ok ok ok ok i'm done being a complainy little freak about notion. im switching my """""productivity"""""" software to joplin. i've tried and re-tried out a bunch of softwares1 in the past few days again and to get my ass off of notion i was willing to have to shell out if i needed to2, but so many of these softwares cost so much or lack significant features i absolutely required3.
joplin is incredibly bare bones but gives the most of what i need and with the least amount of friction toward me putting my thoughts down on "paper" as fast as possible and for the most financially do-able. i need to get better with markdown but i should be doing that already4.
the only downside is that i gotta go basically hand-import almost all of my documents because notion's data exports are a fucking joke. the nice bit is now that if i end up switching to another software again, all my documents will actually be in pure markdown so i won't suffer like this ever again.
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i looked at simplenote, obsidian, standardnotes, anytype, wavemaker, scrivener, and IAwriter. i also tried a lot of other things that were still in development or have an ios app planned but because i need something to use Now, i don't want to wait for one of these to appear.
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simplenote is free forever. joplin is base free, cloud sync for $2.50. obsidan is base free, cloud sync for $10 a month or $96 a year. standardnotes is base free, cloud sync is free, but plaintext only unless you pay $90 a year, 14 day return policy. anytype is currently free, unknown what the pricing will be when it goes to 1.0, but you will have up to 1 GB of space guaranteed free on launch for an individual i think. wavemaker is free, more of a writer's software. scrivener on pc costs $50.99 (nanowrimo discounts are open rn though i think), ios costs $23.99. IAwriter is more of a writing software too, pc costs $29.99, ios costs $49.99
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i'm just one guy, i need a productivity software to keep me in check, but i don't need to uwu collabo with a team or anything. my basically big requirement is that i have the ability to use both my pc and my ipad with the software/app. secondary requirement would be that i could use it both as a text processor and a data tracker, as a freelance guy i gotta keep track of my finances after all. my third requirement is that there isn't some dumbshit ai product shoved in there. this third point cut out so many pieces of software would you believe it.
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look ma, i can do footnotes now
