To that point, let’s start by talking about EverNote. Everyone learns differently, and every app is built around a specific set of tools that may or may not fit the way you retain knowledge. However, I also want to talk about some of the up-and-coming apps and features that are driving change within the industry.įirst things first, you need to understand that what might be the perfect note-taking application for me might not be the perfect app for you. Well I’ll be focusing on the “big two” note-taking apps, Evernote and Notion first. So is there a single perfect notetaking app? With all this in mind, let’s take a look at how well each app fulfills these needs. It's not just about passively taking notes it's about creating a process that makes your life easier. For example if you're planning a vacation you want to store ideas as you research trip ideas but then when you come back later you want what you've stored to make booking travel and accommodation easy. One key thing I want to point out here is that the end goal is to have a system that makes executing as easy as possible. Third, we have studying, or what I like to call “Personal Knowledge Management.” This is how you master new topics and subjects throughout your life. This is mostly collaboration-focused, and it’s ideal for running a business, managing your team, or working on a school project with a group of other people. Life Management is sort of a macro view on note taking, where you want the app to help you schedule your day, take notes of ideas and inspirations, or, let’s say, plan a vacation across Europe. For me there are really three reasons to use a notetaking app: life management, productivity management and personal knowledge management. I want you to keep that in the back of your mind as we go through the note-taking applications and which ones are best suited to accomplishing that goal. In short: when using these apps I’ve focused on how they can save time and maximize results simultaneously. Note taking apps have become more complex with collaboration features and AI organisation as they try to stand out and make our lives easier but this can lead to over-complication and a paradox of choice.
These are capturing information, storing information and organizing information all so I can come back and quickly use this information for a particular project at a later date.
There are really three levels to what I want to achieve. Over the last 15 years I’ve used everything from physical diaries and bits of paper to word and pretty much every note taking app you can think of to store and organize information which I can then come back to and use.įor me, personally, I simply want a system that allows me to capture and organise information which I can then come back to whether that is active recall questions to revise for an exam, storing key learning points from a business book I’m reading or mapping out a to-do list. We've all been in that annoying situation where you've read or researched something, haven't saved it and then had to go through the whole process again whether it's searching for flights, studying for an exam or publishing to socials. If you want to stay productive you need to be capturing information and storing it in a logical way. With loads of note-taking apps available it can be very confusing hopefully this video saves you a tonne of time when it comes to selecting a note-taking app.
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