Introduction
The UpNote app was built by a team of two, and it feels polished just like the best note-taking apps created by large companies, such as the Editors’ Choice winner OneNote. The UpNote app is available on apps for all major platforms, and you can purchase the full version for a one-time fee instead of a monthly subscription, although a low-cost subscription is also offered. There are some drawbacks, primarily related to the file size you can upload and some missing features, but UpNote is a useful note-taking app overall. It is not very different from the Editors’ Choice winner Joplin, although Joplin has a better free version that allows you to sync your notes as long as you have your own storage space.
How much does UpNote cost?
UpNote offers a free version, but it is quite limited. Instead of having an overall storage limit, you can only create 50 notes, and there is no support for attachments or import/export. There are more generous free apps, particularly OneNote, Joplin, and Obsidian.
A subscription to UpNote Premium costs just 99 cents a month. Or you can purchase a lifetime license for $29.99. Subscribers with a lifetime license get access to all current features forever – the very small company cannot guarantee that Premium Lifetime members will get all new features in the future, noting the nature of unknown costs.
Please note that the only way to pay for the subscription is on an Apple or Android device through the App Store or Google Play. There is no payment method on Windows and Linux devices, although UpNote applications exist for those platforms. The UpNote team suggests paying through the app store and then syncing the apps on Windows and Linux devices to access paid features across your devices. Subscribers with a Premium membership theoretically get unlimited storage, but each note can be up to 20 megabytes in size.
UpNote is more expensive than other paid note-taking app versions. For example, Evernote subscriptions start at $14.99 monthly. Compare that to Microsoft 365 Personal’s plan at $69.99 annually, which gives you 1 terabyte of storage with unlimited syncing for OneNote (and everything else you want to store in OneDrive) along with email hosting and other Microsoft Office apps. Apple Notes sync using iCloud storage, which starts at $11.88 annually for 50 GB of storage or $35.88 annually for 200 GB of storage.
The biggest hurdle in these comparisons is UpNote’s file size limitations. If you want to store files larger than 20 megabytes in your note-taking app, you should look for another app. If not, UpNote is a very good deal.
Getting Started with UpNote
UpNote has desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, in addition to mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android. There is no web version of UpNote.
After downloading UpNote, you can start using it immediately; there is no need to create an account until you want to start syncing. I like that you can get a feel for the app quickly without having to provide an email address.
The application’s interface will be very familiar if you have used Joplin, Apple Notes, or earlier versions of Evernote. The larger pane on the right displays the currently open note. The far left pane lets you choose a notebook or tag for browsing, while the right pane gives you a list of notes.
Support
Markdown in UpNote
Creating a new note is very simple, as you can click on “New Note.” The first line you write becomes the note’s title, and after that, you can write whatever you want. Formatting is handled using rich text. Users who love Markdown are not left out, as when you apply Markdown syntax, your text automatically converts to rich text with proper formatting. It’s a good balance, even if some formatting elements, such as links and images, do not translate from Markdown. Users who use Markdown are automatically covered, but others do not even need to know that the feature exists.
Organizing Notebooks and Tagging in UpNote
You can create as many notebooks as you want and even nest notebooks within other notebooks if that helps you organize your files. You can choose a cover image for each notebook from a standard or custom image, making it easy to distinguish notebooks quickly. Notion does this too. You can store notes in multiple notebooks, which I haven’t seen in other note-taking apps. This means your notebooks work more like tags, which is odd because UpNote also has tags. You can add a tag to any note by including a #hashtag in its text, just like in OneNote. This provides you with another way to organize your notes.
You can also add tasks to any note by clicking on the dropdown button, which creates a clickable checkbox next to the current line. It also adds the note to the tasks section in the sidebar, and it remains in that group until you check off the item. You can use UpNote as a task list app to track items you intend to follow up on.
Embedded Files in UpNote
Images dragged into UpNote appear directly in your note. You can preview PDF files and even fill out forms without leaving the app. Any other type of attachment shows up as a clickable link. It’s nice to be able to preview more types of files in the same way you can in Evernote, but if I had to choose one type, it would be PDF.
