

Being able to connect these ideas to action (e.g. Having an ecosystem is important as many use these apps as a "second brain" and hub for all their ideas. Trello, Notion) and the simplicity and speed of capture in unstructured ones (e.g. Note-taking apps are largely unstructured databases and there is tradeoff between complexity/power of structured databases (e.g. ) and therefore I'm in it for the long haul. I see these tools as Personal Productivity Platforms (blog post coming. Just like task apps, many companies will come and go and unless you want all your ideas to go on that roller-coaster, there is value in sticking with a company that you know will be around as you will look back and have a decade of your life in these tools. TL DR - Choose something with staying power that matches your primary use cases for power or simplicity. I had the same struggle several years ago, and like you, I had to focus on my priority use cases.
