For 11 years, all my notes were in Evernote.

In numbers: 8,320 notes as of today. That is after last year's "purge" when I deleted ±4,000 more.

In brief: I was a committed user.

But as I doubled down on online writing, I found out that there's another app that suits my needs better.

You might have guessed, it's:

Notion

Here's why:

• Reason 1️⃣: You can organize your notes in a kanban. That's great when you want to capture a number of writing ideas and display them based on how much you've developed them, such as:
  Idea → Outline → Draft → Published
  

• Reason 2️⃣: Organizing your notes into hierarchies is super-intuitive. It takes a simple drag & drop to make Page 2 a child page of Page 1. The best thing about it? A link to Page 2 will automatically appear on Page 1.
  

• Reason 3️⃣: It's easy to move content around the page. Need to swap the order of paragraphs? Move an image to the right spot? Create an extra column? Easy.
  

• Reason 4️⃣: Assigning an icon to a page makes it easy to find in the "Pages" panel. This looks like the smallest thing - but the smallest thing repeated a hundred times in a day becomes a big thing.
  

• Reason 5️⃣: Notion is THE tool used by other creators of digital content. When I bought the 2 Hour Writer course from Dan Koe, his "Writer's Hub" was in Notion.
  

Considered individually, none of these reasons would push me to switch.

But added together: They add up to a significantly better writing experience

Better experience writing → more writing.

And more writing, that's what I want.