App Alternatives & Comparisons
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Which Note-Taking Apps Keep Your Notes as Plain Markdown Files
With Obsidian and Notable, your notes are saved as plain Markdown files; you can access them at any time and from anywhere without needing to use either app. A program that allows you to export your Markdown notes has different benefits than using the actual app that you create your notes in: when that program exports your notes, it is…
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Notion vs Obsidian: How Each App Stores and Exports Your Notes
While comparing Notion and Obsidian, it becomes clear that the most significant difference isn’t in how they work but how they store your notes. Notion stores your notes in a cloud-based workspace and will only create a physical copy of your notes if you specifically request it to do so. On the other hand, Obsidian automatically saves your notes as…
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Evernote Alternatives: What Each One Can Import From Your Existing Notebooks
While we have popular names being Obsidian, Joplin, Notion, OneNote, and Apple Notes appearing on most lists of “best alternatives” to Evernote, it’s the specifics about what each option can pull from your existing notebooks that determines the best fit; none of these sites take into consideration the different meanings associated with what they mean by “way in.” Only through…
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Note-Taking Apps for Android Tablets: Stylus Handling and Export Compared
When trying to find the best note-taking app for an Android tablet, you will find that the best application to write with is also the most difficult application to leave behind. The five best pen apps are Samsung Notes, OneNote, Google Keep, Notability, and Noteshelf; however, they are all different in less than a minute once the writing gets started…
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Choosing a Note App That Works on iPhone, Android and the Web
The phrase “Works on iPhone, Android, and the web” contains three separate statements about one application (you can install the app on all three), one account that can be accessed from all three devices and share one note among them, and one copy of your notes that you can export out of the app yourself. Because each of those components…
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