Laptops are ideal for taking course notes. They’re portable enough to carry with you to every class, they have built-in keyboards and touchpads for fast typing and navigation, you can doodle and ...

We list the best note-taking apps, to make it simple and easy to manage your notes on the go. Note-taking apps have become increasingly popular, not least with the wide availability of mobile devices, ...

Ben Smith is a writer based in Los Angeles, California who has been covering consumer tech for at least five years. He's written thousands of articles for various sites about laptops, tablets, and ...

The flatnotes is a simple, self-hosted notes app made for people who just want to write and keep their notes private. It’s a ...

So, I deleted the heavy applications, threw out the complex systems, and returned to the fundamentals: plain text files, a ...

Almost any writer or content creator can benefit from using a minimal Markdown editor like Typora. It’s a simple app that you can configure in many different ways to suit the formatting you need for ...

Every Windows user eventually encounters Notepad. It's the built-in plain-text editor that has shipped with the operating system since time immemorial (meaning since Windows 1.0, almost 30 years ago).

Number seven in our series is free, streamlined, an absolute joy to use — and here’s the biggie — syncs seamlessly with one of several desktop companions (which are also free); it’s also the first ...