Tried just about all of these. Switched from Obsidian to Capacities. Absolutely loving it. Switched from Milanote to Lucidspark, and nothing beats Lucidspark for visual mapping of ideas. It's amazing.
Obsidian User here. Absolutely love it. But I don't think it's that easy to use, in fact the possibilities to make it more and more complex and tailored to your needs are endless,and that is great! But Needs some time to get into it.
I am definitely going to try some of these. I have been using Notion for the past few years but I am not the biggest fan of the UI and I’ve always found the mobile experience to be quite cumbersome, so looking for something that’s a bit snappier on mobile, unless Notion introduces more UI options and the UX on non-desktop devices improves
I think RemNote is the best of all these simplly bcoz it allows u to link individual bullet points rather than entire pages. It makes linking thoughts much berree
Hi, is there a note taking app which can also take handwritten inputs. And I am not talking about One Note. But the ones that can help me to build a second brain.
Strictly for Notion Users who has invested a lot of time into build their second brain in notion** I really don't understand how MEM is that much better than Notion. With all due respect, since you are an investor in MEM there maybe some confirmation bias to what you are saying. Even if MEM AI is better as of now there is no reason to believe that Notion cannot improve its AI capabilities. Moreover if we are using AI to search for things without recalling the path of a particular note then we maybe missing out on a great way of practising active recall.
In my opinion its usage of AI to search through this "unorganised" system is more similar to how we structure our actual brain, because we don't actually use folders, we use connections. In some way, however, I do agree in the sense that Mem itself is not objectively better than Notion, because at the end of the day, like you said, for some people it can help to memorise paths of notes and people have been used to folders for so long, for me however it just creates additional overhead. I'm a user of Logseq, but I'm definitely interested in how these two methods "folders" and "connections" approach AI in their own way.
@@totallynotvme Interesting, Tiago Forte has uploaded a video about this : ruclips.net/video/f3dDVtJ2sec/видео.html I guess the folder approach is the first approach and the connection approach is the second.
@@totallynotvme I also personally like notion more because I can integrate it with Images really well compared to other note taking apps. Visuals are always better than just text I feel.
@@mrt.1903 if that person is not on a path to building a second brain then alright. But if they are and if that person cannot dedicate 3 4 hours learning and exploring a note taking app then they will likely fail.
You own your data, is fast, has a graph view, very customizable, is calendar based, tags management is perfect and also the “object” type organization just makes it way more practical, actually can’t wait for them to publicly release the app for it
It's not offline first, so, what's the point? You really like don't be the owner of your data, don't have them offline, etc? I guess it's not even Open sourced. I really believed in it for a single really bad reason, I believed Capacities was the holy app about block tagging, but it's not, at least for me... I still searching for an Object based app that can allow to tag a single block. Capacities does that, but don't offer a proper view/readability in a database view of any tagged blocks. Anytype could have been Object based + block tagging + strong database view but last news show that they don't care about Block object tagging feature. So I guess I have to still in wanderland.
@@aynehancer5959Still almost all the apps in the video are online only, so the first point of saying capacities should be considered is still valid. Chill out
If I can't color a word or title in a note taking app, that ain't a note taking app. Most of them you mentioned here except Evernote and Notion, does not allow coloring the text.
Why? Why is the line that is drawn down Obsidian so ugly (01:42)?! Notion is also out of luck. In general, a good review, only for some reason roam and tana were not included in the list.
What application has “network” capabilities and can collaborate with numerous applications to generate a cohesive identity for brain mapping utilizing, to do list’s, brain maps, photos, documents, pdf, bookmarks reminders, AI etc..
@@gocu_saiajeans If an app doesn’t support OCR it’s immediately off the list of tools I’d ever consider for PKM / Second Brain. I had a subscription for Mymind for a few months but I wasn’t a huge fan. I switched to Walling for now but I may try it again.
Absolutely. I use Devonthink for documents and Craft for notes. I've also used Apple Notes and Notion for notes. But Craft is the best compromise of the two in my view.
