Ask HN: What note taking app do you use and why?

Note Taking Personal Notes Todos

NotePlan Landing Page
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NotePlan

Make plans inside an individual markdown note for every day in your calendar. Use it as a journal for your daily tasks and plan todos in advance. For Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Productivity #Todos 35 social mentions
Simplenote Landing Page
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Simplenote

The simplest way to keep notes. Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, and the web.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I use https://simplenote.com - Syncs across multiple platforms. - Plaintext based (with MD support). - Search + edit UI similar to https://notational.net and https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt - Simple to publish/share notes - Free (as in beer and speech) --- If I used MacOS or there were web versions, I would love to use the following (they are all better at plaintext than SimpleNote): - https://getdrafts.com (best text manipulation + actions) - https://www.taskpaper.com (best tagging/querying system!) - https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike (supposedly best plaintext editing experience) --- Some day I will build my own plaintext notes/bookmarks/tasks app that is a mashup of: - TaskPaper - Drafts - nvAlt - SimpleNote - https://www.bkmks.com.

#Note Taking #Task Management #Project Management 83 social mentions
Notational Velocity Landing Page
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Notational Velocity

Notational Velocity: modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application
Pricing:
- Open Source
I use https://simplenote.com - Syncs across multiple platforms. - Plaintext based (with MD support). - Search + edit UI similar to https://notational.net and https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt - Simple to publish/share notes - Free (as in beer and speech) --- If I used MacOS or there were web versions, I would love to use the following (they are all better at plaintext than SimpleNote): - https://getdrafts.com (best text manipulation + actions) - https://www.taskpaper.com (best tagging/querying system!) - https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike (supposedly best plaintext editing experience) --- Some day I will build my own plaintext notes/bookmarks/tasks app that is a mashup of: - TaskPaper - Drafts - nvAlt - SimpleNote - https://www.bkmks.com.

#Note Taking #Personal Notes #Productivity 17 social mentions
Drafts Landing Page

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Drafts

Quickly capture text on iOS and send it anywhere

I use https://simplenote.com - Syncs across multiple platforms. - Plaintext based (with MD support). - Search + edit UI similar to https://notational.net and https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt - Simple to publish/share notes - Free (as in beer and speech) --- If I used MacOS or there were web versions, I would love to use the following (they are all better at plaintext than SimpleNote): - https://getdrafts.com (best text manipulation + actions) - https://www.taskpaper.com (best tagging/querying system!) - https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike (supposedly best plaintext editing experience) --- Some day I will build my own plaintext notes/bookmarks/tasks app that is a mashup of: - TaskPaper - Drafts - nvAlt - SimpleNote - https://www.bkmks.com.

#Note Taking #Personal Notes #Notes 75 social mentions
nvALT Landing Page
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nvALT

A fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications
Pricing:
- Open Source
I use https://simplenote.com - Syncs across multiple platforms. - Plaintext based (with MD support). - Search + edit UI similar to https://notational.net and https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt - Simple to publish/share notes - Free (as in beer and speech) --- If I used MacOS or there were web versions, I would love to use the following (they are all better at plaintext than SimpleNote): - https://getdrafts.com (best text manipulation + actions) - https://www.taskpaper.com (best tagging/querying system!) - https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike (supposedly best plaintext editing experience) --- Some day I will build my own plaintext notes/bookmarks/tasks app that is a mashup of: - TaskPaper - Drafts - nvAlt - SimpleNote - https://www.bkmks.com.

#Note Taking #Personal Notes #Notes 12 social mentions