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AI Era Arrives, Which Note-Taking Apps Am I Still Using?

Let’s talk about the “data silos” of note-taking apps, and how I leverage AI to overcome the obstacles they create.

12 min readMar 22, 2025

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Question

A few days ago, I received a message in my knowledge planet from a fellow member, ZerO-Santa. He said he joined the planet because he had read many of my articles on note-taking and efficiency tools. Although he’s interested in the AI I’ve been talking about lately, ZerO-Santa is still curious about which note-taking tools I’m currently using.

The translation goes as:

Hi Professor Wang, I initially got into note-taking because of your recommendations and the apps you featured. However, I’ve noticed that lately you’ve been focusing heavily on AI (which I’m also very interested in!). I was hoping you could share what your current primary note-taking setup looks like.

I thought this was a great question and decided to write an article to explain it in detail. But when I went to the message area and looked, I saw a comment from someone saying: “As a former Roam Research user, how…

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Shuyi Wang
Shuyi Wang

Written by Shuyi Wang

PhD in Information Science. Associate Professor at Tianjin Normal University. Former Adjunct Faculty at UNT. First Prize Winner of HackNTX 2018.

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