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“Obsidian is probably one of the best note-taking apps out there, but it’s not open-source, which is fine, there are perfectly good reasons for that. But a part of the Obsidian user base has always […]
Both AFFiNE and Joplin Notes are intended for creating and editing notes, with a view to building up your searchable personal knowledge base. My video does an in-depth dive comparison between AFFiNE and Joplin Notes […]
A good reminder again about the future-proofed nature of Markdown format notes. They are essentially plain text and will be read my many apps well into the future. Also true that Markdown’s “shortcuts” for headings, […]
Quickly create a flowchart, mindmap, or Gantt chart without once touching your mouse. Open source means it is not going to suddenly disappear tomorrow, it can be broadly supported across different platforms and Markdown editors, […]
I had not tried Omnisearch, but apart from that and Advanced Tables, the suggested ones are not really “my best ones”. But the linked article does again highlight one of Obsidian’s most powerful features – […]
This app has a very similar look and feel to it as Obsidian, and also works in Markdown format. And although Obsidian has a kitchen sink full of community plugins, this app is a lot […]
Apple Notes are only really usable inside Apple Notes. If you are regularly working across other operating systems, like I do, this can actually be inconvenient (Steve expects you to only work inside the Apple […]
You can use it to easily collaborate on notes, graphs and even presentations in real-time. All you need to do is to share your note-link to your co-workers, and they’re ready to go. It is […]
Obsidian is a free (non-commercial use), not open source, text editor and works with open standard Markdown formatting on plain text files. Apart from quite advanced editing and UI options, I find Obsidian attractive because […]
![A split screen view showing on the right a flowchart that starts out with a block saying Brainstrom article, which then points to a small block saying send pitch. On the left side is seen the plain text code that creates this chart. It shows a line A[Brainstorm article] -->|send pitch| etc and continues on.](https://gadgeteer.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/mermaid-400x225.webp "Mermaid is an open source tool that can be used to create such charts using Markdown plaintext 4")
