Can We Knock It off with All of These New Note-Taking Apps?

I get it. Trust me.

Fancy productivity apps and the articles listing them out are a siren’s call I can rarely ignore.

To us productivity nerds, these articles are the equivalent of the scene in Boondock Saints where they get to choose all of their weapons. [My apologies if you aren’t a 30-something bro who has seen that movie and was impacted enough by that scene to reference it.]

Lately, here on Medium, there’s been a rise in articles about note-taking apps.

You know what I’m talking about.

This article was likely sandwiched between them.

Articles with titles like…

“The 5 Note-Taking Apps I Use Daily,”

“Evernote Alternatives That Changed my Note Taking Permanently”

“10 Note-Taking Apps We Love,”

These articles are what I call productivity porn.

These articles are what I call productivity porn.

Like Porn, these are for entertainment only.

99% of the time, there is no value in these sorts of posts. They do little more than distract us from real work.