The future of note-taking is visual
5 next-generation apps the Note-Taking Industrial Complex isn’t telling you about
There’s a quiet revolution going on in the world of note-taking applications. While a large number of Medium writers are publishing articles obsessing over their Notion, Rome and Obsidian setups, a new class of visual note-taking apps are sneaking in under the radar.
These next-generation tools offer powerful brain-enhancing features that make them especially attractive to creators who are looking for something more to nurture their ideas.
2 limitations of text-based note-taking tools
Text-based note-taking tools, such as Evernote, Roam and Obsidian, use the note as the unit of knowledge or ideas. Their user interface somewhat limits how are you can show relationships between them.
Yes, you can link notes together. But that’s not the same as seeing them visually in relation to each other on a flexible canvas and being able to move them around at will.
Also, while traditional note-taking tools enable you to embed rich media into notes or pages, they can’t usually be treated as independent objects. In visual note-taking tools, nearly any type of content can be added as new nodes to your…
