RESEARCH: Discover existing products

[doridori]

• https://www.thebrain.com

  • Really expensive, looks good but not for mass use due to price, maybe server side use only allows use of site?
  • Has mobile apps (low ratings, poor UI)
  • site has good anims for multilinked mindmaps

• https://roamresearch.com/

  • Notebook style, looks like html from a glance

• org-roam https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam

  • 3rd party FOSS version of the above

• graph commons

  • Pricy (I think)

• bear https://bear.app/

  • apple only
  • markdown
  • paid syncing

• Obsidian https://obsidian.md/

  • closed src
  • desktop only
  • syncing done by user via google / dropbox etc
  • markdown file based so users own their own stuff
  • interesting thread of views about Obsidian and all its competitors! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598

• Joplin https://joplinapp.org/

  • FOSS
  • no graph
  • mobile apps
  • markdown

• Quiver https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki

  • apple only it seems
  • markdown and latex support
  • renders latex flowcharts and sequence diagrams inline https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Getting-Started (JS it seems)

• Trilium

  • Screenshots https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Screenshot-tour

• vnote https://tamlok.github.io/vnote/en_us/

• https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise

  • build on top of topic maps https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/aa480048(v=msdn.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

• https://tiddlywiki.com/

• Memex https://getmemex.com/

  • mostly fancy bookmarks

• https://orgpad.com/

  • Seems closest to a graph mindmeister

• Some products seem to be able to share and publish stuff online Add stuff from https://pragmaticlead.com/posts/unlock-your-productivity-by-taling-better-notes-zettlekasten