68+ Note-Taking Apps: Find Your Perfect Digital Brain!

Tiago Forte • May 26, 2022

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Want to build your own Second Brain? Get Tiago's full system here: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/foundation We evaluated 50+ digital notetaking apps. Then, we organized them all into four notetaking styles. Which will you pick? 🍱 Check out Keep Productive for more app-specific insights: https://www.youtube.com/c/keepproductive WATCH THE FULL SERIES • PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dDVtJ2sec • PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTg3fCr1WaY • PART 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OywdK-GIDnw • PART 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOS53fSDqVw CHAPTERS 00:00 - Part 3: Pick Your Notes App Series 00:31 - NOTES APPS FOR LIBRARIANS 00:45 - Evernote 01:22 - OneNote 01:54 - Google Keep 02:32 - Amplenote 02:56 - DEVONthink 03:14 - Supernotes 03:27 - Inkdrop 03:47 - Nimbus Note 04:03 - Zotero 04:17 - Reference Apps (Librarians Archetype) 04:22 - NOTES APPS FOR ARCHITECTS 04:31 - Notion 05:06 - Craft 05:32 - Obsidian 05:46 - Dendron 06:00 - Walling 06:16 - Microsoft Loop 06:26 - UpNote 06:37 - Clover 06:53 - Bundled Notes 07:11 - Mind Maps / Knowledge Palaces (Architect Archetype) 07:15 - Zettlr 07:19 - TiddlyWiki 07:24 - Marginnote 07:29 - Tinderbox 07:35 - TheBrain 07:50 - NOTES APPS FOR GARDENERS 08:02 - Roam Research 08:39 - Obsidian 09:24 - Logseq 09:45 - Mem 10:05 - Athens Research 10:20 - Reflect 10:36 - Saga 10:47 - Organizedly 10:51 - Tangent Notes 11:02 - Weavit 11:10 - Hypernotes 11:21 - Spaced Repetition / Serendipity (Gardener Archetype) 11:42 - RemNote 11:59 - Readwise 12:38 - Napkin 12:48 - Visual Spacial / Infinite Canvases (Gardener Archetype) 13:03 - mymind 13:05 - Heptabase 13:07 - Scrintal 13:09 - Kinopio 13:11 - Muse 13:12 - Kosmik 13:14 - Milanote 13:22 - NOTES APPS FOR STUDENTS 13:42 - Apple Notes 14:07 - Simplenote 14:18 - Google Docs 14:48 - Bear 14:55 - Dropbox Paper 15:04 - Microsoft Word 15:14 - Notability 15:16 - GoodNotes 15:18 - Marginnote 15:20 - Concepts 15:23 - Workflowy 15:25 - Dynalist 15:35 - Nuclino 15:38 - Drafts 15:49 - Notejoy 15:52 - Notational Velocity 15:58 - HackMD 16:04 - Nota 16:09 - Standard Notes 16:16 - Agenda 16:22 - Writing Apps (Student Archetype) 16:35 - Scrivener 16:40 - Ulysses App 16:42 - iA Writer 16:47 - All 68 Apps 16:52 - How to start using your notes app? ---------------------------------------- 💌 Join our weekly newsletter for more productivity tips and resources https://fortelabs.com/subscribe/ 📚ORDER MY BEST-SELLING BOOKS 🧠 Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/book 📂The PARA Method: Simplify, Organize, and Master Your Digital Life: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/para 👩‍🎓 TAKE MY SELF-PACED COURSES 1️⃣ Pillars of Productivity: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/pop 2️⃣ BASB Foundation: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/foundation 🤓 TEST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY POTENTIAL Take our Productivity Pulse Check to evaluate your daily habits and find out where you can make improvements. Take the quiz now: https://fortelabs.typeform.com/pulsecheck?utm_source=youtube 👋 CONNECT WITH ME 📬 My weekly newsletter: https://fortelabs.com/subscribe 👩‍💻 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagoforte/ 🌐 My website: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ 💌 My blog: https://fortelabs.com/blog/ 🐦‍⬛ X: http://x.com/fortelabs 🟦 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fortelabs 🤳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortelabsco/