 Hey everyone, welcome back to the channel note-taking isn't really something that I'm really all that great at but recently I've as I've tried to get better at making videos Successfully or unsuccessfully. I find myself looking more towards being prepared for each one And it doesn't really seem to matter how much I'm prepared. This is the fourth time. I've shot this video This is also the last time I'm going to attempt to shoot this bit video, so If you see this I've succeeded if you don't see this. Well, then I'm just sitting here talking to myself like a douchebag Anyways today, I'm going to look through five of the best note-taking apps that I've personally looked at I should just say that I've obviously not looked at all the note-taking apps out there. That'd be pretty much impossible There's a ton of them So these are just the five that I've chosen that I've found that work fairly well I should also say that I've tried to keep these down to just simple note-taking apps But I've not succeeded with two of them So the last two that I'll talk about do way more than just note-taking apps, especially the last one so Let's go ahead and jump into the main screen here And this is the first one I want to talk about this is Joplin J O P L I N all the links for these will be in the show notes or in the description Basically Joplin is just a regular note-taking app. This is the fullest featured note-taking app I have on the list that is just a note-taking app It has multiple notebooks. It has tagging. It has full markdown support I mean like actually full markdown support you do markdown. It shows you the preview right over here I mean, this is literally how markdown is done Some of the other ones around this list either have markdown editors that you would have to then pay for which is weird or partial markdown support in the case of the next one or Weird markdown support in cases in the cases in that just has some weird syntax that you would have to get used to That's different than regular markdown The Android app for Joplin is also The best of the bunch out of all these is pretty much that feature parody with the desktop app and it's very well-designed Just like this as a simple UI you just you know create notes and you can do text, you know to do lists and You know, it's just very very easy to go through and do we owe I I believe I Don't actually know markdown, which is kind of embarrassing. I do know I Think this is the list item. Yeah, and yeah, it's just full. It's just very easy You can also go through and do a regular like what you see is what you get editing, which is great That's not something that you can do in the other applications now There are some things that I should mention this first it doesn't follow your GTK theme So the GTK theme is looks like this. This is what Joplin looks like. It doesn't follow it Whether that bothers you or not, that's really up to you it bothers me a little bit also It's slow it's because this is a snap it's kind of slow now That's actually much faster than normally lunches off a cold boot It can take upwards of 25 to 30 seconds in order to actually load I don't know whether or not that's because this is on a VM Or if it's because it's a snap or if it's just Joplin itself that's slow I'm not sure I Can't test it on arch because the arch bait or the arch package is broken That's another thing if you use arch you'll have to figure out how to get it through snap because the arch Packages in the AUR is just not it takes forever to build and when it does finally successfully build You can't launch that so That's just disappointing because I'd actually like to have Joplin on my system because that's the one that I would use To transfer back and forth between my Android phone and this one All right, so the next one on the list is called simple note The first time I shot this I had all of them open up and I just switched between them this time I did not do that now this of all the Apps on this list. This is the most simple of them Hence the word simple note right in the simple right and then the title of it It has some markdown support like I can it will do list items But you have to go into this little eye button here and turn it on In order for it to actually be functional It also does have tags like a but they hide it all the way down here I don't even know if you can see this on the screen. It might even been blocked off But down here at the bottom you can do you can add tags. That's it That's literally the entire functionality of this. There is oh, I should go back to job on Joplin just real quick On syncing on Joplin, you can sync via a Joplin account or you can sync with Dropbox Google Drive I think next cloud all those are options and that's it has Joplin also has the best syncing functionality out of all these anyways This one here also has syncing since simple note has syncing but it requires a Wordpress account, so just keep that in mind I'm I go back and forth on whether or not that's a good thing or a bad thing But all pretty much any of these to have syncing capabilities requires some kind of account, so I Really can't knock it, but wordpress kind of has its own kind of a reputation. So just keep that in mind So the next one is called standard notes and this is what this one looks like now this one I have a love-hate relationship with I like the design. I like the the Android app But It's very minimal with what you get with a free app, so The free version here only comes with a plan editor, so no markdown. It does have session history, which is great