Have you ever felt like your notes are more of a cluttered archive than a useful tool? Maybe you’ve scribbled down ideas, bookmarked articles, or highlighted passages in books, only to find them ...

Have you ever felt like your notes are just a chaotic collection of thoughts, scattered across notebooks, apps, or sticky notes, never quite coming together into something useful, like a second brain?

If you’ve been shelling out for a note-taking app, it might be time to let go. These free alternatives aren’t just “good enough”—they’re better. Cleaner, faster, less annoying. And best of all, they ...

Note-taking apps typically aim to make you more efficient and productive. A lot of those apps concentrate on quickly jotting down your thoughts, organizing them better, or a mix of both. Napkin (not ...

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Xiaomi is a Chinese company that sells many e-readers, but they don’t have much experience with digital note-taking devices or e-notes with E INK screens. The company released the Xiaomi Note a couple ...

Laptops are ideal for taking course notes. They’re portable enough to carry with you to every class, they have built-in keyboards and touchpads for fast typing and navigation, you can doodle and ...

When the Amazon Kindle Scribe first launched, it got a mitigated review from us because the software experience wasn’t on par with the promising hardware. After a few updates, it is finally living up ...

Plaud AI has already sold over a million AI devices. Is it time for you to add it to your tech collection? Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European ...

Before the internet became the massive and powerful resource it is today, most people went to the library to get the information they needed. It was a pretty labor-intensive task, though, as you'd ...

Meet Jasper Schmich Kinney, your go-to tech guru and gaming aficionado. Jasper is a video game music composer, having collaborated with industry legends like Yasunori Nishiki (composer of the Octopath ...