Tangent
https://www.tangentnotes.com/ One of the note-taking apps I’m currently using: 202204102217
Things I like about it:
- Navigation history — both thread view and map view are a joy to use.
- Cards view for viewing all the files in a specific folder. This could work super well for something like daily notes.
- I really like the red link view when it can’t find a note. This is also present in Nota 202207051532. The perfect counterpart to this would be some view that collates all of your orphan notes, and makes sure that you fill them out at some point. I’m kind of doing this in The Archive with my
# inboxnotes, but there’s a little more friction while doing so. - The focus mode is great.
- There’s some support for templates — there’s these things called “creation rules”, which automatically create/open notes in specific folders with certain titles. However, you can’t (at the moment) control anything about the content of these notes, which makes this very difficult to use. This does seem like the kind of thing that could be fixed pretty easily. Also, these naming rules in combination with Alfred snippets would basically provide a comprehensive solution for templates.
- It has header links and embedded links, which are both great.
- It has the same good linking principles as Nota 202207051532 — just wrapping a selection with double brackets makes it a wiki-note, which is much easier than my The Archive system.
Things I don’t like about it:
- No tag support
- No way of searching notes. This is a major red flag.
- Both of these two features are in active development.
- Not a native app, and doesn’t have a URL scheme
- I’m going to have to modify my zettel notes to make them fit the wikilinks scheme of this app. To be fair, this is the same wikilinks schema that Obsidian, Nota 202207051532, and a few other apps use, so it wouldn’t be the end of the world if I had to switch my note-taking app to this. In fact, this is more of a downside of The Archive, as I’ve noted here 202207051535.
- There isn’t a way of navigating up/down through your list of notes using a keyboard shortcut.
[Aside: if I had some way of making a template for things I like / things I don’t like about note-taking apps, that would be awesome. I could easily do this with apps that enable a schema for notes 202207051412]).
Created from: The Archive vs. Nota 202207051535
uid: 202207051621 tags: #notetaking