I mean, I quit them right now, but it has been a long time brewing, so I am taking note of that right here, on my after-hours blog.
So, listen: I have tried GoodNotes and Notability, and I threw them out eventually because, really, I wasn’t really taking notes, although I bet I looked like I knew what I was doing at the time (that is a whole thing I need to get to talking about at some point, looking the part, rather than being the real deal).
All I did was load PDFs into either app, watch the files sync with a Cloud service, and doncha know! I felt accomplished, write some chicken scratch on the first 15 pages of each file, and then quit.
And now, after months of trying to make OneNote be my note taking app, I have snapped over how messy syncing OneNote Notebook is.
I’ll go into a bit of detail here, you can skip this paragraph, especially because I have no idea where I am going with this: I tried to rename several of these Notebooks, as OneNote calls them, just to see the names being dropped, not used, then older Notebooks showing up in the list of selectable Notebooks, with old content having been moved to new Notebooks, all for the sake of creating some sort of order out of the chaos of the previous, what, nine years now. And I couldn’t, and I tried, and it wouldn’t stick, and Cloud is basically just shit I can pat myself on the back for making some kind of progress in, same with typing over writing, it all sure feels like you are getting somewhere because suddenly there is more of something where there was none before, but, for what I am doing, and how my mind works, there is a simple truth.
I can only take useful notes using pen and paper. Drawing and sketching? Different, doesn’t matter there, but taking notes? I need paper. Same with reading. I need paper, and I also need the font to have serifs, because I need to understand, not just have an ease of reading experience, where the goal is to be done.
Having had the recent Windows reset forced upon me turns out to be actually good for me. Earlier, before I snapped, I have felt a deep morosity over yet again spending hours at the PC trying to make something work which had the human as the after-thought for its use, or what the Millenial designers call human-centered design.
So, OneNote went the same way GoodNotes and Notability went before, and I am back in control of a hand on a piece of paper.
Sure, this is my manifesto, let me just send it into the database so you can read it.

Quelle: Code & Canvas