I love these. This is your best writing yet. I just sounds so naturally, like it you right there in the page. Keep going!
No for the challenge: my must haves?
- Voice transcription. This has become extremely important to me. It get me through periods of executive disfunction where I can't pull myself together to explain my thoughts in writing.
- AI - I'm so surprised to say that but it's true for the same reason as above. When I'm going through periods of high-autism and I can't get myself together I can spit an bunch of fragments into voice transcription and then ask the AI to find the logic in what I'm saying. This gives me a skeleton to react to and allows me to keep creating durin periods where in the past I wuold just have to walk away for a few weeks or months.
- Daily Pages - it's all about not having to think about where I'm going to put something. It saves me so much debating time.
- Infinite canvas - this has really because useful for deep thinking. Breaking ideas into pieces is something I've always done but can use my actual whiteboard less often.
- Backlinks - same reasons as you
- Excellent Search!
- Good Typography - I need to be able to read my notes clearly and sometimes at a glance. This requires a font that displays bold and italics clearly. (Right now this is my least favorite thing about Tana and Reflect Notes.)
Infinite Canvas and Good Search are definitely in my nice-to-haves. My recent go-tos have been Scapple or Freeform on iPad and I'm sure you also use your whiteboard for this too.
What are you currently using for voice transcription? How you use it is something I hadn't thought of so it's very eye-opening to hear. Being able to create during those periods of down time is so valuable.
Thank you both for sharing. I especially like the viewpoint of personal interest exploration.
I am building a note-taking application that combines card notes + infinite canvas (for research scenarios) + linked cards.
I think this will definitely be helpful in assisting users to explore their interests. I hope that when the application is completed, I can invite both of you to use it, haha.
Awesome! I have one suggestion: check out the Heptabase UX when dealing with cards. Being able to drag out pieces from larger cards and have them become new cards on the canvas is huge. It cuts out so many pain points and only Heptabase (and Affine to a certain degree) are doing this. It will set you apart if you can nail it!
Scapple! I used that for years. Still the fastest way to do a brain storm (other that voice transcription.) It works beautifully in Tana and Reflect. As I'm sure you know, Tana automatically processes it, which is nice for reviewing morning pages etc. Give it a shot. Just empty your brain on an ideas and the start asking the AI about that node. Get it to outline it and organize it. Ask it questions until you've got it all worked out. It's extremely helpful. You could also collect a bunch of voice transcriptions around on idea in Tana and them pull them all into one documents in Capacities and chat with the document.
I think what I'm going to try this week is taking all the raw transcription in Claude and working with Claude to organize and clean it up. I find Claude is better with language based tasks. And that artifacts feature is perfect as it keep revising the document on the right.
I love these. This is your best writing yet. I just sounds so naturally, like it you right there in the page. Keep going!
No for the challenge: my must haves?
- Voice transcription. This has become extremely important to me. It get me through periods of executive disfunction where I can't pull myself together to explain my thoughts in writing.
- AI - I'm so surprised to say that but it's true for the same reason as above. When I'm going through periods of high-autism and I can't get myself together I can spit an bunch of fragments into voice transcription and then ask the AI to find the logic in what I'm saying. This gives me a skeleton to react to and allows me to keep creating durin periods where in the past I wuold just have to walk away for a few weeks or months.
- Daily Pages - it's all about not having to think about where I'm going to put something. It saves me so much debating time.
- Infinite canvas - this has really because useful for deep thinking. Breaking ideas into pieces is something I've always done but can use my actual whiteboard less often.
- Backlinks - same reasons as you
- Excellent Search!
- Good Typography - I need to be able to read my notes clearly and sometimes at a glance. This requires a font that displays bold and italics clearly. (Right now this is my least favorite thing about Tana and Reflect Notes.)
Your words mean so much, thank you!!
Infinite Canvas and Good Search are definitely in my nice-to-haves. My recent go-tos have been Scapple or Freeform on iPad and I'm sure you also use your whiteboard for this too.
What are you currently using for voice transcription? How you use it is something I hadn't thought of so it's very eye-opening to hear. Being able to create during those periods of down time is so valuable.
Thank you both for sharing. I especially like the viewpoint of personal interest exploration.
I am building a note-taking application that combines card notes + infinite canvas (for research scenarios) + linked cards.
I think this will definitely be helpful in assisting users to explore their interests. I hope that when the application is completed, I can invite both of you to use it, haha.
Thanks and all the best with your app!
Awesome! I have one suggestion: check out the Heptabase UX when dealing with cards. Being able to drag out pieces from larger cards and have them become new cards on the canvas is huge. It cuts out so many pain points and only Heptabase (and Affine to a certain degree) are doing this. It will set you apart if you can nail it!
Scapple! I used that for years. Still the fastest way to do a brain storm (other that voice transcription.) It works beautifully in Tana and Reflect. As I'm sure you know, Tana automatically processes it, which is nice for reviewing morning pages etc. Give it a shot. Just empty your brain on an ideas and the start asking the AI about that node. Get it to outline it and organize it. Ask it questions until you've got it all worked out. It's extremely helpful. You could also collect a bunch of voice transcriptions around on idea in Tana and them pull them all into one documents in Capacities and chat with the document.
I think what I'm going to try this week is taking all the raw transcription in Claude and working with Claude to organize and clean it up. I find Claude is better with language based tasks. And that artifacts feature is perfect as it keep revising the document on the right.
Scapple is quite fast. No bells and whistles, exactly what you need and nothing more.
Voice sounds so powerful when you describe it like this. I've gotta give it a go!
Claude really feels like an assistant, a partner even. Looking forward to your feedback on how it goes in there.
I think you'll dig the process and I imagine I'll be reading about the results soon.