

( Evernote was recently acquired by Bending Spoons, which makes apps like Splice ). I’m impressed so far, but it’s a bit complicated to get used to and lacks key features I need like Web clipping & flexible exporting.įor traditionalists: Apple Notes, Google Keep and Evernote are still among the most functional simple free tools for capturing and organizing notes.

It improves on Roam’s approach by making it even easier to link notes and ideas together without confining them to narrow folders. It’s more costly than other tools ($15/month) and its development seems to have stagnated.įor tool explorers: Tana is a notes app still in private beta I expect will grow significantly this year. Dan Shipper of Every.to shared a similar sentiment. But as my digital file cabinet has grown, Roam feels less efficient as a way to get stuff in and out. For researchers: Roam helped advance a new paradigm for notes organized through links, not folders.
