Former ConnectedText users, what software did you switch to?

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM

Hello, former CT users,

What software have you ended up using after CT and how easy or hard was to import your data?

I bought a new Windows 11 laptop, and I’m wondering what software I should switch to, as I’m not sure I can install CT on it or if it’s worth it.

Not having the CT forum any more I lost access to lots of useful knowledge about tricks and solutions to CT issues, such as how to move CT painlessly to a new machine.

I’ve been considering Obsidian, as I like the basic interface (haven’t tried any plugins yet), but I’m a bit daunted by the task of having to modify my CT data to be sufficiently useful (readable, given all the CT syntax in there, links to image files etc).

I haven’t had to deal with regex for years, not looking forward to having to re-learn all that stuff, or to messing around for days with thousands of text files.

Any advice on how to migrate out of CT and where to, relatively painlessly?