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# No One Note-Taker for Me
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/no-one-note-taker-for-me/
- Published: 2021-10-23T17:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-23T17:00:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Mike Rockwell on Initial Charge:](https://initialcharge.net/2021/10/ginter-note-apps/?ref=birchtree.me)

> There isn’t any one app that does everything I want so I’ve ended up with a handful of apps that all loosely serve the purpose of “note taking”. I can understand why someone would want to find the One App to Rule Them All, but I kind of like having a variety of apps instead.

I [linked](https://birchtree.me/blog/your-next-task-manager-might-not-be-a-task-manager/) to [this Francesco D'Alessio article](https://medium.com/keep-productive/your-next-productivity-tool-is-8cf9532bb80d?ref=birchtree.me) a few weeks ago as well:

> I believe your next to-do list application, won’t be a to-do list app. The next major productivity application will be a planner application.

I think both of them have valid viewpoints, and I'm not sure which direction will win out. For what it's worth, this is my setup right now:

- **Things:** I use this for all my task management. It works great for my needs, and is more enjoyable to use than any of the integrated solutions I see out there today.
- **Notion:** My YouTube channel runs 100% through Notion. I've got a Kanban board with all my ideas for videos, as well as a complete, organized archive of every video I've ever made.
- **Fantastical:** All calendaring happens here, it's just the best.
- **Obsidian:** This used to be what YouTube happened in, but Notion eventually won out with it's incredibly flexible UI. Now I use Obsidian for notes on my work computer, but that's about it. If I took notes like many other people seem to, I'd use it in my personal life, but I just am not a note-taker.

Would I be interested in a single app that did all this for me? Sure! Am I confident that one app is going to be the best (or at least close enough to the best) at each of these? Not really. [Agenda](https://agenda.com/?ref=birchtree.me) seems like the closest we have right now, and things like [Sunsama](https://sunsama.com/?ref=birchtree.me) are coming up to make a play as well, but none of them have come close to winning me over. Maybe that'll change in the future.