Looking For OneNote Alternative For Commonplace Book

[Free Mind]

I'm looking for a highly effective commonplace book from a credible software company. I don't want to rely on an old version of Microsoft OneNote to save all my content on a hard drive. I'm not interested in gimmicky apps or flimsy software from small businesses unless they have tons of positive reviews and are anecdotally known to be reliable. I also don't want any cloud-based services. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm on MacBook by the way so things from the App Store are fine. 

[JosephKnecht]

Notion.so 

They have a desktop version. 

[Free Mind]

35 minutes ago, JosephKnecht said:

Notion.so 

They have a desktop version. 

Thanks. Will check it out.

[Preety_India]

@Free Mind I am also looking for something similar and I can't find. Also I don't want it to take up space on my phone because I only use the phone 

 

 

[The0Self]

Damn, all I use is the Notes app on my iPhone. Hundreds upon hundreds of pages (actually probably thousands) that I’ll probably never read. If it’s important, you’ll remember it... I do anyway.

[Free Mind]

1 hour ago, The0Self said:

Damn, all I use is the Notes app on my iPhone. Hundreds upon hundreds of pages (actually probably thousands) that I’ll probably never read. If it’s important, you’ll remember it... I do anyway.

Well it depends on the kind of notes you keep and for what purpose. 

[Preety_India]

@The0Self does it eat the memory/storage data of your phone. 

 

[The0Self]

@Preety_India not at all. Text doesn’t really take up much space compared to music, images, and videos.

[The0Self]

@Preety_India Oh, and how could I forget.. I also use the voice recorder function ("Voice Memos"), and THAT does take up quite a bit of storage.

[Preety_India]

@The0Self yea those can use storage. 

 

[Yog]

Man.... Notion... Notion is porn.
It would be unwise to skip looking into it.

[UnbornTao]

Scrivener recently received a huge upgrade. I've used it on Mac for a few months and it's great. Perhaps better suited for long-form content such as books.

Edited February 14, 2024 by UnbornTao

[levani]

bro no offence no one is probably interesting in your cloud, you're one in a billion individuals on this planet and not that special probably (no offence), and the cloud is as safe as the wifi you're on right now

 

i have an iphone + macbook and i sync all of my Pages (app) on it and it looks like this, i just click on whatever I need in whichever folder I need

 

it's one app called Pages

 

all of my exercises are on there as well btw, all the pdf's, everything + Books (app) is next to it for whenever i wanna read

Edited November 24, 2020 by levani

[Mada_]

I'm using Evernote for a while 

[Free Mind]

13 hours ago, Conscious Water said:

I was where you were about a month ago. Wanting a commonplace book, not liking the cloud-only storage option for OneNote. Did some research on this forum and found Outline for Mac. Allows for cloud or local storage, awesome organizational system, really not too different from OneNote at all. A true gem. It's $40 USD and there is a student discount available as well. There's a free 30 day trial which gives you full access to try it out. I've been using it for a few months now and I'd definitely recommend it.

Hope this was helpful!

This is very nice. Thanks