I really hate to be positive so early on a Monday morning, but Apple’s Notes app is excellent. It does everything you’d want a notes app to do, and does it simply, intuitively and seamlessly across devices.
Perhaps I can compensate for this sun shininess, first, by pointing out that Apple Notes is one of the few remaining things in the Apple ecosystem about which we can still say “it just works,” and, second, by ending on a proper sour note, with a negative comparison of Notes to Evernote, the reigning Enshittifacation World Champion, which, for ten-plus years has refused to finish dying its slow, gruesome death of morbid scope obesity and despicable subscription extortion. The only good legacy of Evernote is Apple’s theft and refinement of the basic Evernote concept in the form of Notes.
Side note: my wife is trying to trick me into making Design Grouch into a Youtube or Instagram channel.
Of course, she’s already trying to dilute my grouchiness concept by encouraging the rare spasms of approval I sometimes suffer. I had a rare positive design outburst this morning (over Apple Notes actually being good) and she got all excited that I could like something, and took it as proof that I’m capable of a full range of normal human emotions, extending all the way from loathing to resigned acceptance.
She’s urging me to do a few positive posts every now and then. I told her I’d already a positive post before, which is plenty, and that I even have a whole category dedicated to positivity. But I must insist that the positive-to-negative content on this blog must remain proportionate to real-world competence-to-incompetence incidence. This means you can look forward to seeing another positive remark somewhere around 2032 or 2033.