This isn’t a criticism of you specifically but the main output of productivity gurus like Ali Abdaal is talking about productivity in abstract. Not a single video about what all this time spent harvesting and organizing information actually accomplished in the real world. Harvesting and organizing is not an end in itself.

Thank you for sharing your process. I’m using obsidian but will probably think about this as I try to incorporate canvas into my workflow

I love your use of strikethrough to indicate something has been processed. Fills in a big gap for me. I often get stuck on the question of where things should live: in the source note or in the new note. This solves that conundrum!

Thanks. I liked the explanation. Most comparison videos focus on the small little features that are different between the two, but not necessarily on the workflow of each app. I was struggling to notice the difference between the two myself until I used them both for an extended period of time. Hopefully, this video will help new users to make a faster decision when choosing between the two.

Excelente, Bia! Vou experimentar algo parecido, mas no meu caso com o Muse.

Really good explanation of the differences! Question about Scrintal: taking book notes as an example, say I want to be able to connect ideas from different books to each other. Will I have to create all of my book notes within the same board, or do the notes live independently from boards, and I can bring them into boards as I choose? Thought about using Obsidian to do the same thing that you do on Scrintal: Use the graph instead of a canvas. The graph shows the relationship between notes and as soon as you create a new note, it's going to appear on the graph and be connected to the first note! You can keep multiple notes open side by side to copy and paste between them. While Scrintal looks great, The reason I'll be sticking with Obsidian for the time being is that it works entirely offline. Even if I ever lose access to Obsidian, I will not lose access to my notes which are stored in plain text. And the conventions that Obsidian uses to link notes to each other and create the graph view are already used by other PKM applications. So even if the Obsidian team stops its development, there are alternatives and there are going to be successors too.

I guess I don’t understand how Srintal makes the links automatically. Like aren’t you making the links there as well

I love Scrintal, but the faintness of the lines is a pain. Plus, I want to document the connections rather than just link them. Heptabase has a nicer graphical view but lacks the ability to have boards within boards, so as a Visual-Spatial thinker Heptabase lacks the added dimensions. However, Scrintal has a major update planned for Autumn 24 so lets so what improvements are coming.

Thank you. This was very helpful. I very much want to be able to see the primary connections instantly. This might make me stay in Scrintal. I'm really weighing between the two programs to that degree that I haven't started using any of them properly. My hesitation is also connected to having many learning lessbilities. I know it will take a lot of effort to make it work and I don't want to put the energy in the wrong tool. I thought I had chosen Scrintal, until I realized that I'm not even allowed in to the app without being online, so all off line work goes away. I also find that Scrintal is more difficult to use in ways I didn't expect.

too bad, its not available on ios yet.

Good video!! I felt this way until I was introduced to the "Excalidraw plugin” in Obsidian. It is Like Canvas on steroids plus tax. 😊

Scrintal looks interesting, but its paid-only.