ldtephens on why Apple Notes won’t be his daily note-taknig app:
Many of the notes that I take throughout the day are notes that I will want to do something with later. A note may become a task in Things, a reminder, or event in Fantastical, a new draft for this blog in Ulysses, or a journal entry in Day One. Missing from Notes is the lack of export options or actions to get notes out of Notes. This is a dealbreaker for making Notes my everyday note’s app. That’s why I use Drafts. Ya know, the old saying “text starts here”. Any text starts in Drafts, including stuff that may eventually end up in Notes.
I agree whole-heartedly. I like Notes’ ubiquity and Apple Pencil support, but I am never inspired to use it compared to Drafts, OmniOutliner, or BBEdit. Quick note is tempting, and I’ll surely check it out, but the indie tools always call to me.