Best learning app with integrated task management for Academics?

Posted by Darren McDonald
May 18, 2025 at 05:10 PM

@Amontillado, I have seen you post several times about how you use Devonthink in your research work.
I am most interested in how you use it for notetaking. (I have a memory of reading how you use Devonthink for notetaking along the lines of Obsidian or other such software. I tried to search where you wrote about this in the forum, but could not find your comment. Apologies if my memory is wrong).
If you use it for notetaking can you point me to some resources in how you do this?

I have a little time to tinker with apps before another large research project commences. After working with Obsidian for some time, Capacities looks very attractive to me. I have to rely on a lot of plugins to make Obsidian work for me, but the plug-ins I need to use are causing me too many problems. Capacities seems to have what I need out of the box, with more features on the roadmap that I think will help me get better work done much easier.

I want to see if Devonthink opens up better ways to take notes, and you seem like the perfect source of guidance. :)

Amontillado wrote:
I believe this might be addressed by the Obsidian option to put
>attachments elsewhere other than in the current folder with the
>document.
> >Devonthink remains my go-to for organizing information. I think version
>4, which I can’t yet run due to my antiquated coal-fired Mac, has a node
>map function. That’s the only Obsidian feature I wish DT V3 had, and
>it’s not a deal killer for me. The see-also pane in the Inspector does
>what I need, even though not graphically.
> >My quirky beef with Obsidian is that I need a separate copy of each
>community plugin in each vault. I prefer many vaults/databases over a
>single huge one.
> >Lucine wrote:
>Hi Satis,
>>
>>photes.io seems intriguing, thanks for the recommendation. I did try
>out
>>Obsidian a couple of times, uninstalling it every time. The last time
>>was almost a year ago, but it had this very annoying problem of putting
>>images in the document as sub-documents in the navigation pane, which
>>became insanely chaotic after just a few docs.