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Add to SafariWhen comparing Federated Wiki vs Apple Notes, the Slant community recommends Apple Notes for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform note-taking app?” Apple Notes is ranked 18th while Federated Wiki is ranked 60th. The most important reason people chose Apple Notes is:
It syncs with iCloud, and surprisingly, also with Gmail and possibly other services too.
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Pros
Pro Stories
Arrange your personal view of a wikis content by opening local and remote pages next to each other. Shift-clicking a link will open it next to already open ones. The story will then be visible in the URL.
Pro Free and Open Source Software
Pro Versioning
Your page is the Journal of the page.
Pro Drag and drop refactoring
Recompose your contents all the time.
Pro Federation
Write locally, fork to your public site. Fork from others.
Pro Sync with other Apple devices via iCloud, other cloud/email services
It syncs with iCloud, and surprisingly, also with Gmail and possibly other services too.
Pro Built-in
It's a default system app, making it easy to find and use since it is already installed.
Pro Rich-text editing
Allows for simple text formatting and making TODO lists with checkboxes.
Pro Attachments
You can add files to notes and then filter notes by attachment types.
Pro Supports sharing
Pro It's fast, and syncing is very dependable
The app launches quickly on both Mac and iOS, it also syncs quickly (in seconds) and very dependably across different Apple devices.
Pro It remains simple to use with a gentle learning curve
Despite the significant new updates in iOS 9 and iOS 10, you can start using Notes immediately, then try/master new features with ease — definitely a gentle learning curve.
Cons
Con No drag'n'drop file upload
Con Cannot export to a format that can be imported again
This makes it obscure and cumbersome to back up your notes as files that could be managed by your backup system. You can export to PDF, but not in bulk; and this isn't the native format that you can easily recover with.
Apple compounds the problem by using some undocumented format for notes. You can, however, back them all up by backing up the files found in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes
