TheBrain v. Obsidian as of May 2021

Posted by moritz
May 10, 2021 at 05:40 AM

I am also much impressed with Obsidian and have made a donation accordingly.

For my workstyle, I discovered that the nature of “Zettelkasten” - i.e. need to type in an capture your thoughts and refine over time - represents a huge overhead for my primary Brain use case: Structuring “discovered” information (web pages, articles, concepts, people, projects, tasks, ...).
I have seen people showing a bookshelf full of paper notebooks and note cards, and hailing Obsidian (or Roam ...) as a good solution that allows them to go digital.
My PoV is different, in that I would have never done the paper thing to begin with ...
I am curating, editing, arranging, augmenting.
I am not writing books here (and don’t have time to).

Re:previous poster integration with time management - possible on 2 levels: Tasks are globally aggregated, and links to timeline are also available to link thoughts to milestones.
The tasks aspect in particular interestingly has led to an almost symmetrical workflow between TB (one click to get there) and Obsidian (when I was trying to use it for the same purpose).

I hope that makes sense to show the kind of bias that might lead somebody to consider TheBrain in preference to “type it all yourself” Obsidian?