As a follow up, I’ve started really enjoying using Craft. It’s got the speed of Apple Notes with some of the backlinking features of Obsidian without feeling like it’s held together with duct tape. AI integration is also nice, though I wish I could use it to search within my docs

I'm using Craft — it has some strange idiosyncrasies and its table support mostly sucks, but it makes working with text feel like you're using an app — and once you get the hang of it, it can be quite powerful.

All of those are excellent points. I worry about feature bloat and it feeling more geared to teams, and I can sort of see tags working better for the way I work. But being able to use Assistant as a thought starter and immediately send it to Things or Bear has kept it in my dock.

Bear's tags are much better, especially for personal knowledge management.

Primarily Notion, but with 🐻 Bear 2 just released, I’m trying it out again.

I am as well. It’s lightweight enough to replace Notes and I’m really enjoying the tagging/nested tagging system

Yeah it’s growing on me again. I’ve also found that for quick saves, I’ve been using Raycast quick notes.

Yes same 👀

Oh boy…

(I'm on some plain text minimalism sh*t rn tho, so Edit on mobile and Plain Text Editor on desktop)

Can you point me to Edit? Having trouble finding it by search :)

Yeah I honestly don’t remember how I found myself, maybe on are.na — apps.apple.com/app/id12317447…

‎Edit: a quick draft scratchpad

‎Edit is a super fast scratchpad for your thoughts, drafts, and notes. Think of it as a single sheet of paper, not a notebook. There's no document storage, because whatever you leave in Edit will be there when you get back. Once you're done writing, you can send or save your text to anywhere in iOS v…

apps.apple.com

It’s like a pretty version of Drafts 😂

yeah they have different visions. I love the brutal simplicity of Edit.

Yep! Edit is cut so sharp you can almost cut your finger on it and I love it

Notes for most things using the PARA Method for organization. Notion when needed for formatting, collaboration and some other useful features. Really hope someone uses AI in a meaningful way for the notes / knowledge-base / personal wiki area.

Really just want to be able to feed my notes into a privacy-focused AI and have it find what I need instead of having to dig around or try to remember what note a particular item was in

100% there’s so many permutations to cover but done the right way it could be very powerful with limited user maintenance. Even as a 1.0, prompting to collate notes in a specific order “Collate all design related content into a board view sorted by different themes”

I use Apple Notes. I bounced around numerous apps until I realized I was not gaining anything.

I finally gave up on Obsidian for the third time.

That makes two of us 😂

Tana / Tana Capture for daily log. Notion for docs, files and specific sharing capabilities. Apple Notes for personal random notes.

I’ve been using Tana as well but I don’t love not having access to all my notes on iOS, and I’m not sure my brain works in an “outliner” way. I love the supertags though.

Same. Tana Capture isn’t enough. Hopefully they have plans for an actual mobile app for it :< For now I’ll wait

Craft

This is what prompted my question. It seems like it’s a more native application of the Obsidian concepts that I like, but I’m wary of how “team-oriented” it seems. The integration with Things and the AI features definitely got me interested.

Was using Reflect but coming back to Apple Notes mainly due to shortest time-to-capture (from picking up the phone).

That, to me, is why nothing else is sticking right now. It’s just too easy!

spaceswriting.com/

For more structured projects: cloverapp.com/

Clover | Your daily workspace

Notes, Tasks, Whiteboards and a Daily Planner in a streamlined workflow

cloverapp.com

Notes.

Tasktxt.com (my app)

Apple Notes. The constraints keep me from turning a note into a composition

Apple Notes daily. Once in a while I use Craft but only because it is available in my Setapp subscription.

Craft, Bear, Nova. 😅

I keep finding myself coming back to Apple Notes

Apple Notes, Milanote and Craft

Obsidian-Lazy : PKM, Apple notes for quick notes, Notion for databases & bookmark, and Noto for to-do list only. A lot, I know. Still trying to simplify everything and only use 2-3 apps maximum.

I’m still using Obsidian. Can I be convinced to try something else? I’m pretty happy with it.