Simplenote

The best note taking app I've used so simple, useful and effective I've been using it since 2010

Simplenote is what it says. A nice simple application with strong cross platform support on desktop and mobile for keeping and synchronizing your notes.

Have been using this for years and LOVE IT. It is super fast and easy to add quick notes or lists. Tagging is great and enables you to easily find things.

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It’s not a secure site and sometimes it doesn’t update some notes for a while, but usually it’s instant. I have hundreds of notes. Its so well designed!

I had tried everything to sync my to-do lists between my work MacBook and home PC, even a convoluted series of .txt files in synced folders in Dropbox. Nothing worked until I found Simplenote three years ago. I’ve used it every day since. All the features I want and none I don’t. Rare to find a product that stays good for this long! Thank you Automattic!

The only thing this app is supposed to do is sync notes, between collaborators. My husband and I tried to share a single note for over an hour with no success. Waste of time.

Sometimes a "simple" app like this works beautifully. My husband and I collaborate to share our medical and prescription info. All text notes are working well. HOWEVER I really wish adding a photo isn't so complicated. I read through instructions on how to do it and decided not to even try. I'd love to add pics of our insurance cards, for instance. I'd consider a fee or subscription to be able to do this. I'd give it 5 stars then!

I got this app because I recently switched from android to iphone, and I couldn’t find a way to transfer my notes between interfaces. The easiest way was just to move them all to a third-party app. I love the simple interface, and especially the fact that it’s free! There’s no annoying paywall where they try to sell you extra features. I just really, really wish there was a way to lock or hide specific notes. You can set a passcode to lock the whole app, but not specific notes. I have things like Christmas lists and personal notes that I don’t want anyone to see, but I don’t want the trouble of having to enter a password every time I want to look at my to-do list or other notes that don’t need to be hidden. If it just had that one feature, it would be 5 stars!

I’ve used SN for years across iOS, MacOS, and Windows. It served my needs, albeit with quirks and limitations. I figured further development would iron those out. Seems Automattic isn’t interested in really updating this app, and its limitations are too tiresome for me to work with any longer.