Paul Korm
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Task Board for Obsidian is excellent. Craft recently introduced (in beta) a very minimalist and sort of pointless Kanban view for its Collection figures. Best to do this sort of tjhing in Obsidian...
Tana builds a new Tana
3 weeks ago
The Tana owners, in answer to questions, mentioned that the "new Tana" will operate in preview mode for existing customers, but 100% of data in the "old Tana" will not be transferable to the new platf...
Tana builds a new Tana
3 weeks ago
Announcement today from Tana. (This does not thrill me.) It reads like what ChatGPT would say if you asked it to write a product teaser using every buzzword for the current thing.
>First, a small...
Roam Research -- Recent Experience?
3 weeks ago
Good (important) point. If Tinderbox were being born today, it would be Tana.
exatty95 wrote:
>I find Tana's supertags/fields approach to be much easier to implement
>effectively than Tinderbox's at...
Have you filed a bug report? Before I give up on software I've invested years in, I'll always ask staff for help. If there's no staff response, then leaving is maybe the right option.
Need a memory jog
1/25/2026
There's something about an AI-generated mind map that feels more than a bit off. Mind mapping in my experience is using a visualization to work out the intricacies of a problem, or project, or resea...
Dynalist Revisited
1/21/2026
This I agree with. Sometimes devs keep deving enhancements that no one needs much. Maybe it's refreshing when a dev says "done".
jaslar wrote:
>It does what I want it to
Dynalist Revisited
1/17/2026
The Dynalist developers, Erica Xu and Shida Li, created Obsidian, and that's when Dynalist went onto the back burner. If Dynalist's forum is an indicator, where there is almost total silence from t...
Recent Heptabase Experience
1/1/2026
A few times a year I check out Heptabase for a while and then delete it. I just cannot find a reason to use it. For me, Zengobi's Curio provides all the visual notetaking and organization that I ne...
Obsidian Bases -- any use cases?
12/6/2025
Thank you. So you inserted a Base into the templates for "products"-type notes and for "vendor"-type notes. I would do this with Dataview, but I get the point of your approach. (Of course, the st...
Obsidian Bases -- any use cases?
12/4/2025
I have dozens of Dataview queries going on in Obsidian, and many templates that install a query into a note. I've fiddled a bit with the (relatively) new Bases feature which I suppose is the in-hous...
@Lucas, have you tried the app?
satis wrote:
>But in 2025 how many people are reading newspapers? And how many would
>want to go back?
Uh ... me. I read newspapers and lots of "serious" magazines. The weekend FT provides a enjo...
It's hard to believe we're just at the beginning of tools like Claude Code (and others) in the hands of the general public. What'll we have in a year, two years?
I've played with Claude Code, but I...
Tana adds offline mode
11/7/2025
Tana released its update to the desktop app. supporting offline mode.
https://tana.inc/desktop
An interesting move for a graph database that is normally cloud-first. Though there must be now a loc...
OmniOutliner 6
11/6/2025
It looks like one use for the linked directories (connected folders?) is to replace the OmniSync service. Another use would be collaboration support.
Amontillado wrote:
>I haven't figured out the ...
OmniOutliner 6
11/6/2025
I'm glad to see OmniOutliner is now a universal app. In the past it was a pain to get files back and forth from the desktop to the mobile app.
"Outliner" always seemed like a misnomer. It's reall...
Tokie.is - inline notes in finder..
11/6/2025
It's an interesting concept. I don't like the file browser. Seems hacky and missing some basic view options. For my money, I think PathFinder does better with that part. I don't have a case fo...
I bounce around. For focus solely on composition, I'll use TextEdit (or Notepad on Windows). It's just about the text in those apps, and little to distract. And they're free.
If I want to turn ...
Has Nisus disappeared?
10/24/2025
The New Yorker recently published a short piece by Kyle Chayka on the beauty of Apple's TextEdit app:
Kyle wrote:
>"I trust in TextEdit. It doesn’t redesign its interface without warning, the ...
It was reading Dr Andus' posts here more than a decade ago that led me to ConnectedText. It was a lovely piece of software backed by a superb community. Even after development ceased (a sad story)...
Have you checked the Internet Archive (archive.org) to see if the Connected Text forum was archived there?
AI-infused
10/4/2025
This might be helpful regarding NotebookLM privacy:
https://notebooklm.in/balancing-innovation-and-privacy-notebooklm-and-data-protection/#:~:text=NotebookLM%20is%20designed%20with%20user,users%20inp...
SheetPlanner 5.1 Coming soon
10/4/2025
Thank you Peter!
AI-infused
10/3/2025
It is usually possible with ChatGPT, Claude, etc., to tell it to tone down or eliminate entirely the "attaboy, great question" type of response.
Like, @satis, i've had some fascinating conversation...