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Former ConnectedText users, what software did you switch to?
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Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 8, 2025 at 04:31 PM
Many thanks for all the suggestions.
I still have CT running on my old Windows 10 laptop, so I’m able to export in any of the available formats.
I guess one of my problems is that I stopped using CT on a daily basis a few years ago, as Roam and WorkFlowy fulfilled my daily needs.
This means that I forgot a lot of the CT-related practical knowledge of how to use all its features and lost the muscle memory for the various shortcuts.
I always thought I could just go back to the CT Forum for advice, as it had a huge amount of helpful tricks and scripts, such as advice on how to e.g. reinstall CT on a new machine and replicate one’s old setup or even AutoHotkey and Python scripts.
But now that this resource is lost, I’d need to re-learn some of the intricacies of the software.
Also, I have a huge amount of links to specific files on that old laptop, so running a clean and new copy of CT in a virtual environment won’t help me much, as the links and files would be gone, unless I also import those files into the virtual environment, which would be a huge hassle probably.
Anyway, I’m ready to move on to a different solution. I don’t necessarily need to import everything, and if some of the transclusion no longer works, I can live with that.
Thank you for the IQ suggestion. I am aware that IQ is an incredibly sophisticated software, and I have trialled it a few times, but I struggled to overcome its complexity, and it might be overkill for my needs.
Ultimately all I need is plain text, Markdown, and wiki links, in order to create (or re-create) my own knowledge base in the form of a personal wiki, and being able to find things through search.
Using LLM to help with regex is a great suggestion, many thanks for that. So I might be able to do those regex changes even within CT perhaps.
I guess I can’t really get away from having to dedicate a few days to reacquainting myself with CT’s features and a few more days of cleaning up the data for export.
What appeals to me about Obsidian is that even if it disappears, the underlying folders and files will be there untouched and no need to export anything.
Thanks again.
Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 8, 2025 at 05:38 PM
Have you checked the Internet Archive (archive.org) to see if the Connected Text forum was archived there?
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
Have you checked the Internet Archive (archive.org) to see if the
>Connected Text forum was archived there?
Thanks, unfortunately it didn’t work, I couldn’t log in.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Oct 9, 2025 at 02:42 PM
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.
Posted by Amontillado
Oct 10, 2025 at 05:41 PM
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.