Jot down your thoughts, save images of things you need to remember, and keep everything at your fingertips on all of your devices with the top note-taking apps we've tested.

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After years of committing to an all-digital writing system, I’m coming back around to physical notebooks. I can recall more of what I write by hand than what I type into the Notes app, and I like ...

Note-taking apps are a dime a dozen, and each one often tries to outdo the others, offering tons of features, 90% of which you'll never use. I use Obsidian as my primary note-taking app, but when I ...

What makes any person’s Notes app so revealing is that its contents have no audience. Unlike social media, it’s not intended for public consumption; unlike a text, it’s not even intended for one other ...

I've tested everything from TVs to phones, PCs, tablets and more. If you’re an assiduous notetaker, you know that it’s hard to put a price on a great writing tablet. The best writing and note-taking ...

We are bombarded by distractions every moment of every day. Some of them are of our own making; others are basically unavoidable. As I sat writing this story my Fitbit reminded me to get up and move, ...