OK but I forgot to mention UPDF, which I use every single day of my life! It can summarize hundreds of pages on PDFs for you, annotate, you can ask it questions, summaries etc. It's like Adobe reader on steroids in the best way. Get more done in less time with UPDF: Get pro with a limited offer: bit.ly/3z2lmao

Notion was overkill for me. I would spend more time working “on” notion than getting work done that I had logged or listed “in” notion. And I really thought it more difficult to find things as far as notes and information. Glad it’s not just me

Hi Lindieeee 💌 I would love to see more of your paper planners / bujos / language journal... I love planning stuff and I would love to get inspired by your journals!

Evernote - you either get acquired a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

Do I have an organization system that I’ve spent years developing that works for me? Yes. Did I watch this video anyway just because I enjoy the quality Lindie Botes content? Also yes.

Like you I sailed around the horn of productivity tools and landed back on planet Apple Notes & Google Docs. Great video Lindie!

I just went through 3 days of back and forth with Notion until I was completely overwhelmed. Thank you for the other productivity suggestions.

Would love to see your analog bullet journal!!

Like you, I also used to love Evernote a lot back in the day, but eventually got more and more frustrated with the bloating. There were also inconsistencies in the features between different app versions, like between the Mac app and the Android app. I did play around with Apple Notes a bit, however, never really got into it. Since I had a Mac computer and an Android phone, using an app that was inextricably tied to a particular ecosystem was just not an option. Plus, I was becoming more wary and concerned about gilded cage ecosystems that were packed with features and useful functions, but also made it really hard to leave. And/or used my data to sell to data-brokers. So, I minimised my usage of Apple's native apps, and also limited my usage of Google services and apps. Instead, I looked towards apps and services that were as platform-independent as possible. (on a sidenote, I even ended up switching to Linux from Mac for this reason) Like you, I eventually discovered Notion, and moved to it for a couple of years. I loved it for it's customisability and ease of use. But I eventually started to find faults with it. For me, however, it wasn't so much the overwhelm of all the customization options and spending too much time just organizing and reorganizing that led me to be dissatisfied with Notion. Rather, it was the bother of not having notes reliably available on mobile devices without internet connection. Or the sometimes slow loading times. I became a lot more concerned about having access to my notes at any time without much fuss. So any note-taking app that was reliant entirely on storing data in the cloud instead of locally became unappealing to me. Currently, I have switched to Obsidian, which stores my notes locally in Markdown format. Basically a plain text-file with Markdown formatting for the text contained within it. Not only is this storing my notes locally, but markdown-files can be easily read by and imported into any other app. So, if one day I wanted to switch from Obsidian to something else, I could easily do so. While Obsidian also has tons of plugins to add features and functionality, you don't strictly *need* them. The base app is already very useful and may be more in line with the simple way of note-taking you prefer. And that's where I am now.

Love productivity related content, so please make more videos! I enjoyed your enthusiasm in this video too, wishing you all the best🥰

I would love to see your paper planners! I'm back to a a physical planner this year for the same reason as you - Notion was becoming too much and I'd spend too much time tweaking with things that didn't need any more improvement.

Play a game and count how many times I push up my slipping glasses in this video 😭😭

Yes please, I'd love to see how you Bullet journal or use paper planners.

You've always been my inspiration and the truthiest polyglot on KZfaq. Hope we will see your comeback ✌🏻

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Yes would love to see notebooks set up!

Hi Lindie! Great video. Greats tips about apps for organization and productivity. Lately, I’m more into analogic stuff, so I’m writing down my thing, only using apps when I have to create a reminder or an alarm. So I’m doing journaling in a simple way. However I want to improve things I could do. So if you could share how you do this it’ll be great. Thanks a lot for all your content, language learning and so on. Thanks.

I suppose I needed this reminder to try Apple Notes again… It’s amazing how much better it’s been made over the last few years.

Have you ever looked into obsidian? Its pretty lightweight and you can make it as fancy as you want with add-ons. I use mine as simple as possible. I mostly use tags and a few folders to keep things organized.

quite possibly the world's most organized person... 👀✨

Great video, thank you! I'd love to know how you plan using paper journals / bullet journals - I love a good 'old pen and paper 😂

Hey! I’m glad your still around, I thought u deleted your Channel I just spent a good while searching for u. Glad u didn’t drop off the face of the earth! Hope ur doing good and feeling hopeful for the future :)))

Hi Lindie!! I'd love to understand how you use both digital and analog ways of organizing your life! I notice when I try to use a bullet journal and a calendar/kanban board, I start to get overwhelmed with the amount of places I'm logging things, and forget about my kanban or my bullet journal, or can't decide where to put what. Curious how you approach both methods and how it works for you!

