MadaboutDana
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'I Deleted My Second Brain'
7/23/2025
Totally! I’ve read Tiago Forte’s book on your second brain, I’ve experimented with Zettelkasten, and no, they’re all associated with such an enormous organisational overhead.
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Oh wow, that sounds seriously sophisticated! I’ve installed and then uninstalled Dataview several times – it’s amazing, but also complex. Personally, I’ve (so far) had a g...
Oh, and Octarine can also be used with e.g. Obsidian vaults (and any other markdown-based repository of your choice: Tangent, LogSeq, Typora, etc.). It has a very good search engine.
As most of you probably know, I now use Obsidian as my base PKM, and have gradually removed all other apps and subscriptions, persuaded by the sheer power and flexibility of Obsidian and its plugins.
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Gingko
7/4/2025
I’m not sure the developer has moved to Obsidian, but someone has certainly replicated the Gingko concept in Obsidian – very well, in fact. The plugin concerned is called Lineage, and...
I like Tangent, but its desktop footprint is enormous!
Since Obsidian started using the Andy Matuschak tab-stacking approach, I've stopped using Tangent, although I take the occasional look just to ...
Yep, agreed – and that's why I now use Obsidian exclusively for all my PKM needs. Everything saved out in text (markdown), excellent tools for web clipping (Obsidian's own, plus plugins like e.g...
Blackwell Idealist
5/29/2025
There is a rather good MacOS equivalent which has, unfortunately, not done well enough for ongoing development: Noteship, developed by the amiable Rico Gundermann. It’s more like a very advanced...
Blackwell Idealist
5/28/2025
The Idealist clone: Quercus, of course (still available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qercus/)
Blackwell Idealist
5/28/2025
Interesting question. I’ve found – and this is really going to irritate some of you! – that one can create something very similar using Obsidian's properties and templates features p...
Obsidian web clipper just released
5/28/2025
Just started using, and have been very impressed by, an Obsidian plugin with the unlikely name of “Various Complements”.
It acts as a kind of mixed spellchecker and reference finder ̵...
Sorry, Stephen – yes, just to confirm that like Paul, I still use it (albeit to a limited extent) and it runs fine on the latest version of OS 15.4.1
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Thanks, Paul.
The direct Mac equivalent is MacJournal, which is desktop-only, but free and very powerful.
The features and look are very similar!
Directory of infinite canvas tools
5/8/2025
There’s a nice plugin for Obsidian which turns a “canvas” into an outline: Canvas2Document. It turns a complete canvas of linked notes into a single long-form document integrating al...
Noteplan is a spectacular piece of software, and I used to love it. But then Eduard increased the price to a level which I simply couldn’t accept, hence my switch to Obsidian (Sync costs less th...
Personally, I’ve now pivoted to and am very happy with Obsidian, over multiple platforms, synced using their own service (Obsidian Sync).
Thing is, I can configure Obsidian in any one of hundre...
Directory of infinite canvas tools
5/5/2025
They’ve also forgotten Apple Numbers and Growly Notes.
You might want to add Manuskript to the list, too: http://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/
Oh, and of course I’m forgetting an obvious candidate: TextMaker by Softmaker. It doesn’t have timelines (although I believe you could create one using the built-in tools), but it has exce...
Ah, you and I replied more or less simultaneously, Frank ;-)
Franz Grieser wrote:
Hi Graham.
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>I am not sure what you need the timeline feature for.
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>There are several novel writing apps with a ti...
Oh, and actually, the successor to Writer’s Cafe, Jutoh, does pretty much everything you’ve described: https://www.jutoh.com/features.html
Well, it’s a little old now, but still a good piece of software: Anthemion’s Writer’s Cafe is available for free, and does some of what you want (although it’s not really a bib...
Heh heh, I’m amused by your question, because I’m enjoying Obsidian for precisely this reason – I’m finding ways to produce the perfect PKM based on careful selection of m...
Collaboration Frustration
3/24/2025
I’ve just finally succumbed to CRIMPtation and subscribed to Obsidian Sync (the lower tier), and I must say, it makes a big difference. No more complex attempts at cross-syncing from GitHub (Obs...
Collaboration Frustration
3/22/2025
Ah yes, I see. Well, there’s always Obsidian ;-)