One thing that is never covered because not many of uour audience will do this is qualitative research. That is an academic approach to handling written or visual material its the opposite of using quantitative approaches. One of the leading tools academics use is nvivo. Evernote notes can be imported into nvivo. We have to use nvivo because despite what people think AI cannot yet and is unlikely to replace hand coding of text for meaning. Apps at the moment dont understand cultural meaning and sarcasm for example
@@utubejuan thanks but if you read his book, David Allen's GTD is about getting the clutter of tracking all the stuff you have committed to out of your head so you can concentrate on what is in front of you at the moment so this "second brain" still sounds like a case of "what's old is new again"
I use reflect and it's awesome. Like obsidian but with offline usage and other features that make life so much easier. More expensive but worth it for me.
@@its_yellow crappy CEO sold the company he started to ruin, got his monies, and now the people who worked on this product and made it what it was are canned.
Shoutout to TheBrain users! One time payment available and local first. You own your data and get a beautiful mind map interactive dynamic unique organizational structure. Also search is great since you can search for multiple words inside the same note as opposed to Roam and Craft which search for words in the same block, making it hard to not say unusable.
I really just need an app that is windows/mac/ipad that makes writing enjoyable and formats very well so that i can push it into web platforms. easily (markdown is fine) i dont need minimal but something like obsidian is not a good answer spend more time tweaking than writing. Notion is horrible for writing say scripts and articles in my opinion due to the block editor really being crap. Craft is an option but I think there is an issue with inline images. One Note may be an answer but like word it is horrible to copy the text into something else. Upnote? Pulsar is awesome for just general notes, i live in text files and searching through large directories of tons of text files but this is not a writing solution.
@@nichlaswesterby5609 Yea the issue here is my big project is in the gaming industry so having a PC is my primary computer I am at, and while my MacBook is next to me and i have keyboard and mouse sharing set up for it its still not where my focus is most of the time.
@@StrategyInformer-sjgold There's a new kid on the block called Anytype. The guys have been at it since 2018 and it's open source + local storage. It supports all platforms and looks pretty slick. Give it a look and see if it blows your whistle.
I don't think you as a productive person as you're spending too much time on these productivity apps. Compete with me with all your fancy apps and I will beat you with just pen and paper.
00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - What is the Second Brain concept?
00:40 - How to Find the Best Productivity Tools?
00:55 - Who is Tiago Forte?
01:40 - Obsidian - toolfinder.co/go/obsidian
02:10 - Notion - toolfinder.co/go/notion
03:10 - Milanote - toolfinder.co/go/milanote
04:03 - Mem - toolfinder.co/go/mem
04:50 - Logseq - toolfinder.co/go/logseq
👀 Learn Logseq: www.logseqmastery.com/?sa=sa0040601163351fe57b3df6694acdc8250e0f3aed
05:04 - Reflect - toolfinder.co/go/reflect-notes
06:03 - Evernote - toolfinder.co/go/evernote
Tried just about all of these. Switched from Obsidian to Capacities. Absolutely loving it. Switched from Milanote to Lucidspark, and nothing beats Lucidspark for visual mapping of ideas. It's amazing.
Have you tried Miro?
Did you try heptabase too Brett? What do you think of?
Obsidian User here. Absolutely love it. But I don't think it's that easy to use, in fact the possibilities to make it more and more complex and tailored to your needs are endless,and that is great! But Needs some time to get into it.
Sticking with Roam Research. The only second brain I've tried that works so well.
I am definitely going to try some of these. I have been using Notion for the past few years but I am not the biggest fan of the UI and I’ve always found the mobile experience to be quite cumbersome, so looking for something that’s a bit snappier on mobile, unless Notion introduces more UI options and the UX on non-desktop devices improves
What about Anytype and Capacities?
Is it possible to use Second brain with ClickUp? A video about that would be great
Nice video but it woule be great if you highlight which ones are ios only, online only and ones that have a webapp
I think RemNote is the best of all these simplly bcoz it allows u to link individual bullet points rather than entire pages. It makes linking thoughts much berree
I got the lifetime learner pro plan, but I disagree. It's really great at making notes for space repetition and now PDFs. It still feels buggy.
