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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 23, 2021 at 04:17 PM
Yep to everything you say, Sarah.
Steve
Sarah wrote:
So do I. I consider it a completely different software experience,
>altogether.
>
>And I won’t say it’s unwelcoming, but to me, it’s overwhelming. From the
>first page of whatever software you’re looking at, everybody’s speaking
>a different language. They all seem to know what they’re talking about &
>they’re all set.
>
>That’s fine, it’s just where the fun ends for me.
>
>
>Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>A note of solidarity, Daly: I too find GitHub baffling.
>>
>>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>>I am sure those links are meaningful to some people if they’re into
>>>programming and coding. For the rest of us, I wonder if Athens and
>Foam
>>>have their own web pages which aren’t quite as esoteric as what is
>>>posted on GitHub.
>>>
>>>satis wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Luhmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>- Athens https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
>>>>
>>>>Athens is interesting in that the dev interviewed with Roam, and
>>>>apparently after failing to gain employment fairly quickly wrote this
>>>>open-source version using Clojure. And he later secured $1m+ in
>>>>financing for it.
>>>>
>>>>Another open source Roam clone to consider is Foam.
>>>>
>>>>https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
Posted by Luhmann
Aug 23, 2021 at 04:43 PM
It is far from there yet, but I like the fact that the developers of Logseq have as one of their goals the idea that their app could be usable by children.
Posted by Simon
Aug 25, 2021 at 08:24 PM
In terms of a native app Tinderbox has seen a lot of development and is still one of the best notes apps in existence. Step learning curve but phenomenally powerful.
Also the humble plain vanilla tiddlywiki can do just about anything. Everything is a tiddler. It is extremely powerful. I’m finding it one of the most flexible apps about. And it’s free!
Posted by Darren McDonald
Aug 27, 2021 at 03:08 AM
Thanks @Luhmann for the reminder of Logseq. I have been trying it out recently and can see where Logseq has the best mix of features from Roam and Obsidian. There is still much more development to be done before I can use Logseq as a depository for my thoughts and findings in my research, but the base features together with Logseq’s inbuilt feature for using highlights of PDFs is what have been searching for some time. This is wonderful for academic research :)
I find that the major issue I have with the Logseq is using it for a depository with Dropbox which is accessed from the home and work computers. I am sure this will be rectified with time.
Luhmann wrote:
It is far from there yet, but I like the fact that the developers of
>Logseq have as one of their goals the idea that their app could be
>usable by children.
Posted by Luhmann
Aug 27, 2021 at 10:08 AM
What is the issue you have with Dropbox? I know a lot of people are using it with Dropbox…
Darren McDonald wrote:
>I find that the major issue I have with the Logseq is using it for a
>depository with Dropbox which is accessed from the home and work
>computers. I am sure this will be rectified with time.