Ask HN: Is there a note taking app you're 100% happy with?

No. They all have flaws of some sort.

These days I am finding that nothing beats just pulling out my Mac and putting files in folders. For notes I use TextEdit. I can save PDFs of webpages in the folder, or go into Mail and save emails into the folder. iCloud syncs them between the various Macs well.

I have used Org Mode because it combined notes and task tracking but I found this to be increasingly unwieldy so I separated note taking and task tracking.

I do use the iPhone Notes app for basic things I need while on the go but not for anything fancy.

Good luck sifting through all the various apps but I'm tired of dealing with them.

Bear Notes is almost there at 99%.

Good:

- Elegant

- Fast

- Excellent sync

- Excellent export abilities

- Excellent markup and code markup support

- Good automation possibilities (iOS Shortcuts, x-callback-url, AppleScript)

Bad:

- iOS/macOS only. There's a web version in the works, but I would not count on that ever seeing the light of day.

https://bear.app/

- For knowledge-base organisation - Obsidian. It's a nice program and it works with markdown files with some nice features like a graph view and support for LaTeX equations. I don't need to access these notes on my phone/tablet.

- Anything else i.e. shorter form notes that I want to sync across devices and which don't require fancy formatting or organisation - Apple Notes.

Perfectly happy with both of these for their respective use cases.

Remnote. Previously Zettlr and Markor. My markdown files with their links imported and worked straight away. That, plus the spaced repetition was perfect for me. Also the export to markdown (which does then work in Zettlr) is good. I like the whizziness, similar to Dynalist.

Seconded!