Maybe try Muse?

Another great app to try: Obsidian “Canvas” feature

My Notion allegiance is being tested

Tbh Notion is getting more clumsy and laggy these, and the editor sucks

I definitely agree, I feel I’ve just become accustomed to the experience. Are you using Obsidian then for all your “second brain” tasks?

Yup, tried a few different tools before including Notion, Obsidian, Logseq, Heptabase and so far I’d say I’m most comfortable with Obsidian

I’m just curious what is wrong with mymind?

Do you use mymind? How do you like it?

Simply put, I love it. It just stays out of sight and then I can easily find whatever I want in it. I like how it uses ML to detect objects on images and I love that it is not social (:

That ML functionality is super impressive and so useful. Also the not social aspect is a huge huge plus. Thanks for sharing Dima!

A bit different, but I switched from mymind to raindrop.io and it’s the best subscription I have (there’s a free tier too i think).

I’ve heard about this one! Curious why did you choose to switch?

I ended up mostly using mymind as a glorified bookmark manager, so full text search and highlights suited my workflow a lot better. I can honestly say that raindrop is the best subscription I have!

Got it that’s cool thanks for sharing!

If you're happy just using a Mac app, I highly recommend eagle.cool.

Eagle - Organize all your reference images in one place

Unify your creative inspiration in one place. Store anything – inspiring images, design mockups, illustrations, screenshots and more.

eagle.cool

This looks really great. Thanks for recommending!

thankful you asked this q - i’ve just been getting by using Arc’s easel and folder ong system but it’s not optimal 🥹

I love these convos because it puts me on to so many cool tools I’ve never heard of. I want to try them all!! haha

You’re already testing it but wanted to add my vote for are.na.

+1 for are.na!

Thanks Ahmet and Francine!

Fabric.so has that option. You can grab screen selections - kind of like taking a screenshot but with a different keyboard shortcut

This is a new one I haven’t heard! Thanks for sharing! The personal search engine is absolutely key too, so excited to see more tools built around this idea.

I’ve been testing it and like it. Especially the collections, and the ability to share each collection as links.

How do these options work on a mobile xp? I'm using pinterest because with the mobile app, I can share anything (website, tweet) and save it on pinterest.

I need to play around with them more and see which is best optimized for mobile use because I face the same struggle. I love that use case for Pinterest I just don’t need the whole “explore” experience as it’s far too distracting for me

100%, I don't spend any time on Pinterest apart from when I want to save smth or quickly grab something I saved.

I recommend a MilaNote milanote.com I think that Arena and MyMind are absolutely different things. But MilaNote is true alternative.

Milanote - the tool for organizing creative projects

Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Add notes, images, links and files, organize them visually and share them with your team.

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Awesome! Thanks for sharing Sasha!

And maybe Freeform from Apple. I use it for visual collection and also for working with text.

I use walling.app you can dump everything or sort it directly into your walls. Been using it for years!

Wow this looks really cool! I love the simple design and looks to have a lot of flexibility. Thanks for sharing Emad this is a gem!

+1 on a screen area option for MM. Gatta assume they are on it.