Amid all these different choices, one of the apps that I find myself regularly coming back to is Google Keep. It's fast and easy to get around, it works on just about any device, and once you dig a little deeper into its colorful sticky note interface, there are plenty of useful features to take advantage of.
Right from the start, the colorful Post-it note look of Google Keep gives you a neat way of arranging your notes: yellow for to-dos and blue for shopping lists, for example, or whatever suits you. There are 11 different pastel colors to pick from besides the default white, and on top of that, you've got nine background pictures you can use instead, covering themes like celebration, places, recipes, and music.
Google Keep borrows a trick from Gmail with labels: individual notes can have multiple labels, so something can be tagged with 'family' and 'urgent' or 'ideas' and 'vacation.' It's a handy way of bringing order to your notes, even as their numbers grow into the dozens or hundreds.
[
add
]
[
|
|
...
]