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Posted by Lucas
Mar 10, 2021 at 10:00 PM

Luhmann wrote:
Interesting. They have a lot of key Roam features right off the bat.
>Other than Noteplan, it is the only such app right now to have a nice
>mobile app, and unlike NotePlan it is based around hierarchical outlines
>with transclusion and zooming. The only thing I couldn’t figure out how
>to do was embed a task in an outline, seems that right now the task list
>is completely separate?

My thoughts exactly. In fact, other than AmpleNote, which doesn’t have folding and zooming last I checked, Hypernotes appears to be the only Roam-like cross-platform option with mobile apps. (Obsidian, which doesn’t have zooming/hoisting but is nonetheless excellent, is now working on mobile apps.)

Hypernotes appears to still have some bugs, which is okay for a just-released beta, but I did figure out the tasks thing. If you type / then select new task, then write the task between the last two parentheses that get concerted. Not very intuitive at the moment, but it works.

As for export, I am trusting that it’s on the horizon, as Zenkit specifically lists export options as one of the things that makes it better than Notion: https://zenkit.com/en/base/alternatives/notion-alternative/

jsamlarose, thanks for your review!

Posted by Lucas
Mar 10, 2021 at 10:01 PM

Oh, one other thing. Hypernotes appears to now be available on all platforms:

https://zenkit.com/en/hypernotes/platforms/

Posted by Luhmann
Mar 11, 2021 at 02:36 AM

I could not understand how to make this work.

Lucas wrote:
>If you type /
>then select new task, then write the task between the last two
>parentheses that get concerted. Not very intuitive at the moment, but it
>works.

Posted by Lucas
Mar 11, 2021 at 03:56 AM

Luhmann wrote:
I could not understand how to make this work.
> >Lucas wrote:
>>If you type /
>>then select new task, then write the task between the last two
>>parentheses that get concerted. Not very intuitive at the moment, but
>it
>>works.
>

Here are the steps:
1. Type “/” at the beginning of a line
2. A drop-down menu appears, the first item in the drop-down list being “Page Reference”. Select the fourth option, “Task”.
3. A new drop-down menu appears. Select the last item in the drop-down list, which should be “Create Task”.
4. Something like the following will now appear in the editor:

((b511ffe9-ea54-44ce-b0d8-10c9183fce91))()

There is a bug whereby if one clicks on the line, an extra set of parentheses maybe be added to the end of the line. If that happens, delete the extra set of parentheses. In other words, if the line ends with “()()”, change it to “()”.

Type the name of the task between the last two parentheses, e.g.:

!((b511ffe9-ea54-44ce-b0d8-10c9183fce91))(My task)

Now, when you click on another line, so that you leave edit mode for line just created, you should see your newly created task, “My task”.

HTH

Posted by Luhmann
Mar 11, 2021 at 08:13 AM

Thanks. I see it now. I didn’t realize that the / menu scrolled.
Weird thing is that if you get a task, it doesn’t tell you if it is done or not. And when you click on it, the task interface takes over and the only way to get back to the outline is to force the app to restart? I guess it all needs work, but still nice to have a Roam-like app that is mobile first….

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