great replacement for Notes

Simple on the surface, but tags, collaboration and sharing make it secretly a lot more powerful than Apple’s native Notes app. The fact that it only supports plain text is a plus, not a minus.

Only negative I can think of: sync doesn’t happen in the background. If you make a change offline (in the subway, in my case), that change doesn’t get synced until you OPEN the app while connected to the network. Notes, by contrast, takes advantage of iCloud background syncing to sync in the background on its own.

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