Reading up on note-taking

Craft is an Apple-exclusive note-taking and productivity app offering docs, tasks, calendars, and whiteboards with a polished, block-based editor.

Files.md provides a fully open-source, hand-crafted note-taking alternative to Obsidian with a simple codebase designed for AI-era customization.

GalaxyBrain is an offline, file-based information operating system that combines document writing with spreadsheet calculations for AI-powered personal knowledge management.

A user validates behind the idea that the bottleneck in personal knowledge management is execution, not capture, by surveying HN on where their second brains break down.

Notion is an all-in-one workspace that combines note-taking, writing, search, and AI features for team collaboration.

A writer details their decade-long system of a single .txt file for all tasks, notes, and logs, arguing it reduces friction and cognitive overhead.