Folio vs ClipNest

Folio is a personal workspace for the things you want to remember, make, and get done. CAPTURE YOUR THOUGHTS Write notes, organize them into notebooks, pin favorites, and build checklists. KEEP DOCUMENTS CLOSE Scan documents into editable text while keeping the original attached. Read PDFs, highlight passages, and keep linked notes alongside the source. MAKE ROOM TO DRAW Sketch on a canvas, choose colors and drawing tools, and export your work. PLAN YOUR EVERYDAY Organize tasks, keep shopping lists with totals, and collect useful information in your workspace. YOUR PERSONAL WORKSPACE Folio stores your content locally and requires no account. Export and share a copy when you choose. Optional calendar, map, and reminder features use Apple system services.

ClipNest is a fast, AI-powered Markdown vault for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Capture useful material from your clipboard, organize it into notebooks, and keep working with the same plain Markdown files in Obsidian, Files, Finder, or another editor. Quick Paste turns an article, URL, quote, thread, or snippet into a structured note. Optional AI assistance can suggest a title, summary, Markdown, tags, and a notebook, with an Inbox fallback when classification is uncertain. Use Photo to Note to turn a photo into an organized note with on-device Vision OCR for Chinese and English. Recognition works without a network connection. On Mac, ClipNest provides a VS Code-style workspace with an explorer, editor, live Edit · Split · Preview modes, slash commands, interactive checklists, image embeds, tables, and embedded terminals. Highlights: • Plain .md files with no proprietary lock-in • Obsidian-compatible wikilinks and image embeds • Quick Paste for focused capture • Optional AI notebook classification • On-device Chinese and English OCR • File and folder management • Live Markdown preview with tables, lists, code, and quotes • English and Simplified Chinese localization • One SwiftUI codebase for iPhone, iPad, and Mac