Seeking an accessible cross platform note taking app

The only one I can think of that is fully accessible is One Note from Microsoft. There are also apps like notion and obsidian but they are not fully accessible. I too have tried notebooks and it is still not accessible on windows. I am finding that to be an issue with most of these style of apps. They seem to work okay on iOS but when you try out the windows version, they are not accessible.

Things3 app could be a consideration, although its mac version is very costly. Although there is no windows version, you can use email to import stuff into Things, which is a nifty feature.

I have tried Relanote which available in the windows store (has an IOS app as well); but it is very clunky and basic.

Hello, once I tried:
- IA Writer: quite OK on iOS, but not accessible on Windows (you can write text but it's complicated to access menu bar, as far as I can experience); latest versions make me crazy also on iOS because options screens do not always open when I press related buttons.
- Drafts: it's for iPad, iPhone and mac, but not for Windows. But they do not have ability to audio note, as far as I know.
I write on Windows notepad++ or other text editors the Markdown part -i use this method very often- and then save it on dropbox, where I later manage to open in the Drafts app on my mobile devices.
I suppose people who suggested Microsoft Word and Office 365 are right somehow, that is the most cross platform, or you may also try Simplenotes, which has no audio features.
I am a blogger so my needs may be different from a student needing to take notes in class or lessons, I need something which allows me to write whenever I have an idea and Drafts is the solution on the go.
I did not study complex actions it has, but it may help.
I also had another app called Byword, available only on iPhone and iPad, but it has syncing issues.

I'm not sure if they support audio recordings, but you could check out simplenote. The app and website are great and it's definitely cross-platform. Not sure if there's an actual windows program for it but the website works perfectly IMO

Re: OneNote, what always sends me running away from OneNote are (1) lack of export to text files (maybe this has changed lately) and (2) its annoying way of putting the page in "container" elements that end up either being very verbos or difficult to navigate. I was also having dropped character and line issues in speech output on Windows. If this last one has been fixed, I'd try hard to love it if I were a student.
Re: Outlook, if your outlook account is an exchange account, it's dead easy to add it to the Notes app and the two will sync. Then the limitation is how limited the Notes feature is in Outlook. Don't know if it works with a free outlook account or not. Worth a try. Google Notes can also be added, but that becomes Web-only on Windows.
Re: Notepad++, this is what I've ended up doing. Just use txt files put on a cloud service. The apple notes app is nice, but also has a lot of somewhat annoying formatting features that I don't want for my grocery lists or jottings.
Re: SimpleNote, definitely going to try that.

Also check out the "Noted" app for annotated audio recording. Haven't tried it since I posted the app directory entry.

I've come across *something* that allowed import of Evernote material. I'm guessing it was Drafts, which is free and could be used to move it from Evernote to txt, assuming Evernote doesn't have this functionality built in. At least one of the options being discussed does allow Evernote import, though, to the best of my recollection.

I'm not sure about audio notes or import/export from Evernote.

I know this is an old thread, but I have been on the hunt for a cross-platform note taking app for ages. I've tried many over the years. None of the one's I've explored fit my needs currently, due to accessibility on either PC or iOS or the way sync is handled. I am currently using Standard Notes for this purpose. It's usable via the web app with JAWS, which was important to me. Sync is really fast. There are some quirks on both web and IOS, but I'm tolerating them for now. You can export from Evernote; there is an article about this on their site. You could theoretically attach audio to notes, but I haven't tried this.

I was also going to mention Joplin. I just use the free version and use Dropbox as my datastore. I'm a pretty basic notes taker though. the iOS app is pretty easy. On Windows, it helps to turn off JAWS's virtual PC cursor (or NVDA's browse mode) at times which gets it to behave more or less like a normal application.

I love Notebooks! it's 17 dolars on iOS. I love it because it's a markdown app. I installed Notepad Plus Plus on windows and have dropbox syncing. Notebooks is great because all it is is a file system for your notes. Do not use the windows version. I didn't even get it, I just use the notepad plus plus, Notebooks, dropbox workflow. Another app I love is called NotePlan. Mostly on apple devices, but they have a web version. The developer is very responsive. It combines Markdown notes, tasks, and calendar into one app! :)

oh and if you decide to give NotePlan a try, the developer also has an app called MemoAI. it transcribes your recordings, so for example you go to a meeting, it'll transcribe it. so in your use case you can talk out your notes and have them there. the cool thing is that it'll detect action items and send them to reminders, and you can send your transcripts to NotePlan.

Any IMAP account, including iCloud, can be used to store Apple Notes prior to the CloudKit upgrade. After the CloudKit upgrade, iCloud will insist you use that, which breaks syncing with Outlook. It works for every other account type, though, including FastMail, which provides a web interface for handling Notes. However, the experience is downgraded from the CloudKit equivalent. But if you would like to use iCloud anyway with the IMAP backend, you can—simply manually add a new account to iOS for iCloud, and so long as it's not your primary account, it syncs using IMAP; disable Mail, but leave Notes on, and the notes end up in an IMAP folder called Notes that's accessible by Outlook. You may need to create an app-specific password to do this if you are not otherwise using iCloud, because iOS will try hard to get you onto the golden path for the primary account.

Or you could just do what I do and revert to using plain text files stored in folders. On iOS, use Subtext to edit text files. Much simpler, no lock-in. But it may raise your anxiety levels somewhat compared to using a nice front-end.

How is Obsidian on Apple devices? Anyone tried? I think it's just web-based, but that would be another portable solution; it, too, uses plain text files.

Obsidian is not very accessible. Core functions like adding notes and folders are completely invisible to VoiceOver, so is the settings button. You can get around it using screen recognition though.

Joplin is great. I use it. I also use Drafts.