This is the Notes App Exit Strategy You've Been Looking For
How 'Posh Mum' inspires me to simplify and backup almost everything

I don’t know if Catherine Tate uses notes apps, but I do know that if her Posh Mum character did, she’d be completely reliant on features she has no idea how to control or replicate elsewhere.
Hilarious! I also like the one where the trauma of running out of extra virgin olive oil is almost more than she can bear, and the one where the Nanny from the North comes to visit. Golly gosh, it’s lucky we’re not like Posh Mum and her brilliantly toffy kids, isn’t it!
…Or are we?
Time to refocus on notes apps, roll back to the beginning, and have a look-see.
3 App Categories
In my mind, there are three broad categories of interactive apps. The information you place into them falls into similar categories.
Vital
Useful
Play
Vital
Vital apps are your bread and butter. They’re the programs you have to use for work, and where you store information that would cause personal or professional devastation should the app (and therefore your data) to disappear.
These are mine:
Affinity Designer
Affinity Publisher
1 Password
Useful
Useful apps are just that. They’re the tools you use to manipulate and extrapolate data; they’re the mixer, not the cake.
These are mine:
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