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Have you tried Obsidian? Is a good alternative for Roam. It also gives you the power to decide where to save your files as it's offline first :)

The community is big and it's extensible thanks to the API exposed by the creators.

Maybe I'm a little biased because I'm a developer and I do love when there is a tool that let's you to enhance it by you or/and the community.

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Apr 13, 2023Liked by Jeremy Caplan

It’s compelling that OpenAI invested in Mem. My personal take is that the key thing going forward is going to be note exportability with fidelity. Who knows what will be the incredible, AI infused option in a few years? By building your notes in Markdown (Obsidian, etc), you future proof your data for easy importing into the best tool.

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Jan 18, 2023Liked by Jeremy Caplan

HI, not sure if you are a fan of Obsidian, but consider writing about it.

It is mark-down first, format-agnostic user-centric notetaking system,

https://obsidian.md/

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Jan 5, 2023Liked by Jeremy Caplan

I love checking out new tools (which is, obviously, why I subscribe to your newsletter :)).

Some apps/tools do a specific job better than the others, which is why I no longer try to make any one app my "one in all" tool. Rather, I try to clearly define my digital workflow and how and why I am using each of my tools.

I describe that workflow in this post: https://musingsofaxennial.substack.com/p/how-to-clearly-define-your-digital

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Apr 21, 2023Β·edited Apr 21, 2023

Didn't know that Open AI invested in Mem! I moved from Evernote to Saga.so after trying out Notion for a bit but being overwhelmed. Found Saga to be the most simple and fast solution for writing and searching through content, without the need to organize. They also recently launched an AI writing assistant https://saga.so/ai

Will try out Mem in parallel - seems they have a lot of common features

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What about Eessel?

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I’m a fan and user of Workflowy after using Evernote, then Notion. It’s refreshingly simple; works for me Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

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Hey I was wondering if your familiar with remnote, and what your thoughts are on it versus other note taking tools

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Tried to click on site you're using tomorrow my phone threw up block said site was phishing threat. Just so you know

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