There's Standard Notes which deals with privacy and security. There's Simplenote which is pretty much what it says. Note that the Joplin phone app is best just for reference.

I currently use Joplin because I'm a big Markdown nut and it will put the data in the Apps folder of Dropbox, plus Trello (for quick notes and reminders and general organization, it's fairly powerful) and Dropbox for PDFs, and they together scratch most of my itches. So my 'answer' will just be a long list of things I've looked at to make sure you're aware of them all. Then again, my complete list hasn't been hit yet either. Well, I'm kind of a devotee of note organizers, but I'm not sure anything hits all your wanted points. What tool should I be using? posted by philosophygeek to Computers & Internet (10 answers total) 7 users marked this as a favorite OneNote ignores punctuation like that when searching. Emacs orgmode did this really well, with just putting tags in a list with colons :tag1:tag2:tag3. I prefer to be able to create tags organically.

I prefer how folders work on a desktop - I can have arbitrary depth, and there's no magic difference between how a folder works at level X vs X+1, compared to the radical change between a section and a note.ĥ) I strongly dislike how limited tags and search are in OneNote. OneNote is really close to the perfect tool for me but not quite, so let me explain what I like and don't like:ġ) I love that I can just hit a shortcut key (Win-N) and immediately start capturing a new note.Ģ) I like that I can save text, screenshots, PDFs, and web pages.ģ) I worry that I can't export data in a non-proprietary format, if I switch tools in the future or if Microsoft does something weird to OneNoteĤ) I strongly dislike OneNote's 'filing' philosophy - I find it really hard to search through long lists of notes/subnotes, and the section/section grouping is too fixed. I've previously asked a question that was more oriented to my research database this question is about day-to-day notes and reference material, which is a slightly easier use case.

Evernote onenote tags vs pages