What was read
7 companies placed; 1 read during October 2026.
- ObsidianSep 30, 2026
- NotionSep 30, 2026
- BearSep 30, 2026
- EvernoteSep 30, 2026
- CraftSep 30, 2026
- Lock-in and syncSep 30, 2026
- Students and knowledge workersOct 1, 2026
Gaps closed and opened
3 themes were raised about two or more of 6 read companies; 1 shares no word with anything a company declares. Against the previous month: 3 gaps opened and 0 closed (0 now share a word with a declared capability, 0 no longer raised about two companies). Themes are compared by their words, so a theme the reading reworded counts as one closed and one opened.
- Opened · 3
- Bugs and reliability, Price increases, Price level
- Now answered in the declared names · 0
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- No longer raised about two companies · 0
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- ◌ Bugs and reliabilityraised about 2 of 6 · no declared match
- ◌ Price increasesraised about 2 of 6 · no declared match
- ◌ Price levelraised about 2 of 6 · no declared match
Who entered
0 companies placed; 5 products sighted by a search and not yet read (Granola, Notability, Anytype, Mem, Turbo AI).
Pricing moves
6 of 7 read companies have a pricing entry on record; none recorded a pricing change this month.
- Obsidian [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Obsidian's pricing consists of the free core app plus four paid add-ons: Sync at $5/month ($4/month billed annually), Publish at $10/month ($8/month billed annually), Catalyst as a one-time $25+ donation tier, and an optional Commercial license at $50/user/year. Students, faculty, and nonprofit employees get 40% off Sync and Publish. source
- Bear [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Bear offers a free plan (local notes, basic editing, limited export, single device) and a Bear Pro plan priced at $2.99/month or $29.99/year, with a 14-day free trial. source
- Notion [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Notion's current pricing baseline (per third-party pricing trackers referencing Notion's own page) is Free ($0), Plus ($10/member/month annual, $12 monthly), Business ($20/member/month annual, $24 monthly), and Enterprise (custom). Full Notion AI capability (AI Agents, Ask Notion) is gated to the Business plan and above; Free and Plus receive only a limited AI trial allocation. source
- Evernote [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Evernote's 2026 lineup is reported as Free, Starter, Advanced, and Enterprise (custom), replacing the older Personal/Professional naming; one tracker cites Starter at $8.25/mo ($99/yr) and Advanced at $20.83/mo ($249.99/yr), with the free tier cut to 50 notes and 1 notebook. source
- Craft [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Craft's current plan structure is Starter (Free) with up to 1,500 content blocks, 1GB storage, 25MB media uploads, 7-day version history, and 15 AI credits/month; Plus at roughly $8/month (with discounted rates shown, e.g. $6.4/month) offering unlimited documents/storage/media, 30-day version history, and 50 AI credits/month; Family as a fixed-price bundle of 2-6 Plus accounts; and Team as a fixed-price bundle of up to 10 Plus accounts (~$50/month). source
- Lock-in and sync [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Evernote replaced its Personal/Professional plans with new Starter and Advanced tiers, with price increases reported to $8.25/month for Starter and $20.83/month for Advanced; US renewals reportedly jumped from $129 to $249 and EU from €99 to €199. source
What users raised
21 themes raised by users; the most raised: Bugs and reliability (2 of 6), Price increases (2 of 6), Price level (2 of 6).
- Bugs and reliability 2/6
- Price increases 2/6
- Price level 2/6
- Accuracy and output quality 1/6
- Apple-ecosystem lock-in 1/6
- Billing, fees and cancellation 1/6
- capture without retrieval ('save everything and find nothing') 1/6
- Collaboration and permissions 1/6
- Commercial license confusion/compliance overhead 1/6
- Complexity, setup and learning curve 1/6
- Customization and branding 1/6
- Data export and lock-in 1/6
- Free tier, trial and paywalled features 1/6
- Integrations and API 1/6
- Manual work and automation 1/6
- Mobile apps 1/6
- pricier than alternatives like Notion/Obsidian 1/6
- Privacy and security 1/6
- Shared-vault limitations 1/6
- Sync and offline 1/6
- Vendor lock-in with proprietary formats 1/6
Funding by quarter
2 rounds recorded across 2 read quarters; sums are floors per currency and per tag, never combined.
- 2025-Q1not read
- 2025-Q2not read
- 2025-Q3not read
- 2025-Q4not read
- 2026-Q1not read
- 2026-Q2not read
- 2026-Q32 rounds
- 2026-Q40 rounds
The ledger this month
0 observed claims recorded this month, 3 inferences counted apart.
How big this market is, as its publishers state it
No market-size figure has been recorded for this level yet. Not read is not zero.
Research-house estimates for this sector, carried side by side under each house’s own name. Estimates of one market can differ several-fold; none is averaged, and none is Forge’s.
No publisher is named for this level yet, so there is nothing to read from. Publishers are authored in the taxonomy and arrive with a deploy.