2 posts tagged with "notetaking"

The personal knowledge management space is crowded. Whether you're organizing research, managing projects, or simply trying to keep your digital life under control, the tool you pick shapes your entire workflow.

In this article we compare five popular options — TagSpaces, Evernote, Notion, Joplin, and Obsidian — across the dimensions that matter most: privacy, pricing, data ownership, collaboration, and extensibility. Our goal is to give you an honest, balanced overview, not a sales pitch.

The article in this blog entry was initially published on 2018-12-07 in artplusmarketing.com. We rediscovered it recently and were under the impression, that the thoughts presented there are more than valid in the current times. So we decided to republish it in our blog (of course with the author's permission). So here the original article:

The problem with Cloud based note-taking apps - and the alternative solution that delivered on its promises​

My quest for a suitable Evernote replacement, after the company decided to restrict access to my own data, proved to be a short one. Soon after publishing Five Evernote alternatives, and how to preserve them in brine (this might not have been the exact title), I have settled on one of the contenders from the same list.

TagSpaces, the application of choice does many things right but surely is unbeatable in one particular: Data access.