Notesnook is the Best New App I've Seen in a While
There are many, many notes apps available for Mac users, from simple plain text notebooks to complex PKM managers. I thought I was familiar with the main players, but I just discovered an app with which I was unfamiliar, and I am blown away by its features. The app is Notesnook, and it reminds me very much of Evernote before it was enshittified. It's a privacy lover's dream app with features that anyone can love:
- Notes importer
- Automatic 2FA
- End to end encryption
- Mac, web and iOS apps
- Web clipper
- Pro plan is 34% of what Evernote costs and $10 for educational users
Notesnook provides real time syncing for free and paid accounts. The free plan offers plain text exporting and the pro plan lets you export notes to other apps as PDF, Markdown or HTML, unlike Evernote which has a proprietary format. It has unlimited storage and offers unlimited notebooks and tags in the pro plan.
Other notable features include:
- Offline access
- Unlimited devices
- Images and attachments
- Wikilinks
- Three different 2FA options
- Shortcut integration
- RTF and Markdown formatting
- Tables
- Callouts
- Reminders
- Encrypted backups
- Widgets
- Shares extensions
- Mobile web clipper
I will continue to use Obsidian for journaling and as an automated life record, but I'm moving my work notes, serial numbers, financial info and other reference material over to Notesnook.