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The note taking is such a crowded space that I wonder how did we get here? Is this a signal that there still is no clear winner or just that this space is easy to enter but difficult to find success ?
What I learned from visiting the site: It's an app that lets you take notes horizontally - apparently there's a claim that this is an advantage. I'm supposed to buy a subscription for more than Evernote costs and hand over all of my data, which may or may not be encrypted, to a random person on the internet. Sorry if this is harsh, but the website didn't make its case to me, and this is an extremely crowded space.
And, ugh, with Firefox running on Ubuntu, clicking the "Changelog" fires a prompt to download a "hotkeys.mp4". What?
So for (a super simplified) example if I want to have a daily note system, I'll just define (say) a JavaScript object called DailyNotes, and everyday I'll just append some lines to my code saying, in effect, add the key for today's date to the object DailyNotes and assigns that key an array and each time I have a thought or idea I just pushes ["thought", "…"] into it.
So all of my notes comprise a huge code project.
(My actual system isn't quite like that, I use a custom syntax + language server that serves my purpose better and faster (in particular, it makes it easier to write multiline notes without need of escaping and makes it easier to default to do the literate programming style of defaulting to text))
The nice thing about it is I get to piggyback on IDE features of vscode. All the "roam-like" features are available in VSCode and implemented better (think the "peak" feature, and the wiki link feature, which can easily be simulated by using function calls! (And you can project-rename a function name at a reference just like in Roam)
I've found the best note taking system that works for me is literally to store my notes in a full fledged programming language with built-in OOP support. So for (a super simplified) example if I want to have a daily note system, I'll just define (say) a JavaScript object called DailyNotes, and everyday I'll just append some lines to my code saying, in effect, add the key for today's date to the object DailyNotes and…
I've found the best note taking system that works for me is literally to store my notes in a full fledged programming language with built-in OOP support. So for (a super simplified) example if I want to have a daily note system, I'll just define (say) a JavaScript object called DailyNotes, and everyday I'll just append some lines to my code saying, in effect, add the key for today's date to the object DailyNotes and…
Why shouldn't I use Obsidian for free? Why should I subscribe to this software?
Given the incredible variety of note taking apps, I decided to just be happy with Obsidian and stop agonizing over non-essential features.
I think they are trying to combine the pages of a physical notebook with the endlessly long digital page. So just like pages in a notebook, you align your markdown documents next to eachother.
Also, if you scroll down and click the squares on the features page, you get taken to little animations that shows off each feature. They're pretty good. https://www.ummm.co/features
I've been using my CatWiki[1] for making notes since 2016 and find it quite easy to use. It stores notes as Markdown files on a local hard disk. [1]: https://github.com/cabalamat/catwiki
I’m working on Bangle[1] which is similar that saves notes locally in Markdown but provides a nice notion like UI. [1] https://bangle.io