Probably the most accurate assessment of the field of note-taking I've ever read. One aspect of this issue I like to point out is this: I graduated from college about four years before the advent of personal computers. I took my research notes (there were no other kinds of notes I cared about back then) on index cards and in paper notebooks. Then I had to type my papers on a manual typewriter, referring to the written notes. This generally worked, but made me hate writing, especially when I decided to re-write a section, which mean a whole new page. After I got my first personal computer and was exposed to the most rudimentary of note-taking apps, I thought to myself how much more I would have enjoyed school if I only had this technology available to me at the time. What I'm getting at is that the quantum leap between analog note-taking and writing, and digital note-taking and writing is a much larger leap than between any two apps, no matter the sophistication level. Keeping that in mind should allow me to be satisfied with any app I use. Why doesn't it? Probably for exactly the reason you state. My systems suck!