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An unlimited canvas where you can put all sorts of data types such as text, formatted text, handwritten notes, pictures, pdf printouts, tables, lists, links, vi
by iammjm 4y ago
An unlimited canvas where you can put all sorts of data types such as text, formatted text, handwritten notes, pictures, pdf printouts, tables, lists, links, videos; synced on all of your devices; accessible anywhere, with real-time collaboration for multiple users... truly terrible stuff
- paule89 4y agoTerrible is the following: Syncing performance. It either doesn't or far too late. Although the blank canvas is great, if you want to just add something onto my notes i have to select a specific space instead of just appending at the end. But yes all that supported stuff is great, but man those things at the top. Dealbreakers.
- dotancohen 4y ago"Unlimited" in this sense sounds to me like "Untyped", you can invoke it with unlimited datatypes! That might be nice for read-only notes, but for notes that I'm going to read sometime down the line, I need structure. Org-mode is great that it enables both structure and free form. And once one gets in the habit of enforcing on himself structure, his notes become clearer to himself months or years down the line when he rereads them.
- slightwinder 4y agoStructure is where structure was made. You can easily make a mess in org-mode/markdown too. Structure does not come from the tool in that space.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoVery true. I have been helping others with the philosophy of managing, linking, and thinking in their own ways instead of always hoping that a tool being the solution. Once you are clear with the general idea of how things are, any appropriate tool should be enough or good enough that you are not lost when the tool is taken away. For instance, I have been sent many a Mindmaps for the sake of the name exported from tools but just branches of terms which would have been better off as a list. Recently, I have been teaching my daughter the idea and the art of taking notes. She is allowed to use any tools she like to try out. I have so far told her about Obsidian, VSCode, and Sublime Text. Of course, Apple Notes is there too.
- dotancohen 4y agoHow old is she? I've been considering teaching my 15 year old org-mode.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoShe is 13.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoSideline observer of Org-Mode, and like with TaskWarrior, they're amazing to use on a computer, but whilst there's been some development in the space of using it on phones, has anybody nailed it yet? Been a while since I last looked. My big gripe is that most of my task management and notes are done via my phone or tablet like a clipboard, and management of plaintext on these kinds of devices tends to suck versus the UX of say Todoist with widgets to display tasks on a launcher. But the likes of Todoist are appalling feature-wise. What I really want is the concept of preceding and blocked tasks, and to only be able to surface currently actionable tasks. AFAIK, TaskWarrior can do this, and IIRC, similar can be done with Org-Mode with TODO dependencies.
- Torwald 4y agohttps://beorg.app https://beorg.app
- hammyhavoc 4y agoUnfortunately, I'm an Android user, but this does look fantastic.
- dotancohen 4y agohttp://www.orgzly.com/ http://www.orgzly.com/