MadaboutDana
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Hm, I've found competent local AI doesn't necessarily overburden local hardware, especially the Chinese models. The American approach does lead us all to believe that without ridiculous amounts of com...
Review of Traverse
2 days ago
I've been playing with it over the weekend, and find it to be an exceptionally flexible take on your standard outliner. There have been a couple of previous apps that allowed you to extend outlines ho...
Apps for Retirement
2 days ago
Yep, refurbs are now my preferred option – you can get some outstanding bargains on refurbished hardware. My Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 (7 years old, but still powerful enough for what I'm doing, espe...
Walling being rebranded as Walling.io
2 days ago
Such a nice idea. But can one trust them... ?
Life without AI
2 days ago
SeaTable will also do this – and the free tier is a very generous one (I've been experimenting with it for some time).
Ah, there's no hijacking of threads in this forum – things end up far, far away from where they started! ;-)
Review of Traverse
5 days ago
Thanks for the tip! Now that is a very nice piece of software...
Hm, okay, but why not just use a good full-text indexing engine?
Well said – hence my love of Numbers! But I too am trying to ditch not just Microsoft but also Apple. It's proving quite difficult, but I am making progress... the user-friendliness quotient is the ma...
Love the look of Karavan – first impression is very positive!
Very nice!
In return, a markdown app that also supports full-scale spreadsheets plus Notion-like databases, in rapid development by Italian developer Luca Rossi (famous for the Refactoring newslet...
Getoutline
1 week ago
It's a great solution for a small team, and we've looked at it quite seriously. But no, it's not an outliner as such.
Wow, I remember Recall as a rather good Windows-based PKM system (well, more of a full-text database). I don't think this is related, however.
AI-infused
1 week ago
Interesting. Historian Brad DeLong has been testing out various LLMs on a maxxed-out Mac Studio (under his dining-room table!), and had very positive experiences with a number of open-weight models. I...
Silly musings on embedded bases in Obsidian
1 week ago
There are already a number of Obsidian plugins that use YAML (front matter) to create sophisticated databases, right up to and including spreadsheet functionality.
There's also a very interesting a...
BeautyTasks and Plainva
7/31/2026
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?
7/23/2026
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
7/22/2026
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
7/21/2026
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
7/21/2026
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
7/20/2026
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...
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
7/19/2026
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
7/19/2026
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
7/18/2026
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...