The best note-taking apps for collecting your thoughts and data

These days, we are all dealing with huge amounts of information, from meeting notes to social media, to photos and videos, to whatever else we've collected - and we are all trying to find some way to store it, organize it, and find it when we need it.

If you want to get really basic, you can use a spreadsheet or create a simple set of word-processing documents. Otherwise, you can try what is somewhat inaccurately described as a note-taking app. These apps, at their simplest, store your notes and other thoughts and, at their more complex, are capable of manipulating any and all content you want to drop into them.

One of the most well-known has been Evernote, which has gone through quite a few changes over the years, both financially and in its feature set. I've been using it for my personal notes for years, and while I feel that it's become way too overblown (and too expensive), I haven't been able to motivate myself to pull my decade of data out of there. At this point, though, I'm not sure I'd recommend it to a new user - especially now that it's limiting the features of its free version even more than it used to.

However, there are a lot of others out there now with a wide ra …

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