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Posted by Jon Polish
Oct 26, 2020 at 07:07 PM
I’m afraid I cannot bear this thread anymore as it induces flashbacks to my college days in the ‘60s. I am hearing the pontifications of friends on LSD and amphetamines.
Jon
Posted by SmallDog
Oct 26, 2020 at 08:26 PM
I do agree it’s huge shame Expanded View was dropped.
A graph(-style) database, without something like subgraphs, that can also remember the positions of the nodes, quickly become unmanageable.
I’ve looked everywhere for an app that has a more-or-less functional equivalent of Expanded View / neighborhood / subgraph. The only ones I found:
* iMapping
* TiddlyMap
* yEd (neighborhodd)
And while they all have a lot of strengths (esp. iMapping is so under-appreciated; but I assume you are aware of it, 22111, as you appear to be German?), they also have other limitations compared to TB.
Anyone know of any other apps that have something like Expand View?
Posted by Lb
Oct 26, 2020 at 08:38 PM
Looks like I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue!
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Oct 26, 2020 at 11:54 PM
Reading this thread a question which arises for me is whether the likes of Obsidian and RoamResearch in fact make TheBrain less relevant. Both allow linking and back linking (Obsidian recently introduced back linking). Also, Obsidian now allows linking blocks as well as headings. Both have visual representation of how links connect the information contained in these programs.
Obsidian is being developed by the Dynalist team, and for most individual, non-business users is free. Also, unlike RoamResearch, your information stays with you. At least two of the YouTube productivity pundits say RoamResearch is better suited for those people who are primarily interested in collecting information, while Obsidian is for those who want to gather information with a view to using it in the process of creating new writing. After years of my complaining about markdown, Obsidian (my preference) has convinced me of its value. The only drawback with Obsidian is that it’s only available on Windows, but in future will be available on Android and other platforms. I am dusting off my Windows laptop.
I should never predict the future, but…. I think Obsidian and RoamResearch (also Notion which I’m not crazy about) will make TheBrain and other outlining programs (with the possible exception of Dynalist) less relevant and viable in the marketplace.
Daly
Posted by SmallDog
Oct 27, 2020 at 12:01 AM
> The only drawback with Obsidian is that it’s only available on Windows
I do believe that it’s available for other platforms? On their homepage (https://obsidian.md/) it says “Also available for macOS, Linux (AppImage), Linux (Snap), and Linux (Flatpak).”