can create summaries and to-do lists, gather information from various sources, or simply rewrite your notes to make them clearer and more coherent.
apple notes
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If you use an iPhone, then apple notes It’s an obvious choice. It comes installed on your phone and, like Google Keep, stands out for its simplicity. While there are more advanced features, such as the ability to add attachments and crop text and images from the web, they don’t clutter things up.
Organization is also great if you take the time to set up category folders and nest subfolders within them. If you’ve already gotten used to Apple Notes, there’s no harm in continuing to use it. Oh yeah, and if you’re feeling adventurous, you can dictate notes to Siri; It’s not as knowledgeable as other AI-powered assistants, but it transcribes speech quite well.
Bear
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Meet Apple Notes’ more refined cousin. Bear Notes offers a wealth of styling options that let you change themes, adjust formatting, and play with the typography of your notes. (Is available in iPhones, iPads and Mac computers only). Functionally, Bear Notes works just like any of the other apps on this list, albeit with a lot more style. It brings together all its features in a warm and welcoming style that won Apple Design Award in 2017.
One of the most useful features of Bear is the ability to link notes using tags. He simply tags his thoughts with the appropriate category (work, wedding, books to read) as he writes them down, and Bear will sort them into his appropriate folders. If you feel like your thoughts are coming from everywhere, or if you’re not good at keeping things organized in folders, this can be a great way to keep your digital life in order.
Bear received a big update to version 2 last year, which was a labour of love that gave him a lot of new features. The updated app better organizes tables, has the ability to add footnotes, and offers better searching within notes. All this also wrapped in a more pleasant design.
Bear is a free app, but a Pro version costs $30 per year and offers additional features like custom themes, the ability to sync with iCloud, and the option to export notes in more formats like PDF and HTML.
Evernote
I’m sorry to say, but we can no longer recommend Evernote. Once the most innovative of cloud-based notes apps, Evernote Since then he has become a sad shadow of himself. The app is now a mess that has packed together almost every feature imaginable: group chat, photo transcription, web clipping, and integration with other online services. As a result, it’s much more cumbersome to use than the others on this list when you just want to jot down a simple idea. We were also put off by the sheer volume of pop-up ads that appear over and over again asking you to subscribe to Evernote’s premium tier of $130 per year. (Evernote’s current new parent company, Bending Spoons, fired its the entire American workforce last year.)
Unfortunately, many people still use Evernote and probably feel trapped in its now degraded ecosystem. It can be difficult to switch to a new app, but if you want, it is possible to delete your notes from Evernote. Unfortunately, exporting your stuff from the app has become almost as cumbersome as using the app itself. Still, if you plan to make the change, here’s how to do it: