Tl;dr I use obsidian for desktop, IA Writer for mobile, and keep everything in sync with Dropbox. Taking notes is hard During college, while I was freelancing, I developed a habit of taking notes. This has served me well since then, and I have tried to manage my notes in more ways than I can remember. The ones that I can remember trying are: Google Keep, Google Docs, Evernote, Jupyter notebooks, Aha!