@paulopinto I have it installed but haven’t yet done anything with it. In what sort of ways are you using it?
@paulopinto Nice! I’ve been using Zettlr for a while now (mostly zettelkasten notes though for a while I was using it for a daily log) after moving away from physical index cards (LOL). Would be interested to hear how your second brain progresses!
@herself @paulopinto I was using The Archive for a long while, having come from nvAlt, dipping my toe into Zettlr from time to time. I tried Obsidian, but it didn’t really work for me, I think because it didn’t feel like a true Mac app to me. I’m now on the beta of nvUltra and enjoying it.
@paulopinto awesome! I too have Devon think but it feels quite unwieldy now. The most exciting thing about those sorts of databases are when they give you weird combinations of results, but I think you need to have so much data in them before they start to surprise you.
@crossingthethreshold @paulopinto nvUltra is new to me! I loved nvAlt, went through all the problems with simple note, and wound up abandoning that. Even briefly flirted with some emacs nvAlt clones but then it wound up being all too much…
@herself @paulopinto Here is nvUltra. It is being developed by Brett Terpstra (nvAlt) and Fletcher Penney (MultiMarkdown). It has been in beta for a long time, but is almost ready to go live. An email to contact@nvultra.com got me an invite to join the beta. Perhaps try that if you are interested. Simplenotes intergration is not supported in nvUltra.
@paulopinto @herself I had not heard of Gemini or Spacemacs for that matter. This sounds interesting, though I don’t know if I can give myself the time for the learning curve? 🤔
@peterimoore @herself @paulopinto the nvUltra discussions forums promise an iOS version. No timeline yet.
@paulopinto That sounds really interesting (DT & Obsidian)… but I suspect my interest is greater than my prospective use :D
@paulopinto I played with Craft a few weeks back and couldn’t get into it. Your post made me return to both the Mac OS and iOS versions. It still does not work for me. I just work best wish simple text files and visible Markdown syntax. Nothing against Craft, just what works best for me.
One other app I have used has been Bear. I liked it, I still do. My move to nvUltra has been because I want to move away from my notes being kept in a data base, and move them to plain text. I have been considering another look at Obsidian because I am interested in back linking and the changing of file names. I have tried Zettelkasten methods, but while I can see their usefulness, it feels like another layer of complexity to me.
@gpittman I hear you about the rollout of nvUltra. I applied for the beta I think back in 2019 - time has disappeared down a vortex due to the pandemic, so I cannot be sure when…just a long time ago! I never heard back, gave up waiting for the first release and went elsewhere. Wanting to get back to text files made me re-apply and I got in this time, a couple of months ago.
To my untutored eye, nvUltra feels ready for prime time to me. I can’t speak to why of the further delays. I have asked myself if I want to use an app that seems to be taking so long to launch. What does that look like going forward? It feels like a good, solid product - in essence nvAlt wrapped up with MultiMarkdown Editor.
Do you use Obsidian?
@peterimoore @gpittman What I say here, I consider just a personal take on the structure of apps like Drafts, Bear & Ulysses - how they fit (or don’t) into my workflow.
Drafts - I see that as a text in/text out app and so the database does not bother me. It is a place where I work on text for another destination.
Bear & Ulysses - I like their functionality. I have used both of them for a while and they both offer easy ways to export documents to plain text files. I just find that if I need a lot of files quickly, there is another layer of exporting and importing to do. Some people will not be bothered by that. I am keeping an eye on Bear which is working on a new editor and a web based version.
For now I have decided to move to straight text based.