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Obsidian over Evernote, Standard Notes, Simple Note & Logseq

Over the last few months, I was again looking for some “better” notetaking solutions. I re-tried tools like Standard Notes, Simple Note, Logseq, Evernote, and a few others that I don’t even remember.

After trying all these tools for 2-3 days, I came back to Obsidian as no other tool was offering me what Obsidian offers.

In this post, I will explain what I disliked about Evernote, Simple Note, Standard Notes, and Logseq. And why I chose Obsidian.

Problems with notetaking apps that I tried

Let’s go through each of them one by one…

1. Evernote

To me, Evernote doesn’t feel like a writing app, it feels like an information storing app, information that you save for future reference while browsing the internet.

Some of the things that I don’t like about Evernote are:

I still use Evernote to store articles, images, and PDFs for future references as it provides search functionalities which is not provided by any other notetaking tool.

But I don’t write inside Evernote.

2. Simple Note

While Simple Note is a very clean, intuitive, and completely free notetaking tool, it’s not reliable. It’s created by Automattic and it’s not a dedicated note-taking platform so if in the future they don’t see it going anywhere, they might easily decide to kill the project.

Here are some things that I don’t like about Simple Note:

However, I really like the fact about Simple Note is that it is 100% free to use and provides a multi-device sync feature. You can even make notes public and share them as a URL.

3. Standard Notes

Another great product, the main highlight is it enables you to take 1000% encrypted notes. I tried the free version but it didn’t work for me.

Here are some things why I didn’t go with it:

Again, Standard Notes provides a multi-device sync feature which I really like.

4. Logseq

I was very happy when I discovered the Logseq tool, but it didn’t work for me either.

The interface is very clean and intuitive but it’s just that not being able to write long-form content is the deal-breaker for me.

But why Obsidian?

I have been using Obsidian for a few years now and the things I love about the tool are:

And I don’t think there are any negative things about Obsidian that I can think of.

What do you think? What tool do you use?

Let me know in the comments below.