Another idea for something to cover that I've found myself using enough to pay for a subscription is Gingko. I'll cover that in my eventual article as I've used it a lot, but didn't know if you would be interested.-wraith808
So that's the web version? I was having a quick play, before going on to review RightNote.
AFAICS (long time since I have used it), it is still a convoluted process getting cards coloured or images in. And I can't even see a way of doing that in the desktop version.
And without being able to do that what makes it visual? (I always thought that the emphasis on MarkDown and LaTex was a profoundly non-visual way of thinking about things, and enforced a text/keyboard emphasis). And typing MarkDown instructions does NOT make it easier to concentrate on writing the words you want. What makes it different to typewritten sheets laid out on the floor in columns?
The comments I have seen from some users suggest a profound writers block where they were intimidated by the size and structure of what they were doing and just found it much easier to do all their writing on apparently unconnected cards.
So unless I'm missing something important (not unlikely), I think it will do very poorly in all the categories of the review. OK for writing (though good for pantsers) and some organisational capability. So I'd like to know what advantages you have found for it in use as I fear I may have missed them.
When I do a review of it, I think I will within a group of card approaches and do it jointly with NoteZilla.
-Dormouse
It requires a change of paradigm... to start thinking of things in a horizontal fashion, rather than a vertical. I use it because it's more intuitive in it's grouping than most notecards within writing apps, or even something like Scapple. I use it to organize text in an outline format; I never use images in these particular tools, so perhaps it's just a different way of doing things.
In one of my outlines, for example:
The first layer is my three major themes.
In the second layer on each, I expand into the major points I want to hit in the themes.
Then the third layer in each starts to get into details.
They're intentionally kept very minimal, and if I need more details on a tangent, I add another level. I can do it all from the keyboard without using any menus, and just let the ideas flow in a format that I can reference, export to JSON, and use easily in a variety of circumstances.
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