The best notes app for Mac should take moments to open the app and start writing. What makes a Mac notes app truly great? In our opinion, the best Mac note taking apps: Typically this means a primary window you can use to browse all of your notes, sorted into notebooks and usually arranged by dates.īut that's the bare minimum. For the purposes of this article, though, we only considered apps built with note taking in mind. You can take notes using just about any app, or a piece of paper for that matter. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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