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Roam v. Obsidian
5/8/2021
This is a pretty good piece. Two things I wished they'd added:
1. Obsidian is working on a WYSIWYG editor which will replace the plain text/preview approach for those who want it. Considering the pac...
I personally don't use the transclusion feature of Roam (block references) as much as I might, but here is a video showing how this can be useful for task management. Funnily enough, he also uses appl...
Half-baked features
5/4/2021
This is a bit of a followup on my post about task management in note taking apps. What I really wanted to say was that it really bothers me how many apps these days add a whole bunch of features witho...
Regarding calendar based task management. This really makes no sense for me. I have due dates, yes, but how I use my time throughout the day is very fluid, and it would not make sense to try to put my...
So one of the things that both Roam and Obsidian do well (although I am more familiar with Roam) is allow you to filter your backlinks. So, if you have a bunch of meetings with [[Joan Smith]] and half...
It was just an example. I don't actually do my food shopping this way...
>I do all my food shopping with Anylist (free or cheap yearly plan) which
>lets me tag items by store, imports ingredients fr...
Very interesting how different people work, but I realize I just assumed it was obvious why someone would want to organize tasks in a knowledge manager because it is now the only way I can work, but I...
One of the first things I now do when someone mentions a new knowledge management app is to look at how it handles task management. A simple checklist is simply not enough for me. At the very least I ...
Outlining in Obsidian
4/14/2021
I felt that this plugin deserved its own thread, since it was earlier posted to another discussion where it was a bit off-topic. It seems someone has written an outliner plugin for Obsidian that is de...
Mem
4/12/2021
There is a third party solution to do this on Roam:
https://www.phonetoroam.com/register
Mem
4/12/2021
Seems the reason it got 5.6 million US in seed money is the fact that they want to leverage your data for marketing:
https://twitter.com/jevakallio/status/1379557958439333889
I also got an invite to...
Roam's new Backend
4/11/2021
Interesting discussion about Roam’s backend. The current one was designed for rapid deployment, but now it is clear that they need something more robust to support a mobile app, API, speed, etc....
Obsidian mobile app in alpha testing
4/10/2021
Wow. Now THIS is something that might make me switch back. I'll have to give it a try...
Lucas wrote:
And in other Obsidian news, there is now an Outliner plugin, which
>allows for zooming/hoisting (...
Great work. Even if I don't use it myself, I'm glad to see it out in the world!
Zooming in Craft
4/2/2021
I've been playing a bit with the Mac / iOS app Craft: https://www.craft.do/
One thing I find interesting/frustrating is that while it isn't a bad outliner, zooming in on a block doesn’t zoom i...
keepmark
3/28/2021
Looks like it could be an interesting Evernote competitor. Too bad there is no mobile app.
Transno
3/22/2021
A bit of history.
Mubu was a Chinese outliner app that was bought by ByteDance (famous as the company behind Tiktok) back in 2018. They then relaunched it under the Singapore based Transno, although ...
Zenkit Hypernotes - closed beta
3/11/2021
Reads like it was a press release from Zenkit... Glad they mention Roam, but there is no sense of how exactly this is a clone... down to the language and syntax used to describe various parts of the s...
Zenkit Hypernotes - closed beta
3/11/2021
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 ov...
Zenkit Hypernotes - closed beta
3/11/2021
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 mo...
Zenkit Hypernotes - closed beta
3/10/2021
One concern is lock-in. I don’t see any export options right now.
Zenkit Hypernotes - closed beta
3/10/2021
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 hierarchic...
Tree app - macOS
3/4/2021
Interesting. Dashword is also a Windows app, but no mobile apps.
Moo.do
3/2/2021
If I can, I'll try to write up a separate post on it, so as not to hijack this thread, but the short answer is that I solve two problems: (1) integration with Todoist (that offers some features Roam d...
Moo.do
2/28/2021
Looking at their blog, it seems that they their strategy of betting everything on Google/Gmail backfired when changes to Google broke the hooks they used to integrate with Gmail. They later came up wi...