As for now I only use Notion for task management and info-banking, Samsung Notes (same benefits as Apple Notes you mentioned) for quick notes and handwritten notes, and spreadsheets only if I need some more complex data management (like managing my uni progress). Works great and is helping me a lot, especially since I got a tablet with a pen recently - mobile version of Notion works basically like on desktop (on phone it's indeed slow) and digital handwritten notes (especially for uni and langs) are a blessing 😊

Superlist seems great! I love being able to categorize a list within a list. Evernote became annoying to me because I can't use it offline anymore. Notion was overwhelming for me--not a bad app but... Yeah. 😅 Absolutely want to see tips on bullet journaling. I want a way to track my voice diaries, lang goals, etc. But I'm not quite sure I'm doing it correctly. 😢

Hi Lindie, I resonate and agree with many of the apps and choices here, great video! What web-builder did you use for your website? The blog is so seamless and functional I may want to use the same builder to set up my own.

Very useful video! 💯 Would love to know more about your paper planners + also how you decide when to use a digital planner vs. using a paper planner or notebook. And nice screensaver, by the way!

3:37 The notes :D

Thanks for the shoutout! ❤

I love(d) Evernote, but then they ramped the price until it was out of reach for people who use it for simple note storage. Then they made the mobile apps slow and cumbersome and ramped the price even higher. I know I'm not their ideal customer, I would've paid a few bucks a month simply to NOT have to switch.

i also enjoyed having a simple device like lg g4 back in the day, with 2tb of storage on it. basically any files on my computer could be copied onto it. it also acted as a back up for my pc, and my pc a back up for it. but i miss THAT. just simplicity of having alot of storage on my device. i dont like all the online programs. unless it's speechify or google docs. only reason i like google docs is because i dont like microsoft word and i need SOME program to type documents on. i just felt alot more in control when i am solely managing my files, instead of using online platforms for it.

I wish i saw this video a lot earlier. New to your channel and subscribed. I am already in the apple ecosystem but wasted too much time looking for the flashy shiny app . Wasted lots of money in subscriptions and it was too overwhelming to learn lots of things, facing sync issues in different apple devices etc . Your video is a eye opener to me. The best simple note taking "apple notes" is already available free, i wonder why i ignored it and looking for paid flashy apps. Starting to use apple notes from today . Lessons learnt by wasting lot of my time with other apps.

I also felt like Notion was amazing but just TOO MUCH. I don't have any Apple products so I can't use Apple Notes but I did a quick search and saw that Google Keep may be comparable. I'll check out the other ones you mentioned too. Personally I would love to see how you use bullet journaling and AI for productivity as well!

Would love to see your bullet journals ❤❤

This is helpful, I am still searching for a replacement to Evernote, but after saying it was too expensive, how you settled on Apple which requries more expensive hardware, broken standards, and a closed ecosistema is beyond me 😂

I use Tick Tick but I don't see where/how the Eisenhower Matrix is in there?

Great video thanks Lindie

Ouch, totally agree with you on notion. May be is not just for us.

You can copy and paste from your Mac To IPhone

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Had similar issues, ended up investing way to much time organizing it than utilizing it.

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Evernote was amazing for a long time. Was my first note taking app as well. Yeah, it got worse and worse over time.

do you still use superlist or did you switch back to ticktick (or some other todo app)

Can you compare distros or programming languages?

Hello ❤ I would like to know how you use your paper notebooks. 🙃🙃🤩🤩

Yeeees we want to see also the paper productivity stuff ❤

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I just use paper planner 😊

You're really pretty!

I think y'all waste too much time caring about how pretty things look. Even when I see people using pen and paper they're wasting time on "cute" title and stuff

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Try Obsidian and you will never look back :)

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You're super cute.

Evernote is pricey, yet could afford all of the overpriced Apple devices.

Ticktick looks like a golden nugget I've never heard of O_O! Thanks!