Heptabase - Crimp cured?

Posted by mkasu
Oct 4, 2023 at 01:12 AM

Tangent Notes seems very interesting. It’s also almost fascinating how niche it is. I couldn’t find virtually any materials on it except their own website and Discord channel.

I played around with it for a bit and it seems kind of interesting, but it’s also a workflow I wouldn’t want to grow too accustomed to because I’d worry the app might be discontinued at some point. As a user, I think it would make more sense to have this kind of idea as an open source Obsidian plugin as it could integrate well into the rest of the Obsidian eco system. Also, then the author wouldn’t need to make a whole new editor nor need to worry about features like sync or mobile clients.. But well, if it is a passion project I can definitely see the appeal.

Personally, I used to use TheBrain 13 until recently but I’m a bit annoyed by their recent focus on AI tools in v14 (there’s so many issues and requests which should be fixed first, but it seems to make more business sense to jump on the AI hype…). I went back to Obsidian and use it extensively in combination with the ExcaliBrain plugin which is essentially reimplementing some ideas from TheBrain in Obsidian. You can make similar maps as in TangentNote with “previous note” “next note” relationships. It is also more structured than Obsidian’s standard graph view because you can have different link types and then automatically have them appear in a certain direction (“parent links” always above, “child links” always below, previous/next to left/right etc.) Of course, it’s much more manual because you need to define links and their types to get most out of it..