39 Note Taking tools, ranked by readers

Personal notes can grow into a journal, knowledge base, or second brain. Good organization matters when you need to find an old idea later.

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  Obsidian helps you build an organized personal knowledge base from your notes.

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  Evernote keeps notes, tasks, saved web content, and personal knowledge together.

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  Notion brings organized notes, content, and databases into a shared workspace.

Shared notes work well when several people need to add ideas or edit the same content. This can also suit teams that already work together on documents.

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  Google Docs lets people write, edit, and share notes together.

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  Notta supports shared notes created from recorded interviews and meetings.

Transcription helps when typing everything yourself would be slow. An AI Meeting Assistant can also create summaries, while Meeting Summarization is useful when you mainly need the key points.

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  Speechmatics turns live or recorded speech in multiple languages into text.

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  MinutesLink captures meetings and turns them into shared notes, summaries, and action items.

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  Krisp combines meeting transcription and summaries with noise removal.