Former ConnectedText users, what software did you switch to?

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 10, 2025 at 09:17 PM

Thank you for the friendly messages… I never really went away, I was just too busy with other things to post. It’s been nice be able to follow the adventures of long-time members here.

The nature of my work took me away from note-taking, outlining and writing for a few years, and for the type of work I was doing, WorkFlowy and RoamResearch were just fine (well, more than fine, I love both and use them every day).

But now I’m pivoting back to more extensive reading, note-taking and writing, and having just upgraded to a Windows 11 laptop, I also need to review which software and what data I can or should transfer from my old machine.

Thank you for all the suggestions. I’ve been checking out InfoQube, Obsidian, and Heptabase.

For now I’m gravitating towards Obsidian, as I like the interface, the distraction-free writing experience, and the fact that the underlying data can be backed up independently from the software or even read by multiple other software, and on top of that it’s free or relatively affordable with the sync.

I do like the Markdown approach, the relative simplicity of it.

Amontillado wrote:
Yes, very nice to see your post, Dr. Andus.
> >It was one of your posts that caught my eye via Google and brought me
>here. Any way you could be lured back?
> >Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I can’t really help, other than to recommend that if you end up NOT
>>choosing Obsidian, you might want to look at Heptabase.
>>
>>Steve Z.
>>
>>P.S. It feels like a blast from the past to see your name on the forum,
>>Dr. Andus.