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Former ConnectedText users, what software did you switch to?
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Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It was reading Dr Andus’ posts here more than a decade ago that led me to ConnectedText. It was a lovely piece of software backed by a superb community. Even after development ceased (a sad story) it was useful on Windows for a while. I migrated many of my notes to DEVONthink, where their usefulness aged out. When Obsidian showed up in private beta April 2020 I started my first vault, which is still my daily note hub, despite numerous CRIMPing side trips to other apps.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Oct 15, 2025 at 01:34 PM
I always thought of ConnectedText as the closest thing to Tinderbox on Windows… better than Tinderbox as the learning curve wasn’t so steep. I believe CT was the inspiration for Roam and other outline and graph apps. Excellent software.
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 16, 2025 at 01:14 PM
Hello Tomasz and Paul,
Thank you for the kind words, it’s good to hear from you and see your posts, too!
Glad to hear that Obsidian works for you as a CT replacement.
Yes, the first time I heard about Obsidian, it also reminded me of CT, but when it came out, I was mainly working online, on Chromebooks, and didn’t want to be tied down to a Windows machine.
It is with a heavy heart that I have to bid farewell to ConnectedText.
I’m keeping my Windows 10 laptop alive as long as I can only to serve as my personal CT museum…
Indeed, if there is a museum for the history of software, it should be there.
Posted by TempusFugit
Oct 24, 2025 at 07:34 PM
Dr. A:
I migrated to “Obsidian App” and am more than impressed.
Very modifiable.
Check YT videos, esp. by a creator called “Danny Hatcher” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAfBpltPx0w
I stopped using CT years ago, but try to export your Topics/Entries to a common format.
Either as a Group and/or Individual Topics.
Perhaps Export your CT entries to most simple text level.
There are already some plugins that facilitate importation of some common backups.
But, consider the power of ChatGPT and/or Grok to
(A) Learn / recall “Obsidian App” use of YAML in *.md files (your target format)
then for whatever backup/export file type you use to exfil your CT content
(A) ask the AI to take either the xml or other output CT file and TRANSLATE IT to YAML / *.md
Try this on various export types OR worst case, feed the AI the raw text of the output file and ask ChatGPT/Grok to transform to yaml/md
you can tag and categorize each note for connectivity.
You may have to re-tag and re-categ your notes. (Or see if the AI can discern and translate CT’s tags as defined in it exports.)
“Obsidian App” is free / open design / LOCAL and not on Amazon Servers.
You can adapt to it. I promise.
Posted by TempusFugit
Oct 24, 2025 at 07:34 PM
as you may have seen, “Obsidian App” has many ZK plugins.