Former ConnectedText users, what software did you switch to?

Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM

An interesting journey. Since you’re gravitating to Obsidian for longer, more data-intensive work, can I recommend the plugin “Various Complements”, which is by far the fastest and most convenient way of mining the data in an Obsidian vault. While you’re typing, it automatically scans your markdown files for name matches and pulls them up in a dialog box just below the line you’re typing. You can then create a link to a specific note by selecting the relevant entry in the dialog box. It’s very unobtrusive, but if you’re looking for links with previous work, amazingly useful. It’s also useful for inserting contact details (I’ve transferred my contact management into Obsidian for precisely this reason: another plugin, “@Symbol Linking”, focuses exclusively on a contacts folder, if you’ve got one).

Cheers!
Bill

Dr Andus wrote:
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.