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1. Obsidian for power note takers update#
2. Obsidian for power note takers pro#
3. Obsidian for power note takers software#
4. Obsidian for power note takers code#

It actually took longer for the Mac app to gain all the iPad features, which is backward from most developed software (Craft’s Mac app just won Apple’s 2021 software of the year award, so I guess it caught up!). Craft was designed for iPad first, and it truly feels that way with no limits in functionality or power.

Obsidian for power note takers pro#

Since I use an iPad Pro for almost all my work, I need a platform without mobile compromises. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. People think it’s this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. The interface fades into the background as I work, precisely what I want in a thinking tool like this. With Craft, everything on screen is there for a good purpose, nothing more. Intuitive keyboard shortcuts and slash commands keep my hands on the keyboard and my thoughts flowing without having to think now, how again do you link to a block in another note? With other apps and Obsidian, in particular, the design and user interface feel like glaring distractions that interrupt flow. My notes appear consistently polished, not janky with placeholder brackets, caret symbols, or exclamation marks.

Obsidian for power note takers code#

Markdown text commands fly from my fingers and transform before my eyes into perfectly formatted text - no arcane symbols or HTML code to disrupt my thinking, no toggle between edit and preview mode to confuse me. Dragging a block or a note somewhere in the app (or outside of it) does exactly what you expect it should. Craft reminds me of the best of Apple’s hardware and software designs. The text spacing, the font choice, the intuitive user interface, the colors, and even the app icon options point to a gifted visionary with an intense focus on a near-perfect balance of form and function.

DesignĬraft is beautiful, drawing praise from just about everyone who tries it. But in the process, I learned what matters most to me in using these knowledge and thinking tools that I thought would be useful to share with others who might be thinking about diving into the PKM world. I soon learned that Obsidian wouldn’t work for me, and despite the automation with ReadWise, I hurried back to my beloved Craft. Obsidian has won over many fans with its powerful linking tools on top of plain text files, and this new superpower of syncing ReadWise highlights automatically was too tempting not to try out. ReadWise is a service that gathers and resurfaces highlights and annotations from books and periodicals, scratching a particular itch for serious readers. I spent a few weeks in this alternate note-taking universe when ReadWise released its official plug-in for Obsidian. In part, my enthusiasm for Craft stems from a short dalliance with Obsidian, another popular PKM app. With the announcement of Craft 2.0 and Craft X, I am more excited than ever about the future of this fantastic app. It matches my sense of design sensibilities and interface delight it works the way I think. The designers have created and continue to evolve an iPad-first thinking tool that enables me to focus on my ideas and connected thoughts without unnecessary complexity or clutter. It took a while to reach critical mass, but I find that the time I spend - writing notes, linking notes, and exploring connections - now yields some of my most thoughtful and creative work. Over the year, the notes I created inside Craft have taken on a life of their own, approaching that mythic “second brain” potential. I had this uneasy feeling that I was wasting my time taking notes at all. Before Craft, these notes were scattered across note cards, journals, and the margins of books - locked away and seldom consulted. I take notes on things that interest me so that I might use this knowledge to make better decisions and inform my own writing.

I use Craft as a Zettelkasten-style note-taking system fed by a healthy reading habit.

Obsidian for power note takers update#

I shared my impressions of Craft early on, but I thought I would provide an update on how I’m using the software and why, with all the other choices available in the personal knowledge management (PKM) space, I’m still all-in with Craft. It’s been a year since I adopted Craft as my primary research and note-taking app.