As a post-graduate student, you are going to need a place to keep all of your research ideas. There are loads of note-taking apps out there that help you to organise your research and link ideas together - here are some of our favourites:

1 - Obsidian

Unlike some other apps that claim to use Neuroscience to help you be productive, this one can actually back up the claims it makes (we checked with our educational Neuroscientist).

It supports learning by linking ideas together, including hashtags and creating mind maps. So, if you have a new keyword that you just can't remember, you can link the keyword to the definition. If you want to group ideas in one handy place, you can use hashtags. If you want to take a look at how your ideas are integrating with each other, then it will show you a mind map.

It takes about 20 minutes to learn and doesn't have any online sharing functionality, but we have never looked back. 

2 - Noteability

This app is all about online functionality, so if you work from lots of different places, this might be the app for you. You can take notes, draw animated pictures, use voicenotes and it has AI functionality. What more could you want from a cloud-based note-taking app? 

3 - Evernote

The classic of the bunch - an online cloud-based note-taking app with no frills or surprises. It knows what it does, and it does that very well.

If you've never used it before, it is a storage space for all of your notes, your calendar, personal wikis and to-do lists that can be accessed from anywhere. The free version provides you with all of the functionality that you need, but if you want to upload bigger documents (like who journals) then you will need to pay for it.