So, like Logseq?
Hi, is there a note taking app which can also take handwritten inputs. And I am not talking about One Note. But the ones that can help me to build a second brain.
That's also something I'm looking for. Using my Ipad Mini a lot for handwritten notes.
Strictly for Notion Users who has invested a lot of time into build their second brain in notion**
I really don't understand how MEM is that much better than Notion. With all due respect, since you are an investor in MEM there maybe some confirmation bias to what you are saying. Even if MEM AI is better as of now there is no reason to believe that Notion cannot improve its AI capabilities. Moreover if we are using AI to search for things without recalling the path of a particular note then we maybe missing out on a great way of practising active recall.
In my opinion its usage of AI to search through this "unorganised" system is more similar to how we structure our actual brain, because we don't actually use folders, we use connections. In some way, however, I do agree in the sense that Mem itself is not objectively better than Notion, because at the end of the day, like you said, for some people it can help to memorise paths of notes and people have been used to folders for so long, for me however it just creates additional overhead. I'm a user of Logseq, but I'm definitely interested in how these two methods "folders" and "connections" approach AI in their own way.
@@totallynotvme Interesting, Tiago Forte has uploaded a video about this : ruclips.net/video/f3dDVtJ2sec/видео.html
I guess the folder approach is the first approach and the connection approach is the second.
@@totallynotvme I also personally like notion more because I can integrate it with Images really well compared to other note taking apps. Visuals are always better than just text I feel.
Just ask for a new user and newbie in the PKM department to use notion and MEM for 1h and you will understand.
Notion is just PAIN
@@mrt.1903 if that person is not on a path to building a second brain then alright. But if they are and if that person cannot dedicate 3 4 hours learning and exploring a note taking app then they will likely fail.
I really think Capacities might be all of these
You own your data, is fast, has a graph view, very customizable, is calendar based, tags management is perfect and also the “object” type organization just makes it way more practical, actually can’t wait for them to publicly release the app for it
It's not offline first, so, what's the point? You really like don't be the owner of your data, don't have them offline, etc? I guess it's not even Open sourced.
I really believed in it for a single really bad reason, I believed Capacities was the holy app about block tagging, but it's not, at least for me...
I still searching for an Object based app that can allow to tag a single block. Capacities does that, but don't offer a proper view/readability in a database view of any tagged blocks.
Anytype could have been Object based + block tagging + strong database view but last news show that they don't care about Block object tagging feature.
So I guess I have to still in wanderland.
@@aynehancer5959Still almost all the apps in the video are online only, so the first point of saying capacities should be considered is still valid. Chill out
@@valeriobuda7409 i just need collaboriation; and it pwns Notion
Can capacities be used offline?
If I can't color a word or title in a note taking app, that ain't a note taking app. Most of them you mentioned here except Evernote and Notion, does not allow coloring the text.
Why? Why is the line that is drawn down Obsidian so ugly (01:42)?! Notion is also out of luck. In general, a good review, only for some reason roam and tana were not included in the list.
What application has “network” capabilities and can collaborate with numerous applications to generate a cohesive identity for brain mapping utilizing, to do list’s, brain maps, photos, documents, pdf, bookmarks reminders, AI etc..
Did Roam forget to pay or why is it no longer considered?
Does Milanote support OCR?
Mymind app is much better
@@gocu_saiajeans If an app doesn’t support OCR it’s immediately off the list of tools I’d ever consider for PKM / Second Brain.
I had a subscription for Mymind for a few months but I wasn’t a huge fan. I switched to Walling for now but I may try it again.
Apple notes + ticktick (only for future things) + motion 💯
Devonthink and Craft are good apps to add to this list.
I think Anytype as well
Absolutely. I use Devonthink for documents and Craft for notes.
I've also used Apple Notes and Notion for notes. But Craft is the best compromise of the two in my view.
@@DboyHamburg and therefore capacities LOL
Thoughts on Heptabase?
*Please timestamp your videos*
please thumb down along side negative comment. Punish people that waste your time.