And you don't have to pay for that, which is good And it requires a few options That you can do if you want anything more than that you have to pay for it now I'm all for developers getting paid. I think you know they deserve to get paid, but This one's not just like a hey, here's $20. You know you have all the features in my app This is hey, here's $5 per month and you get all the features in my app, and that's not great for me Just give me you know let me pay for all the features and then if you want to pay You know if then I want to like have syncing functionality or some kind of storage system or whatever in the cloud Then I would pay for the buffers features. I just it's just Not the greatest thing for me Probably the best thing about this one is the versioning So if you you know make a mistake or something or you want to go back So it's kind of like Vim versioning So you can actually go back in time to something that you've you know saved previously And that's cool So the next one is Zim and this one here Let's sit here So this is in and this is the one that I'm the most familiar with and This is probably the least note-taking app on the list Mainly because it's mostly a actually a wiki-maker. So it's kind of a replace a gooey replacement for Vim wiki Basically, what you do is you create a higher higher archical can't talk words hard Of you know links linked pages These are all like text files basically with some markdown support and you can go back between You know these pages and just click on them and it does have tags and things like that But this has no syncing of any kind So it's desktop only and it's not It's more based on Organizing yourself and organizing your notes than actually the note-taking process I Use it for journaling. I also use it for doing outlines and stuff like that for you know my writing and Scripts and stuff. Oh, I have been using notion To do the out of the scripting lately anyways, that is Vim and The next one or the last one is called Trillium This one is this app is crazy. I mean this app is just absolutely insane I can't even begin to go over the features that this thing has Just I mean It's the most complex app on list as tons of options and organization and such, you know, it can do Let's see if I can find I Can never find Things when I need to find them and it's because it's very if So it has different charts. So this is a relationship chart It can do like graphs and stuff, you know, it does Good tagging down here at the bottom It does have a syncing service, but it's desktop only there's no Application for Android or iOS as far as I know for iOS. I know there's not one for Android But the syncing is basically desktop to desktop it runs kind of like a server kind of thing So you can access it via a port on through your through your network That's fine. I didn't get a chance to try that out because I only have you know This one computer that I actually want to do this on but this this one here by far has the most Options and configurations and things that you can do with it, you know tabs and all that kind of stuff So mind mapping relationship mapping other types of notes are available task managers word count with widgets It does let me see if I can find Where's that like this here if you're a coder this is probably great because it actually has syntax highlighting within the app That's really cool. I'm not sure what language is it that supports this here. It looks like it's I'm actually not sure that might that might be CSS actually Which is weird, but anyways It just has tons and tons of options tons of tons of settings And more than I've you know explored it does not follow any kind of theming on your site This is what it looks like whether you have You know some kind of GTK theme installed or not. I do believe it has a light theme. I don't know I'm not quite sure. I think this is the way it comes out of the box. Oh, this is JavaScript Let's see it says so right here Here's the ones that it supports plain text C C++ C sharp CSS go groovy and Haskell Oh and HTML HTTP Java JS JS front and back and JSON Kotlin Markdown Pearl PHP Python Ruby is SQL SQL light Swift Swift even XML and YAML. Wow. That's quite a few of them. Awesome. So you can use this to code I'm not sure why you'd want to but you could I'm not sure. Hey, like it has any auto complete functionality or anything like that. So, you know, give it a try I'm not a coder. So I really can't tell answer those questions for you It is pretty fat for all the stuff that it does here. It's pretty fast I mean, it's faster than Joplin is which is you know, not really all saying all that much. All right so That is It for my list No taking apps for me are kind of like distros the next to shows used to be I Switch between them all the time. I've stuck with Zim quite for, you know, several several months And I'll probably continue to use it because I have all my stuff there But I like switching back and forth. I like springs news things So if you have a note-taking app that you've enjoyed and that's not on the list list Send it along in the comments because I'd probably be interested in checking it out I would also like to say that if the audio on this video is bad. I apologize for that too. I'm having some audio problems. I Have a new audio interface and it's not supported by Linux and it's just messing with my life. It's About 30 seconds away from being returned to Amazon and I'm going back to USB like I was before Screw wanting to use this awesome mic. 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