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we asked 6
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people what notes app they use you need
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to have an app that works for your
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personality and your practices otherwise
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you just won't use it but the reality
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for most people is there's another even
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more pressing question what note-taking
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app is everyone else using
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first let's look at our oldest data from
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august 2020 we had only 10 options for
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this survey first place out of those 10
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we have evernote which took 38 of all
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the votes second place was notion
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representing 23 of the students surveyed
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third place was rome research coming up
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with eleven percent another nine percent
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of students said that they hadn't picked
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a note-taking app yet next we had one
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note at seven percent google docs with
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four percent and another four percent of
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students claiming other which makes
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sense as we only had ten choices for
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this survey finally three percent
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reported apple notes two percent emacs
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and one percent bear the clear takeaway
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here is that together notion and
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evernote make up a full sixty percent of
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the note-taking tools on their own our
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second survey was much more
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comprehensive this was a massive cohort
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and we surveyed a full 2 800 plus
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students about their note-taking app of
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choice this survey and the next both
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include returning students to building a
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second brain so it reflects people who
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have been deeply studying notetaking for
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a while as well as complete newbies in
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first place evernote had 30 percent of
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all students notion came in second place
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with 19
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third was rome increasing to 18 of
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students surveyed up quite a bit from
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the previous sample fourth was newcomer
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obsidian with seven percent then other
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with six percent of students surveyed
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five percent for apple notes four
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percent for one note four percent for
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none two percent for google docs and
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then one percent each for devon think
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bear microsoft word emacs and dropbox
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paper by early 2021 we can see a very
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clear big three evernote sits at number
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one with notion in rome vying for second
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place that's 70 total combined across
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those three apps let's dig into the big
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three for a second first is evernote
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it's the og note-taking app and at one
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point had 220
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million reported users that is
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absolutely insane evernote is perfect
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for the librarian note-taking style i
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talked about all of these archetypes in
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my last video part one of the series
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second let's talk about notion notion
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has been around since 2016 and is great
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for teams and for personal dashboards
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third rome research was the new kid on
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the block when the survey was conducted
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and it was the most prominent example of
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the new graph based or networked notes
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paradigm so it makes sense that it has
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such a strong showing here let's move on
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to our third survey this was from
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building a second brain's 13th cohort we
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surveyed over 1300 new and returning
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students in first place yet again
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evernote with 31 of all students in
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second place was notion with 20 of
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students holding strong rome on the
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other hand still held on to third place
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but dropped slightly to 15 percent of
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students while obsidian scooted up the
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charts a bit to 10 of students up from
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its previous seven percent these four
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combined account for over 75 percent of
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the total note-taking population for our
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13th cohort next we have students who
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claimed other apple notes and onenote at
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about five percent of the total for each
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of those options finally holding between
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point one percent and three percent we
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have google docs bear devon think word
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google keep emacs and dropbox paper so
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this is very interesting because while
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the big three still exists and they're
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holding on to their spots notion in
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evernote increased slightly while rome
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fell a good percentage and obsidian rose
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a good amount in fact rome fell the
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exact percentage that obsidian rose one
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interpretation of this data is that the
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big three are actually evernote with 31
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notion with 20
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and networked notes of rome plus
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obsidian representing a combined 25
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with three note-taking styles
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representing roughly even portions of
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the population okay let's take a look at
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our most recent data i recently taught a
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three-hour workshop for anyone who
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pre-ordered my upcoming book while this
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is our smallest group size it's also the
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group that's most likely to be new to
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digital notetaking here's what the
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results look like for that poll first
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place in a major upset we have notion
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with 28
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of those polled in second place we have
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evernote at 22
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then in third place we have obsidian
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with 16 percent of total respondents
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next we have those who respond to none
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at seven percent one note at six percent
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and rome at five percent our remaining
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votes were for apple notes at three
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percent craft a two percent and log sec
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at one percent first of all this is the
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first time i've seen a majority of
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second brain participants claiming
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notion as their second brain app that's
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a fascinating development and it
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probably reflects the momentum around
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notion as a company second this is our
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second data point showing obsidian's
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rise and stunningly rome isn't anywhere
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close to the top three in this small
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sample at only five percent of those
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surveyed this suggests that obsidian and
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rome might not necessarily share the
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same user base and that obsidian
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represents a much larger segment of
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newer faces to note-taking apps
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additionally two newcomers to the
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network to note space craft and logsec
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make up a meaningful showing here for
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the first time if you're looking to just
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maximize the practical utility of your
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notes evernote is the dominant app by
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user count still if you are an architect
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and love to structure your information
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notion is a great pick with a lot of
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passionate users third if you're more of
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a gardener and you're interested in
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self-discovery and learning rome and
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obsidian are the two clear incumbents in
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the space with obsidian appearing to
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currently be on pace to grow the faster
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of the two but if you're feeling like
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playing with some of the new entrants to
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the space check out kraft and logsec
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which are the up and comers for the
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gardener archetype finally if all of
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these sound too complicated onenote and
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apple notes have strong loyal
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contingents they aren't the headliners
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but you know what they get the job done
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for the student archetype in the next
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video of this series i'll be taking the
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notes apps that we discussed in this
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video and doing a quick dive into the
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specific features and characteristics
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that set each one apart thanks for
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watching and i'll see you in the next
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