Thanks for that tip! Excalibrain sounds really interesting. I'm enjoying Tangent, and there are some nice ideas coming along in the near future, but I'm not anxious to move lock, stock and barrel away from the (very powerful, flexible) Obsidian just yet!

mkasu wrote:

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..