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GROUP TEST THE BEST NOTE–TAKING APPS FOR MAC

ON TEST…

Apple Notes

Agenda

Bear

Evernote

Notability

Simple Note

WHY BOTHER LOOKING for another note–taking app when there’s a perfectly good one built into macOS? For the same reason you might use a different email client or web browser. While Apple Notes has become a very good note–taking app, it’s not perfect. Take a look at the others here and you’ll see that Bear isn’t just beautiful, but has so many of the features you’d find in a writing tool, you can use it as one. Agenda organizes notes by date and allows you to create and share projects, while Evernote’s web clipping tool is a class apart from the one in Notes.

Notability takes a different approach in that it focuses on creating notes using multiple media. Sure, you can type notes, but you can also record audio and sync it with your notes, annotate a PDF and deliver a presentation.

If all of those features are

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