Life & fun · February 14, 2017
Collate: Cross platform note taking app based on plain text data format
Welcome to the Collate Blog! As our first blog post, let’s kick things off with the...
Collate: Cross platform note taking app based on plain text data format launched on February 14, 2017 with 85 votes, #500 of 3,156 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
In plain words
Collate is a cross-platform note-taking application that stores data in plain text format. It is designed for users who want a straightforward alternative to feature-heavy note-taking apps like Evernote and OneNote. The app emphasizes simplicity and compatibility across multiple platforms, making notes portable and accessible without lock-in to proprietary formats.
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From the sources
As our first blog post, let’s kick things off with the story of why I created Collate in the first place and the Ideas that were the main driving force behind the app. There are a lot of note taking applications out there. The big ones being Evernote, Microsoft One Note, Google Keep, Simple Note, and Apple Notes. Every one of these have an amazing feature set, they are highly polished and are available on pretty much every platform available. So why recreate the wheel? So on and so forth. Before biting the bullet and creating Collate, I spent hours trying to find the right Note taking application and failing each time. These are the basic guiding principles of Collate. I built something…from collatenotes.com
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