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Tangent- New WYSIWYG Markdown/Wikilinks notes app with map view, sliding panels (Mac/Win)
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Posted by Dormouse
Mar 15, 2024 at 11:34 AM
I’ve been using Tangent consistently for at least a couple of years and stopped using Obsidian. You can use it on same folders as Obsidian vaults: they don’t clash. I used both for a while.
“How far it’s come” feels like an Obsidian, feature-led concept. Back then Obsidian had far more features than Tangent, and it has been adding them far faster, even without the plugins. I find Tangent better for focus, thinking and writing.
cicerosc wrote:
I saw Tangent mentioned today in another thread and that brought me back
>here as the only thread apparently devoted to Tangent.
>
>Anyone been using it and have comment on how far it has come over the
>last two years? I am mostly Obsidian but always on the lookout for
>something “lighter.”
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 18, 2024 at 09:09 AM
Yes, I’d have to agree
Posted by satis
Jun 9, 2025 at 06:41 PM
A milestone of sorts with v.0.9 released over the weekend.
https://mastodon.social/@tangentnotes/114642658023646284
Posted by Lucine
Jun 10, 2025 at 01:33 AM
Since this thread is bumped anyway, I’d just like to thank you for sharing this approach to using notes by keeping them locally but accessible via alternative notes. This, especially combined with your use of Tangent this way is such an interesting idea and I hadn’t thought this level of interoperability with modern tools is possible. Also your comment elsewhere that you use the same markdown files with Logseq too was enlightening. It keeps the data and representation layers so separate and you don’t have to rely on any software in the long run, you just need powerful search/info retrieval and temporary tools for whatever you want to do with the notes.
Dormouse wrote:
I’ve been using Tangent consistently for at least a couple of years and
>stopped using Obsidian. You can use it on same folders as Obsidian
>vaults: they don’t clash. I used both for a while.
>
>“How far it’s come” feels like an Obsidian, feature-led concept. Back
>then Obsidian had far more features than Tangent, and it has been adding
>them far faster, even without the plugins. I find Tangent better for
>focus, thinking and writing.
>
>cicerosc wrote:
>I saw Tangent mentioned today in another thread and that brought me back
>>here as the only thread apparently devoted to Tangent.
>>
>>Anyone been using it and have comment on how far it has come over the
>>last two years? I am mostly Obsidian but always on the lookout for
>>something “lighter.”