MadaboutDana
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Brainio reborn...
5/11/2026
I have to say, this is why I actually use a completely separate tool (the super-search engine FoxTrot Professional) to scour through my now vast archive of reference materials (including every kind of...
SilverBullet
5/11/2026
An attractive concept, but a very personal one. Frankly, all the messing about with frontmatter attributes, tagging etc. to produce databases, meta-glossaries etc. is a bit OTT (in fact, my appalled d...
Brainio reborn...
5/11/2026
Heh, love that – maybe it's the Ultimate Justification for being a CRIMPer – to become a butterfly emerging from a constraining chrysalis, leaving the "digital clutter" behind...
Goodness knows I'...
Brainio reborn...
5/8/2026
You are not wrong, but yes, bulk importing from e.g. proprietary formats is (very) hard. Which is why so many of the best notetaking apps use folders + markdown files as their basic content – because ...
Forum redesign
5/8/2026
Or maybe they could be sorted (if so desired) by Newest First? But hey, it's brilliant anyway!
Paul Korm wrote:
>Chris, could threads slew down to the last entry read? Like in Discourse. (Just...
That's a point – I'd forgotten that Notebooks can concatenate. Thanks for reminding me!
(Yet another) interesting new app!
5/8/2026
It's quite a while since I wrote about Notenik, and during that time, it's progressed from strength to strength. But I don't use it very often, except out of curiosity.
However! My attention was re...
The only app I can think of that more or less directly mirrors OneNote on Linux is BasketNotes (https://basket-notepads.github.io), but I don't think it imports OneNote files.
The best OneNote equ...
Alfons Schmid's Notebooks
5/8/2026
Agreed: Alfons is lovely, but how he makes a living out of Notebooks I don't know, because he rarely charges for upgrades. I did use it quite a lot, but since going multi-platform have used it less an...
Brainio reborn...
5/8/2026
Good point!
Mike Sautkulis wrote:
>Great looking app.
>One comment... As a mobile user I'd like to mention the lack of Indent/Outdent buttons.
All-In-One solution?
5/8/2026
OneNote is a good example of Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" principle (now defined in Wikipedia, no less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification)
But I remain astonished at the many per...
Absolutely. I remain on the lookout for promising writing apps that can do this, or do what Scrivener and Ulysses do (concatenate multiple notes/documents in a single view). Sadly, the only really sim...
That's interesting – I'd forgotten all about iA Writer's transclusion feature. Obsidian can do the same thing, of course...
>iA Writer supports transclusion with its "content blocks" feature, so l...
Brainio reborn...
5/5/2026
Interesting to see how many notetakers are going down this route. Octarine is evolving in a similar direction, and of course it's built into Obsidian. Although Brainio's mindmapping is somewhat closer...
Brainio reborn...
5/5/2026
Dang, the people behind Brainio have just released a brand-new, all-rewritten version – currently free of charge! It does look extremely attractive (nice mixture of text, mindmapping and hybrid). More...
WikiWise local wiki generator
5/2/2026
Having tested Claude extensively, I would be Very Wary of giving it access to my data. But the idea does look pretty cool.
Logseq DB Update?
5/2/2026
... unless one was just CRIMPing, of course, in which case experimenting is half the fun!
Depends on your platform(s): a couple of clues suggest you're working in Windows, but perhaps you could clarify?
And welcome to the forum! We're all Very Proud of the host, Chris, who's just enhanc...
All-In-One solution?
5/1/2026
No, that's true – UpNote isn't date-aware at all. You can use TickTick as your all-in-one, of course – I share TickTick in a small office environment, and we have quite a lot of useful notes in there ...
NotesGarden
5/1/2026
Love the look of this, but (a) it's online-only at the moment? And (b) the subscription price is perhaps a wee bit ambitious for a brand-new solution?
But a really nice idea!
All-In-One solution?
5/1/2026
Hi Mike,
Ah, the all-in-one approach is one of those things that hovers, just out of reach...
I've been using Obsidian as my go-to here, because of its unbelievable flexibility. On the other han...
Forum redesign
5/1/2026
Just another endorsement to say: this really is the bees' knees! Very elegant, very easy to use. I'd love to know what the back end is?
Whew, thanks for reminding me, Paul – I was beginning to hyperventilate...
Paul Korm wrote:
>There's always the weekend, Bill ...
Funnily enough, I caught sight of this just yesterday – but with extraordinary self-discipline, managed to stop myself from downloading it... Damn, maybe I'm going to have to after all...
Oh wow, I hadn't seen that – and I use Task Board! I'll take a look straight away...