Craft: Notes, Documents, AI

I discovered Craft via a YouTuber as I was diving into finding a way to keep track of all my projects, and I have a lot of them. I didn’t want to use a project management software like Monday, Trello or Airtable - I wanted to think about this from a different way that is creative, intuitive and meticulously designed. When I saw it in action I quickly jumped in and instantly knew this was the right program for me. You have to understand how important it is to have a central hub for all your information, projects, tasks, sharing, seamless integration on IOS, presenting mode (that’s new) and with the latest update V3, they have taken it to the absolute next level. I feel like the listened to my feedback as well as others and now also have Collections (essentially a database, but where you can create your own pages within, designed how you like. V3 also brought so many more stylings, and integrated with Chat GPT 4O - which I use all the time for translating. With the new scheduling of tasks, I can centralize everything from Reminders, Calendar, Journaling. And it’s all beautiful, so you spend your time working with something that makes you feel good. Thank you so much guys.

I’ve tried the other notes apps and there are some good ones out there, but Craft seems to be just a bit above the rest. My ignorance got in the way sometimes, but my persistence paid off and I was able to do everything I wanted with Craft. Tables are what sold me on Craft. I need to have documents that capture data from many sources, but keeping records of financial data in a table made it easy for me to send out daily reports with our performance progress. Being able to calculate inside a Craft table was key. Others have tables, but no calculations within. Nesting folders, links forward and backward and on and on. I try to keep my business notes away from my personal notes, but with Craft, I find myself blending in my notes. They are still separate, but in one app now instead of two. Searching for notes is easy and being able to create a template has made life much better by cutting down on the time it takes to do repetitive notes, like a report with a table where the numbers change daily. Fantastic! I actually found Craft thru Setapp, it was a new entry shortly after joining Setapp. What a great find. On my iPhone, on my iPad, on my Mac and online. Find Craft notes everywhere and you have password protection. I know I’ve probably left out tons of features, but these are just a few of the ones I use almost daily and they work great. If you’re satisfied with your note app, don’t try Craft, it may change your mind about your current note app.

As the title of this review states, I have tried many apps (many with paid membership) for the past two years or so. There are so many options to choose from that I stopped looking for apps and just started trying them as I saw an ad or the app store was highlighting one for whatever reason that day. So when I saw the reviews for Craft, I was like, "here we go again." But I will tell you, the designers at Craft figured out that sweet spot of making the product complex at the same time, still easy and intuitive to use. One example that sold me was when I was writing a draft for a blog post; I could insert an image without issue (something you cannot do in many editors) and then share it as a web page without doing anything other than clicking one or two places. I then sent it to a friend in another state, who commented on how it looked terrific. Also, Creating templates made so much sense that it encouraged me to make more and brainstorm other things for which I could use templates. Oh, and the mobile app is fantastic. Bravo Craft. I'll be around for a bit. One example that sold me was when I was writing a draft for a blog post, I was able to inset the image without issue and then I was able to share it, as a webpager to a freiend of mine in another state, and it looked amazing. Oh and one more thing, creating your own templates made so much sense that it encouraged me to make more and brainstorm other things that I coulld use templates for. Oh and the moblie app is fantastic. Bravo Craft. I think I'll be around for a bit.