Evernote, OneNote, Quiver, Bear, StandardNotes, BoostNote and more), when I discovered Notion about 18 months ago.įor me, it’s been one of those tools that I love so much that I actively promote it to my colleagues and friends. I had tried many different note-taking apps (incl. Almost all of these are folders, they contain many notes or folders under them. Organizing things is forever a work-in-progress. I organize my notes hierarchically by topic, with the top-level folders being Personal, KB (Knowledge Base) and Work. If important enough, I’ll take time to transcribe things into my note-taking app. However, those don’t live longer than 48 hours, usually much shorter. I do still use physical paper scratchpad to jot down notes, mostly during meetings or for daily to-do lists. I have a separate paperless workflow for that. invoices, paper records, etc) in my digital brain, as I only need to reference that seldomly and adding them would only clutter things. I do not store general administrative paperwork (e.g. Used extensively to track personal projects
#Boostnote vs notion professional#
Given its size and how it’s a crucial part of my personal and professional life, I sometimes refer to this as my digital brain. What started out as some loose notes, has now amounted to over 1500 notes on all sort of topics.
I started building my own personal knowledge base about 5 years ago. For most of us flawed humans, that’s impossible without keeping notes. I’ve learned that the ability to quickly retrieve summarized and contextualized information, is a large part of what people mean by “having experience”. 3 min read How note-taking makes me (much) smarterĮven with the web at your fingertips, it takes time to research and combine information in a way that makes sense to you or that is relevant in your current context.
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