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What notes software have you found it FUN to use?
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Posted by Amontillado
Oct 20, 2023 at 12:49 PM
Curio is an unrecognized wonder. I tend to use it for brainstorming and outlining, not note taking, except in one important area - math.
I’m math stupid, always have been, and I’m trying to heal myself. Nothing does math notes like Curio. I can insert equations with Mathjax and add sidebar text boxes (figures, in Curio-speak). Screen shots from Geogebra fill in the geometry. When I retire at age 135 or so, I intend to enroll in college math courses. I’ll be that annoying old Elmer Fudd on the front row who aces every assignment. Curio will be my secret weapon.
As an outliner or mind mapper, Curio appears at first glance to lack notes attachments. However, everything in Curio can have an attached note, outline entries and mindmap nodes included. Activate the notes inspector and away you go. The notes are in a floating pane, not inline. I find that is a small concession.
Posted by Barrage
Oct 21, 2023 at 07:52 AM
There seem to be a few apps going by the name Curio these days…is Curio by Zengobi the one of which you speak?
Posted by Cyganet
Oct 21, 2023 at 08:15 AM
I use different programs for notetaking, brainstorming, diagramming and task management because each one of these activities needs me to think in a different way.
I have fun when a program makes it easy for me to add, review and find back information.
I enjoy using Freemind because it is still the fastest, smoothest mindmapper with an elegant look. Others are more powerful but clunkier.
I have geeky fun making complex multi-level sorting and grouping rules in InfoQube for my task list, and using auto-assignment rules to cascade a set of metdadata changes when I complete a task.
I enjoy laying out cards on Obsidian canvas and seeing where my outline is getting snagged up, something that isn’t possible in a linear outline.
Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 21, 2023 at 09:21 AM
Yes, for me, and I think also for others.
Barrage wrote:
There seem to be a few apps going by the name Curio these days…is
>Curio by Zengobi the one of which you speak?
Posted by James Salla
Oct 25, 2023 at 03:50 AM
Even though it is a very old program, I have a great deal of affection for Brainstorm. As well as its simplicity in creating child nodes that have more than one parent, Brainstorm’s bins feature makes moving nodes around very easy, and it’s the only software I know of that lets you have more than one part of a complex outline open at the same time. I keep hoping there will be more development of Brainstorm.
I also found Noteliner to be both ingenious and useful. Unfortunately the program appears to be orphanware.