I truly learn so much from your videos and thought process. Thanks for creating great stuff.

Best aspects of both I think you've highlighted. Common tags for continuity is useful. Always enlightening you are. Thanks again.

Nice video, with an excellent explanation of the differences between Obsidian and Scrintal. I have been a fan of Scrintal since its early inception, but two things have held me back from committing to it: 1. They need to add a feature that allows you to export a whole board as one concatenated document. This may sound difficult, but Milanote has this feature, and it is huge. 2. They need to add the ability to label the links between cards. Obsidian's Canvas has this. So does Heptabase and Milanote. If Scrintal gets those two features, it will rule the world (no extra cost for the hyperbole).

Morgan, excellent video about the differences between starting visually or textually. I too use both Obsidian and Scrintal.

Beautifully done!

Congrats on your sponsorship!! Great video, too 🌻 would you ever consider making more vlogs? I love your approach to academia and writing and it’s cool to see what your days looks like that lead to your great insights and productivity. Also your writing sessions always reinspire me to get work done ❤

Thanks for the info! Have to looked into Heptabase yet? Similar to Scrintal, but with the supertag aspects that Tana has.

You have an amazing book collection

This is from a convo that I had with Google Gemini: * **Mind Maps and Effective Note-Taking** * **Benefits of Mind Maps:** You're right, mind maps can be a powerful tool for visualizing relationships between complex ideas. * **Challenge of Note Length:** You raise a valid point about average-length notes being unsuitable for mind map nodes. Lengthy text can obscure connections and defeat the purpose of visualization. * **Effective Node Content:** Here are some alternatives to consider: * **Keywords:** Using single words or short phrases can capture key ideas without cluttering the mind map. * **Icons/Images:** Incorporating icons or images can visually represent concepts, enhancing memory and recall. * **Hyperlinks:** For digital mind maps, you can use hyperlinks to link nodes to external resources for more detailed information. * **Maintaining Clarity:** * **Focus on Hierarchy:** Structure your mind map with a clear hierarchy, starting with the central topic and branching out with subtopics and supporting details. * **Color Coding:** Use color strategically to differentiate between different categories of information. * **Conclusion:** By using concise node content and focusing on visual clarity, mind maps can still be an effective tool for mastering complex topics, even when average length notes are used for external reference.

Thanks so much for the video! I've seen a few of your videos, and I really appreciate how you relate your academic life to these note-taking apps. I especially appreciate what you say here about Obsidian's knowledge map. It's helpful to draw interrelations, but the arbitrary pattern drawn each time you access it works against my own visual orientation. Like I would rather have a consistent placement for the items, as it might help me build my own conceputalizations. There are two open questions I have about mind-mapping. One, for personal knowledge, how do you negotiate larger and larger maps. Sometimes the distance between topics I want to show a relation between doesn't help me as much as I'd like. Second, for teaching purposes, do you use Scrintal for on-the-spot kinds of visualizations with students. I've been using Miro as a whiteboard. I wonder, though, if Scrintal might prove suitable. Thanks again for your perspective on Scrintal!

ooh, I love the idea of using them for different things. I like the idea of using scrintal for my creative endeavors and obsidian for my knowledge management

Pretty neat. It's like Obsidian + Scrindal.

as always very nice video , thanks for sharing

Hi Morgan! Thanks so much for making this video. I'm thinking about getting Scrintal and I just wanted to know if it does embedded links like "#log/journal" and whether it makes separate boards for the groups in the "#log" tag or if it just makes one big board. Thanks!

Thank you so much, Morgan: can you print or export graphs on Obsidian? Thank you.

Great video, Morgan, thank you so much! So, would your workflow be: using Obsidian to capture and process information, following the Zettlekasten method. Only when you identify a specific project within that process in Obsidian, you go to Scrintal, convert the involved notes to the card format in Scrintal, and work on the infinite canvas until you have a final product. Is that correct? If so, how do you handle the new cards created in Scrintal within that process? Do you manually bring them back to Obsidian?

Fantastic vid, thank you! Though I’d be interested to know how you’d compare Scrintal with Lattics…?

Greetings from México!!

FYI, can't you designate folders to be ignored from the search feature? Hence, you could store drafts in Obsidian without it messing you up? I'm just learning but I thought I saw this somewhere...

Nice distinguisher between 'two' canvases... Just wished outlining within a project file in Obsidian was just as easy...

Hi Morgan. Can you share how you share notes between Obsidian and Scrintal? Is it just import/export? I would like to use Scrintal for initially brainstorming and creating related cards, but want to store them in my local vault where my PKM is in Obsidian.

Scrintal is way behind Obsidian+plugins, not worth getting now