# Note-taking App Overwhelm

I think the feature overwhelm in note-taking apps is completely natural!

Notion is actually a bit easier to get started with than AnyType, because it's been around for so much longer, but I have huge privacy and security issues with Notion that have completely turned me off of using it. AnyType, meanwhile, is built around privacy and security, so I like it on principle, but I don't know if I'd recommend it to non-power users yet. In the next year or two? Maybe.

What I'd really do is ask: what do you want to get out of a note program, and what have you already tried? What matters to you regarding features, security, privacy? Do you want to write in plain text, Markdown, or rich text? Do you like “block style” writing? Maybe LogSec is the program for you! Maybe Obsidian.

Until you've gotten down a full list of your needs, and explanations for them, no single app will be the right option to sink all that time into.

In the meanwhile, my suggestion is: just take notes anywhere! Attach metadata for when you wrote them, and maybe what rough subject they are about (notes handwritten in a page margin count!). Meticulously track sources, those are even more important than raw notes. Then, when you do want to go to a more complex piece of.software, you've got a good ordered and simple system you can draw from.

And actually, if I were to reccomend starting anywhere... it would have to be Zotero. Learn the Ins and outs of a good citation manager and everything else will follow.