UpNote

Feb 22, 2023 ∞

UpNote - the Best Notes App You Probably Haven't Heard Of

Updated on 26 Feb 2023

I used Notionas my primary information manager for a long time.

But was not happy with how slow it is.

Tried out various note-taking and productivity apps like Logseq, Obsidian, Tana, NotePlan, Craft and UpNote in recent times.

Obsidian is like Visual Studio Code. Infinitely powerful and extensible. But this is at the expense of snappiness. It doesn’t feel as fast as UpNote which is like Sublime Text. Also, the fact that we can’t have slashes in note titles in Obsidian irks me. Trying out all its community plugins could be a never-ending thing. Using iCloud for sync was problematic and I don’t want to pay $8/month for the official sync.
Tana is pretty fast but is not production-ready for my needs at this time. No mobile apps and no web clipper.
I wasn't too thrilled with the looks of NotePlan and its industrial/raw feeling. Also, it's not zippy enough for me.
Craft is the most beautiful Apple-esq of all and it does a remarkable job of keeping the editor clean w/o the bullet points in spite of being block-based. Has good back linking and tabs, but not tags.

While all the mentioned apps are great in their own right, it boiled down to these two: Craft and UpNote and frankly, Iam torn between the two.