@@aynehancer5959don’t be mean, if you don’t like how he does his videos then go somewhere else, instead of hating
What's your opinion on Scrintal?
Really interesting, set to review in a few weeks.
What about Upnote?
Personally enjoy RemNote maybe not as polished as others but suits my note taking style
One thing that is never covered because not many of uour audience will do this is qualitative research. That is an academic approach to handling written or visual material its the opposite of using quantitative approaches. One of the leading tools academics use is nvivo. Evernote notes can be imported into nvivo. We have to use nvivo because despite what people think AI cannot yet and is unlikely to replace hand coding of text for meaning. Apps at the moment dont understand cultural meaning and sarcasm for example
Sorry for typos can't see well
But the guy who created zettelkasten created 2nd brain…
Mymind is definitely like a child of Pinterest and Google keep
I'm surprised you didn't consider Taskade!
How is the "second brain" different than David Allen's external brain?
David Allen had an external brain for task management, a secund brain is often touted as a creativity device for ideas.
@@utubejuan thanks but if you read his book, David Allen's GTD is about getting the clutter of tracking all the stuff you have committed to out of your head so you can concentrate on what is in front of you at the moment so this "second brain" still sounds like a case of "what's old is new again"
Tana beat all of them!)
I use reflect and it's awesome. Like obsidian but with offline usage and other features that make life so much easier. More expensive but worth it for me.
I just looked this up, I’m very interested. Give me a pitch as to why you like it so much?
obsidian is offline first
I found it super beta... can't event select a bullet point easily
@@hugoschmitt1772superbeta? What? Are you kidding?
@@hugoschmitt1772are you perhaps mistaking it with something else? Reflect is actually super solid.
Timestamps
Christ... Evernote again????
Can’t support Evernote anymore after what the new parent company has done recently.
@@its_yellow the new foreign owners laid off most of the US staff.
@@its_yellow crappy CEO sold the company he started to ruin, got his monies, and now the people who worked on this product and made it what it was are canned.
Dead since v10. Screwed over customers, bugs, high price... what a pity. It was once an amazing product!
@@charlesbonfante9188 and now they screwed over their employees.
Really, not even a word about TheBrain?
Shoutout to TheBrain users! One time payment available and local first. You own your data and get a beautiful mind map interactive dynamic unique organizational structure. Also search is great since you can search for multiple words inside the same note as opposed to Roam and Craft which search for words in the same block, making it hard to not say unusable.
anytype.
No mention of roam, a tool on par if not better than all you mentioned.
This guys hatred for roam is comical.
I really just need an app that is windows/mac/ipad that makes writing enjoyable and formats very well so that i can push it into web platforms. easily (markdown is fine) i dont need minimal but something like obsidian is not a good answer spend more time tweaking than writing. Notion is horrible for writing say scripts and articles in my opinion due to the block editor really being crap. Craft is an option but I think there is an issue with inline images. One Note may be an answer but like word it is horrible to copy the text into something else. Upnote? Pulsar is awesome for just general notes, i live in text files and searching through large directories of tons of text files but this is not a writing solution.
@@its_yellow Ulysses is Apple Ecosystem only
@@its_yellow Yea its not on windows and no web based version ;( same with Bear. Scriviner does but its overkill for article writing.
@@nichlaswesterby5609 Yea the issue here is my big project is in the gaming industry so having a PC is my primary computer I am at, and while my MacBook is next to me and i have keyboard and mouse sharing set up for it its still not where my focus is most of the time.
Maybe Joplin
@@StrategyInformer-sjgold There's a new kid on the block called Anytype. The guys have been at it since 2018 and it's open source + local storage. It supports all platforms and looks pretty slick. Give it a look and see if it blows your whistle.
Evernote is dead
YAS milanote 👏👏
Is this the last RUclips channel that still doesn't do timestamps?
We do, we just forget to add them. Sorry Brian. Francesco.
Evernote? Alright, sure , Evernote is better than obsidian!!
Lol
I don't think you as a productive person as you're spending too much time on these productivity apps. Compete with me with all your fancy apps and I will beat you with just pen and paper.