I must give Boostnote a try. On the face of it, I would think an engineering notebook, to be used daily for large amounts of stuff, would be a paradigmatic case for a native app like Quiver rather than electron. But then there's Atom & vscode so maybe not? And I'm a bit uncomfortable with Boostnote's copyright transfer for pull requests (https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote/blob/master/contributin...). But then again, I pay little attention to copyright matters so perhaps just haven't noticed if this is common in open source. And it's clearly nevertheless more open than Quiver.

There seems to be some UI slowdown on my machine too, whereas Quiver doesn't seem to suffer from that at all, and I have like 200+ note files in my Quiver repository!

I have a $700 computer in my pocket and the best way to write a grocery list is on a post-it found in the kitchen drawer.

I think it comes down to the human interface of a touch screen being slow, frustrating, and generally inefficient.

Useful for taking notes wither portrait (in meetings) or landscape (in front of a computer). Also graph paper obviously helps with sketches and dividing up the page on the fly.

I do use notes.app, evernote for complex writing stuff though.