Zenkit Hypernotes - closed beta

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 12, 2021 at 05:51 PM

I’m not sure I agree entirely with the sentiment here. Yes, Zenkit’s Hypernotes uses bi-directional linking, an outline structure, and a graph, each of which is absolutely borrowed from Roam. But it uses a very different organizing method, and is aimed at collaboration. Hypernotes allows you to build as many notebooks (which correlates to Roam’s Graphs), while Roam only allows three AND you can’t even rename them. And the task feature is fairly significant, I think.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, just that there are some significant differences that some people (me for instance) might find appealing. Hypernotes has a long way to go to smooth out some issues (the way you have to create a task, for instance, is idiotic).

I admire Roam a great deal, but three tries at making it work for me have failed. Once Hypernotes gets the kinks worked out, I would seriously consider using it.

Luhmann wrote:
Reads like it was a press release from Zenkit… Glad they mention Roam,
>but there is no sense of how exactly this is a clone… down to the
>language and syntax used to describe various parts of the system. The
>only innovations I can see are (1) an ios app (2) task manager, and (3)
>a commenting system. Otherwise it is all Roam.