curious to know what you will choose

FreeMind ?

Perhaps I can chip in. Coming from Evernote as a long time user (and now looking at some new alternatives) these "new" note taking apps (also called PKM apps) offer some innovative (altough some people might not find them useful) functionalities. I can only speak for Obsidian and Heptabase which are the ones that I have tested. Obsidian offers local storage which a lot of people understand as safety, since your data is not on the cloud but on your own PC, and it also offers backlinking functionalities where you can "connect" notes. You can also see a graph where you can see like a brain-like structure of all your thoughts. Apparently the "trend" now a days is for networking-thinking where people feel the need to connect thoughts and build a second brain in such a way that if you are writting a note, you can become aware that there is another note which is related and which might help you out in writting this new note. I see the value in this, but I think it is terribly hyped and overestimated, and people are wasting too much time on the planning and the structure and less on the making and the action (my case in point). Heptabase takes things a bit further in terms of innovation. For starters there are no folders to organize your notes (just like Roam Research, Reflect and many of the new network-thinking folder-less structure apps which are arising), all your notes (which they call cards) live in a card library. You can however "embedd" those notes/cards in multiple "whiteboards" (which could be projects, life areas etc) so you can access them from different places without actually having to search for them or drag them around. Also it has a clear mindmapping design, which I am still not sure how I feel about. Comparing these to "standard" note-taking apps like Evernote (which has now added backlinks, and even AI search, which is a fancy way of saying that you can ask the app a question and it will search inside your notes for the answer, not as smart as a full-out AI like the one in Notion AI, TheBrain, Craft etc. but still nice and different from the traditional search), the traditional note taking apps still rely on folders and use a basic "dumping" methdology where you capture lots of notes and organize them in folders, without much emphasis on them being connected. The new generation of note taking apps are focusing more on folder-less structures where notes are connected between them creating a network of knowledge which is SUPPOSED to ressemble your actual brain, still not sure how I feel about this since I am still trying these apps out. So far having a lot of fun with the AI in some of these apps (currently testing Reflect app and TheBrain, they both offer AI), but I am still trying to see if I can make the transition into a folder-less and backlink-network-interconnected-2ndbrain structure. Hope this helps.

El precio es la diferencia

@@AndresIbanezVasquez I likked very much your comment, my friend! As you, I do also use Evernote for years, since Springpadit ended. I'm always looking for some new possibilities, but never gave up on Evernote. The same happens with Todoist, that I'm always looking for alternatives, but never find a better one.

Isn't your question a bit like asking what is the one car you should pick to drive? Doesn't it depend on how you want to use it and how it feels when you drive it?

Exactly ​@@alanjohnson1092

if i may chime in on my undisputed champion in this space ~ anytype! my entire life is funneled through that app + nothing comes close to it b/c power is in databases + many note taking apps are documentation first, such as obsidian where the database aspect has been handled by a third-party plugin [dataview]

Obsidian

Affine is open source and free (with a paid option)

I'm trying AFFiNE because it's open source and has self-hosting for the cloud part

That's what his KZfaq channel is about....

he doesn't use em all. he's only reviewing