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

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.

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.

@The.BlackJackal

11 ай бұрын

Have you tried Miro?

@ARNBNDL

10 ай бұрын

Did you try heptabase too Brett? What do you think of?

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

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.

What about Anytype and Capacities?

Is it possible to use Second brain with ClickUp? A video about that would be great

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

@riverjustice

11 ай бұрын

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.

Nice video but it woule be great if you highlight which ones are ios only, online only and ones that have a webapp

I really think Capacities might be all of these

@valeriobuda7409

Жыл бұрын

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

@aynehancer5959

Жыл бұрын

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.

@mrt.1903

Жыл бұрын

​@@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

@visi7891

Жыл бұрын

@@valeriobuda7409 i just need collaboriation; and it pwns Notion

@user-mc4um3mo1l

Жыл бұрын

Can capacities be used offline?

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..

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.

@totallynotvme

Жыл бұрын

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.

@adityabhat7104

Жыл бұрын

@@totallynotvme Interesting, Tiago Forte has uploaded a video about this : kzread.info/dash/bejne/mGeYpritepXZlcY.html I guess the folder approach is the first approach and the connection approach is the second.

@adityabhat7104

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@adityabhat7104

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Personally enjoy RemNote maybe not as polished as others but suits my note taking style

Apple notes + ticktick (only for future things) + motion 💯

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.

Did Roam forget to pay or why is it no longer considered?

Thoughts on Heptabase?

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.

Devonthink and Craft are good apps to add to this list.

@DboyHamburg

Жыл бұрын

I think Anytype as well

@christophlorcks2022

Жыл бұрын

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.

@visi7891

Жыл бұрын

@@DboyHamburg and therefore capacities LOL

Does Milanote support OCR?

@mininusequeci

11 ай бұрын

Mymind app is much better

@The.BlackJackal

11 ай бұрын

@@mininusequeci 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.

I'm surprised you didn't consider Taskade!

Mymind is definitely like a child of Pinterest and Google keep

What's your opinion on Scrintal?

@keepproductive

8 ай бұрын

Really interesting, set to review in a few weeks.

YAS milanote 👏👏

What about Upnote?

Tana beat all of them!)

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

@manymoms920

11 ай бұрын

Sorry for typos can't see well

How is the "second brain" different than David Allen's external brain?

@utubejuan

10 ай бұрын

David Allen had an external brain for task management, a secund brain is often touted as a creativity device for ideas.

@billmurphy893

10 ай бұрын

@@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.

@The.BlackJackal

11 ай бұрын

I just looked this up, I’m very interested. Give me a pitch as to why you like it so much?

@markandrei4278

11 ай бұрын

obsidian is offline first

@hugoschmitt1772

11 ай бұрын

I found it super beta... can't event select a bullet point easily

@nenewapete

9 ай бұрын

@@hugoschmitt1772superbeta? What? Are you kidding?

anytype.

But the guy who created zettelkasten created 2nd brain…

*Please timestamp your videos*

@aynehancer5959

Жыл бұрын

please thumb down along side negative comment. Punish people that waste your time.

@user-ng8gm9pb4v

8 ай бұрын

@@aynehancer5959don’t be mean, if you don’t like how he does his videos then go somewhere else, instead of hating

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

Жыл бұрын

@@its_yellow Ulysses is Apple Ecosystem only

@StrategyInformer-sjgold

11 ай бұрын

@@its_yellow Yea its not on windows and no web based version ;( same with Bear. Scriviner does but its overkill for article writing.

@StrategyInformer-sjgold

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@mininusequeci

11 ай бұрын

Maybe Joplin

@nichlaswesterby5609

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

Really, not even a word about TheBrain?

@AndresIbanezVasquez

11 ай бұрын

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.

Timestamps

Can’t support Evernote anymore after what the new parent company has done recently.

@phinsxiii

11 ай бұрын

@@its_yellow the new foreign owners laid off most of the US staff.

@phinsxiii

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@charlesbonfante9188

11 ай бұрын

Dead since v10. Screwed over customers, bugs, high price... what a pity. It was once an amazing product!

@phinsxiii

11 ай бұрын

@@charlesbonfante9188 and now they screwed over their employees.

Evernote? Alright, sure , Evernote is better than obsidian!!

@ARNBNDL

10 ай бұрын

Lol

Christ... Evernote again????

Is this the last KZread channel that still doesn't do timestamps?

@keepproductive

11 ай бұрын

We do, we just forget to add them. Sorry Brian. Francesco.

No mention of roam, a tool on par if not better than all you mentioned. This guys hatred for roam is comical.

Evernote is dead

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.