What is NotePlan 3?
NotePlan 3 is an evolution of the NotePlan applications and offers a unique tool to host your tasks, calendar and notes. But what does it offer for you?
Well, NotePlan 3 offers a way to take notes as the core element. With those notes, you can add what NotePlan call "markdown tasks" that allow you to create tasks within notes inline. Popular for GTD lovers.
Features for Note-Taking
Looking at note-taking, and some of the other features around that:
- Notes - NotePlan, hence the name, offers a good ability for notes and probably one of the best uses cases for it. You can write markdown notes, add tasks and checklists and associate them to a certain day. You can also build out with some multimedia too.
- Calendar - Connecting Google Calendar, iCal or Exchange is all easy inside of NotePlan, and perfect for those who like to see notes with dates near them. Some people like this in apps like Agenda Notes, but NotePlan goes an inch further with "tasks" in notes.
- Tasks - Help you to allocate tasks when you're making a day plan in NotePlan, meaning you can get a daily note type experience with your calendar and from here tally your tasks for the day, adding due dates and even reminders too.
NotePlan 3 in general has evolved from NotePlan 2, with more bolder and bigger visions for notes. Lots of people are looking at it as an alternative to Agenda Notes, but also as a way to centralise everything in one place, that lives as markdown based items.
Is NotePlan Right For Me?
NotePlan is a unique note-taking app.
Great for doing daily notes, journals, notes, task capture and a good way to see what's coming up in your calendar too. For many, NotePlan 3 presents a neat solution to have everything all in one - very much suited for the Apple-lovers out there as it is only on iOS and macOS but it presents a decent bet for those who love date-based note-taking.
The pricing isn't stunning, but when you host everything in one base, in a stable and reliable app like NotePlan, it isn't half bad as a all-in-one notes tool. More recently NotePlan extended their thinking into time-blocking, soon to be deployed on macOS.
Alternatives to NotePlan could be Evernote or Agenda Notes, but Bear Notes too.
