MadaboutDana
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BeautyTasks and Plainva
1 week ago
Obsidian is the shared platform for both of the following:
(a) BeautyTasks
For those using Obsidian as a main PKM, you might want to take a look at the BeautyTasks plugin by Avni Bilgin. An atte...
Thoughts on Amplenote?
2 weeks ago
I was going to suggest the same as Stephen: Craft might actually be a better fit. It's very flexible, works well over the web, and has (yes, I have to admit) very good support for tasks, which can be ...
Parchment, a new agenda and not app
2 weeks ago
Good grief, you sound as bad as me! I currently keep daily notes in a mixture of UpNote and Obsidian, but I'm beginning to shift back to Obsidian after finding (a) BeautyTasks, which is seriously cool...
FoldNotes
2 weeks ago
Sounds pretty cool; I've had a sniff. As an inveterate Obsidian "builder", I confess I find it less exciting than creating my optimal working environment in Obsidian; having foresworn DataView, I rely...
Parchment, a new agenda and not app
2 weeks ago
It's a really nice little app (no, I couldn't resist, I went ahead and bought it, although it no longer fits into my workflow!) A couple of shortcomings: you can enter markdown, but to render it – ass...
Kosshi Is Database-Backed Outlining
2 weeks ago
If only! And... I've had to uninstall textFlow because it's not working properly in my particular installation. Ah well, win some, lose some! BeautyTasks, on the other hand, is rapidly becoming a favo...
Online information management using Typemill
2 weeks ago
Oh, and having discovered Typemill, I've just discovered PureWiki (https://purewiki.org), which is even leaner and faster. Good grief!
Both of them are really easy to install, Franz, assuming you h...
Kosshi Is Database-Backed Outlining
2 weeks ago
I've experimented with most outlining software, including Opal, but find I've gradually jettisoned them all in favour of Obsidian, which has very acceptable outlining support. And I've just discovered...
Apps for Retirement
2 weeks ago
I did try TaskForge for a little while, but found it a bit ungainly (although the developer's been putting a lot of effort into it, so it may be more sophisticated now). It does have the advantage of ...
Apps for Retirement
2 weeks ago
Oh dear. Just been playing with a positively gorgeous Obsidian plugin called BeautyTasks (yes, really) that creates something resembling a complete Todoist environment in Obsidian. It's beautifully (s...
Online information management using Typemill
3 weeks ago
Hi Franz,
Sorry, a bit overloaded with work at the mo.
I host the site on IONOS (Germany), where we've hosted all our websites since the early noughties. Very reasonably priced, very robust servers ...
Reflect Open -- Open Source Version of Reflect
3 weeks ago
It's a nice app – I had a brief play, then got sucked in and took a more serious look; this ended up in a list of issues I noticed, which I sent to Alex MacCaw (as suggested). But it's already very ca...
Online information management using Typemill
3 weeks ago
I wanted to write up the virtues of a very elegant open-source app, Typemill (https://typemill.net), which is one of the simplest, most elegant text-focused CMS solutions I've found to date. It's a fl...
FINAL|FINAL - an
3 weeks ago
It's turning into a very attractive app, but for the life of me I can't work out how to set wordcount goals. I've clicked and right-clicked on the wordcounts shown in the "cards" and in the status bar...
Apps for Retirement
4 weeks ago
@Luhmann, interesting thoughts on the role of LLMs. A quote from Brad DeLong (historian and blogger) on local models:
“Well, the championship LLM in terms of ‘thought quality’ of those I have downl...
Apps for Retirement
4 weeks ago
Well said. You mention NotePlan, which – although expensive – does do almost every possible thing you could want a PKM to do. I love it, but reluctantly abandoned it due to (a) cost, (b) diversificati...
Apps for Retirement
7/7/2026
Heh, yes, I've actually been looking at a brand-new Craft installation (having over-filled my own with too much stuff, much of it unsorted and rather inelegant, all collected since the earliest days o...
Walling Monthly Journal
7/7/2026
Can't argue with that. It is quite a nice sharing platform (although my wife found it so annoying she flatly refused to use it). And it does look lovely :-)
Miss the old VooDooPad?
7/7/2026
You are amazing, Mark! I've never seen anything quite like it – MojoPad comes across as an astonishingly mature app, despite the dizzying rate of development.
I shall have to invest (not least beca...
Apps for Retirement
7/7/2026
Increasingly, I'm looking for apps that work across all platforms, not just Mac and Windows (reading a lot of Cory Doctorow at the moment, and boy, the manipulations of Big Tech are just so depressing...
Yes, that impressed me too!
Cheers,
Bill
Graham Rhind wrote:
>I like Exsut ... a lot .... even though it's currently just a skeleton of what is could be. But what impresses me most is downloadin...
Walling Monthly Journal
7/6/2026
I've tried to love Craft, but after many years of fiddling with it and never finding a "best way" to integrate it with my own ways of working, I've finally abandoned it. But I can see why it appeals t...
First things first: it's a very beautiful app, really very good looking (nice website, too).
A few observations:
- even after messing about for a bit, I couldn't work out how to include items from...
Dang, sounds interesting! I shall have to check it out...
Obsidian as writing tool
7/3/2026
Thought I'd just put in a quick note about an Obsidian plugin I've just discovered: Canvas2Document. Basically, it generates a complete document from all or selected cards/notes on an Obsidian canvas ...