Products · Broad category
Digital note-taking apps
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2011–2022), in 5 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Digital note-taking apps, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Toolbar icons unclear, first button broken, and links between boxes not discoverable2022-06-15
- Phone UI breaks or is unusable on Android2022-06-15
- Cannot add books, printed articles or PDFs to bookmark lists; tools are siloed2020-11-27
- Forces thoughts into rigid organization like hyperlinks, trees, and ordered lists2020-07-19
- Tablet note-taking is clumsy, needs photo imports and tool switching, and notes are hard to find2016-04-09
- No digital tool matches pen and paper for quick sketching and diagrams2011-07-11