UpNote supports embedding videos from YouTube and Vimeo, and from what I can see, any other service that provides embedding. I managed to get it to work with Spotify, which isn’t listed as an option in the documentation. Embedding files is useful if you’re trying to save a collection of resources or media to check out later.
Importing and Exporting with UpNote
UpNote can import your existing notes from Evernote and Simplenote. There’s also support for importing a whole folder filled with Markdown notes, meaning you can easily retrieve notes from Obsidian, Joplin, or any other app that stores notes as Markdown files. Additional supported formats include HTML, RTF, Word, and TXT.
As for exporting, you can get all your notes as text files, HTML, PDF, and Markdown. All are relatively universal formats, so you can easily retrieve your notes from UpNote and transfer them to other apps.
Keyboard Shortcuts in UpNote
You can double-click any note to open it in a new window without the sidebar. This is a great way to keep selected notes open all the time or to work on multiple notes simultaneously. UpNote also provides a focus mode, which hides everything except the text of the note you’re working on – useful if you’re trying to concentrate on writing.
UpNote has extensive keyboard shortcuts, but you don’t need to memorize them thanks to the backslash menu. Type a backslash, and the app shows a list displaying all the formatting shortcuts in UpNote, which you can navigate using the arrow keys.
Included
In UpNote
UpNote offers a well-integrated web clipper, which is a browser extension used to capture content from any web page and turn it into a note. The UpNote extension captures the text of the article you are reading without asking you for anything, which is a bit puzzling. It works well once you get used to it. I hope UpNote’s clipper allows you to customize the clipping format that Evernote and OneNote’s clippers provide.
What is missing in UpNote?
Many people reading this review may be looking for an alternative to Evernote. UpNote doesn’t have all the features that Evernote offers, but there are no other apps that have nearly all the features, except for OneNote. If you do not use all the advanced features in Evernote, UpNote might be all you need.
One of the missing pieces already mentioned for UpNote is the lack of a web app. Another is the ability to search attachments. OneNote, Evernote, and Bear can all search attachments using optical character recognition (OCR), which means they can scan image files and PDFs for text and make that text searchable.
There are some other missing features as well. UpNote does not provide any drawing functionality, which means iPad users with a stylus will need to look to another app. OneNote, Notability, and Notes Plus X are all excellent options. Also, you do not get a dedicated email address to forward emails to your note-taking app as you do with OneNote and Evernote.
Finally, UpNote lacks collaboration support beyond note sharing. You can create a link to share any note from UpNote, but the link leads to a read-only web page. If you want to collaborate on editing notes with others, OneNote and Evernote are your best options.
Your Privacy with UpNote
The UpNote team is based in Vietnam, and they say that all data is stored on a Firebase server in the United States. Google provides the Firebase service, which encrypts data in transit using HTTPS and encrypts data at rest.
If you do not create an account and thus do not have syncing enabled, there is no need to worry as all information related to your notes is stored locally on your device.
Much to Like for the Price
UpNote may not be the most feature-rich note-taking app on the market, but it is highly usable for the price. If you want to take notes without emptying your pocket or losing many features, it is an excellent app worth considering. For advanced users, it’s better to stick to the Editors’ Choice winners OneNote and Joplin. OneNote can host and sync much larger files than UpNote, which limits files to 20 MB. Joplin, which is open source, offers multiple options for free users. These are the best note-taking apps you can find, but UpNote is not far behind.
UpNote Specifications
Android App
Free Storage: 50 notes
iOS App
Mac App
Maximum File Size: 20 MB
Storage included in price: Unlimited
Web Clipper
Windows App
All Specifications
Table of Contents
How much does UpNote cost?
Getting started with UpNote
Markdown Support in UpNote
Notebook Organization and Tagging in UpNote
Embedded Files in UpNote
Importing and Exporting with UpNote
Keyboard Shortcuts in UpNote
Clipping in UpNote
What is missing in UpNote?
Your Privacy with UpNote
Much to Like for the Price
Source: https://me.pcmag.com/en/productivity/21202/upnote
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