Ali suspects Evernote will stay a big part of his second brain for a long time (2020)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: repeated (2020-08-23) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali promises a dedicated review of GoodNotes versus Notability (2020)
About: Evernote, Roam Research, second brain
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-14 | predicted | Ali might one day replace Evernote with a new note-taking app and will try apps like Roam Research, but suspects Evernote will be a big part of his second brain for a long time. (hedged) | My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) 00:03:55 |
| 2020-05-05 | repeated | Ali still uses Evernote: no app handles everything you throw at it as well, and it is the long-term memory of his second brain. | My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? 00:08:08 |
| 2020-08-23 | repeated | Evernote forms the base long-term memory layer of Ali's note-taking system. | The Perfect Note-Taking App 00:07:56 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — recommendation: Ali calls Ulysses, a writing app for iPad and Mac only, the nicest writing experience he has ever had, and opens it for long-form writing such as his weekly email newsletter. — 00:04:35
- 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali thinks his weekly email newsletter, Sunday Snippets, is at issue 95. (hedged) — 00:05:05
- 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali describes Bear as a cross between Drafts and Ulysses: a good catch-all note-taking app and a nice Markdown writing experience that can publish to PDF, text or Word documents, WordPress and Ghost. — 00:05:34
- 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali: Listening to a podcast at the gym, such as a Tim Ferriss episode with Jim Collins, Ali might take a few notes in Bear on his iPhone, noting the timestamp of each point. — 00:06:03
- 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali does not use Bear much any more: Drafts has largely replaced it for him because Drafts runs on the Apple Watch and has amazing dictation features. — 00:06:03
- 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — recommendation: Ali uses Notability for handwritten notes, because the other note-taking apps he uses have poor Apple Pencil support. — 00:06:32
- 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali: In a lecture Ali writes his notes by hand in Notability because, he says, there is lots of evidence that handwriting notes is better for retention and understanding than typing them while listening. — 00:06:32
- 2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali has GoodNotes installed but, after extensive testing of both, decided Notability was better. — 00:07:02