Notebag - A keyboard-focused note-taking app that gets out of your way

Looks cool. But there are a million note-taking apps these days.

This software is very buggy. I bought it last week. It's not a release candidate (RC) level. It's not even at Beta level, it's an Alpha release. Definitely not an RC never mind a proper release level, he admitted this often on his Twitter.. Very unusual and improper to sell this level of prototype. A big warning Bell. The big secret is since a few months ago and beta release of "Roam Research" (search YouTube) there's been a frenzy and many developers have been taking it's unique features, mainly Bi-directional linking. The nearest is called Obsidian (search YouTube for obsidian.md) which unlike Roam has an entry level version, a local (not cloud) version which is free (as well as subscriptions pricing). Roam only has cloud (they just announced local due to obsidian competition) and all subscriptions based. You can sign up for early Access to Obsidian (www.obsidian.md). Roam research was overwhelmed and closed their early access. They're both hugely more advanced than notebag, but they call themselves beta and say they can't honorably take money for a beta. They're much more stable than notebag and have numerous features which notebag will never have as they have expert teams of productivity coders and designers from big previous brands still going strong. Also much more to come, numerous features. Obsidian like Roam has a GRAPH View (dynamic mindmap view) of how your files link together. Which this cheap knock off does not have, notebag lacks most features of Roam & Obsidian too. It's like a buggy notepad compared to a major Word Processor like Roam or Obsidian which it tries to copy. There are others, like org-roam, which has many many features of Roam, not just one or two unlike notebag. Org-roam is not a quickie app ripping off features of a new frenzy app, it compares well with Roam (like Obsidian) and is not a commercial venture and free. It also has official support of Roam and promise of future backing by Roam team. For average users free basic local version of obsidian is easiest to install and they amazingly update versions with major features every few days! They've pledged to keep the local version (much better than their cloud or Roam cloud) free forever. For experienced users and coders, go for the free org-roam as it too has most of the many features of Roam and will remain free and open source. Roam features are being adopted into many other productivity apps, major apps, not quickie profit makers just doing one or two features. These usually are little money making apps that soon become abandonware as their track history of projects show. These facts and news above behind the scenes are things you'd never get from marketing blurbs on commercial websites made from quickie templates, but only if you research on sites like producthunt to see what actually is going on. However there are even more apps that have a few of Roam features AND are free AND open source AND popular which means they're unlikely to become yet another money making abandonware as they're not likely to be dropped, for example some of these "Roam Alternatives" in links below which are free and open source: https://nesslabs.com/roam-resear... https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhos... https://www.reddit.com/r/RoamRes... You have to research to see what actually is going on and only get this sort of (behind the marketing blurb scenes) news and Real information if you research on specialist sites like producthunt.com.

Fantastic note taking alternative and having markdown support allows for much better note formating.

Nice idea especially some of the shortcuts and the complex math formulas integration but way to go Pros + Complex Math Formulas (but cannot be edit as of now which is a bug) + Fuzzy Search + Making Projects using # right away + UI borrowed by NoteJoy Cons - Offline only - Support is super slow close to non existant - No visual help to remember the shortcuts Nice idea with a long way to go :)