Best Second Brain Ready Note-Taking Apps for 2023

When it comes to task management i found that zenkit base in combination with zenkit todo has everything you need even in the free personal edition: Reminders, calendar sync, and even Prioritization if you use the kanban feature clever. The trick is that you can link zenkit base with zenkit todo. It was easy to set it up and get productive in just one evening, which i really can not say about tools like am...ote which is really counter intuitive.

I am definitely going to try some of these. I have been using Notion for the past few years but I am not the biggest fan of the UI and I’ve always found the mobile experience to be quite cumbersome, so looking for something that’s a bit snappier on mobile, unless Notion introduces more UI options and the UX on non-desktop devices improves

What's your opinion on Scrintal?

Due to the price increase of Evernote I am switching to Obsidian namely because its free and offline functionality. So I can use Obsidian when travelling (no access to WiFi), and storing important documents I dont want stored on the cloud like my passport. I also used Notion a lot during the pandemic. But I found myself not actually being productive... spending too much time on structuring data and page layouts. So I am switching from Notion to Capacities. I can capture information into Capacities via Whatsapp and email. No need for Evernote email. I also love how the daily notes is attached to the calendar feature (similar to Obsidian plugin).Both Capacities and Notion more or less have the same level of data privacy so there is no risk switching from Notion to Capacities.

Why you may ask, I just use Obsidian for everything?

Obsidian is offline first so it requires you to store it on the cloud yourself or back up on a device. I figured for building a second brain I may run out of storage space eventually. This would mean creating multiple vault folders stored in different locations or paying for more storage.


Capacities although cloud based allows you to backup your workspace by exporting in markdown and btw.. you can create multiple spaces. I did not read anywhere there being a limit to file storage on Capacities servers.

Personally enjoy RemNote maybe not as polished as others but suits my note taking style

Did Roam forget to pay or why is it no longer considered?

Thoughts on Heptabase?

Nice video but it woule be great if you highlight which ones are ios only, online only and ones that have a webapp

No mention of roam, a tool on par if not better than all you mentioned.

This guys hatred for roam is comical.

Evernote? Alright, sure , Evernote is better than obsidian!!

What about Upnote?

What application has “network” capabilities and can collaborate with numerous applications to generate a cohesive identity for brain mapping utilizing, to do list’s, brain maps, photos, documents, pdf, bookmarks reminders, AI etc..

I don't think you as a productive person as you're spending too much time on these productivity apps. Compete with me with all your fancy apps and I will beat you with just pen and paper.

I use reflect and it's awesome. Like obsidian but with offline usage and other features that make life so much easier. More expensive but worth it for me.

Evernote is dead

Tried just about all of these. Switched from Obsidian to Capacities. Absolutely loving it. Switched from Milanote to Lucidspark, and nothing beats Lucidspark for visual mapping of ideas. It's amazing.

Really, not even a word about TheBrain?

One thing that is never covered because not many of uour audience will do this is qualitative research. That is an academic approach to handling written or visual material its the opposite of using quantitative approaches. One of the leading tools academics use is nvivo. Evernote notes can be imported into nvivo. We have to use nvivo because despite what people think AI cannot yet and is unlikely to replace hand coding of text for meaning. Apps at the moment dont understand cultural meaning and sarcasm for example

Christ... Evernote again????

Mymind is definitely like a child of Pinterest and Google keep

Obsidian User here. Absolutely love it. But I don't think it's that easy to use, in fact the possibilities to make it more and more complex and tailored to your needs are endless,and that is great! But Needs some time to get into it.

Hi, is there a note taking app which can also take handwritten inputs. And I am not talking about One Note. But the ones that can help me to build a second brain.

I'm surprised you didn't consider Taskade!

Tana beat all of them!)

If I can't color a word or title in a note taking app, that ain't a note taking app. Most of them you mentioned here except Evernote and Notion, does not allow coloring the text.

Is it possible to use Second brain with ClickUp? A video about that would be great

I think RemNote is the best of all these simplly bcoz it allows u to link individual bullet points rather than entire pages. It makes linking thoughts much berree

Does Milanote support OCR?

Sticking with Roam Research. The only second brain I've tried that works so well.

Timestamps

Can’t support Evernote anymore after what the new parent company has done recently.

How is the "second brain" different than David Allen's external brain?

I really just need an app that is windows/mac/ipad that makes writing enjoyable and formats very well so that i can push it into web platforms. easily (markdown is fine) i dont need minimal but something like obsidian is not a good answer spend more time tweaking than writing. Notion is horrible for writing say scripts and articles in my opinion due to the block editor really being crap. Craft is an option but I think there is an issue with inline images. One Note may be an answer but like word it is horrible to copy the text into something else. Upnote? Pulsar is awesome for just general notes, i live in text files and searching through large directories of tons of text files but this is not a writing solution.

What about Anytype and Capacities?

YAS milanote 👏👏

anytype.

I really think Capacities might be all of these

Please timestamp your videos

Devonthink and Craft are good apps to add to this list.

Strictly for Notion Users who has invested a lot of time into build their second brain in notion**
I really don't understand how MEM is that much better than Notion. With all due respect, since you are an investor in MEM there maybe some confirmation bias to what you are saying. Even if MEM AI is better as of now there is no reason to believe that Notion cannot improve its AI capabilities. Moreover if we are using AI to search for things without recalling the path of a particular note then we maybe missing out on a great way of practising active recall.