I love the new Scrintal, I don't use it as a PKM but for researching a particular topic. I still use Capacities as my daily driver for the opposite reason to using Scrintal, Capacities has rigidity so staying organised isn't hard. It has a great mobile app so I'm beginning to use other Apps less and less.
I think that is an extremely good use case for scrintal. It is a great research/zettlekasten application. That also removes the need for a mobile application. I might consider doing that in the future, but I will continue with this experiment at least for now.
@danielpourasg you are wise to stick with Scrintal and give it a fair go. I only switch tools once every six months to avoid the temptation of exploring every new option. This approach allows me to thoroughly test each tool. However, I did use Appflowy for a brief period, which means I broke my own rule. I also tried Tana for four months, but I eventually gave up on it because I felt the product has a limit; you can only reach a certain level before it becomes very challenging to use. In contrast, mastering all the features of tools like Notion or even Capacities isn’t that difficult, and achieving that mastery feels like a significant accomplishment.
I loved the simplicity (the fluidity for creating and connecting notes) and elegance of V1-it was perfect for a pure Zettelkasten approach. Now, Scrintal has become more complex in an effort to compete with Heptabase… but it still falls short of Heptabase’s capabilities.
@ I think you’re right at least to some extent. Because the v1 was much better for a zettlekasten system, but I think that the use case for that was too niche to sustain a business. But I might wrong of course, but that is at least my thought. I think there is a bigger use case for scrintal 2.0. But it would have been great if they could maintain v1.
There is offline in scrintal on the desktop apps. However it is not a local first solution. But you can use the app offline and it will sync back up when you are online again. I think that is how it works.
As soon as you start storing PDFs and Videos storing localy become impractical. I know Mac are now really powerful but it's not a good thing to carry your only copy of everything because laptops and phones do have a short live.
Love the new format, Daniel. Content remains unchanged…consistently excellent!
Thank you so much! More to come!
I love the new Scrintal, I don't use it as a PKM but for researching a particular topic.
I still use Capacities as my daily driver for the opposite reason to using Scrintal, Capacities has rigidity so staying organised isn't hard. It has a great mobile app so I'm beginning to use other Apps less and less.
I do exactly the same
I think that is an extremely good use case for scrintal. It is a great research/zettlekasten application. That also removes the need for a mobile application. I might consider doing that in the future, but I will continue with this experiment at least for now.
@danielpourasg you are wise to stick with Scrintal and give it a fair go.
I only switch tools once every six months to avoid the temptation of exploring every new option. This approach allows me to thoroughly test each tool.
However, I did use Appflowy for a brief period, which means I broke my own rule. I also tried Tana for four months, but I eventually gave up on it because I felt the product has a limit; you can only reach a certain level before it becomes very challenging to use. In contrast, mastering all the features of tools like Notion or even Capacities isn’t that difficult, and achieving that mastery feels like a significant accomplishment.
I loved the simplicity (the fluidity for creating and connecting notes) and elegance of V1-it was perfect for a pure Zettelkasten approach. Now, Scrintal has become more complex in an effort to compete with Heptabase… but it still falls short of Heptabase’s capabilities.
@ I think you’re right at least to some extent. Because the v1 was much better for a zettlekasten system, but I think that the use case for that was too niche to sustain a business. But I might wrong of course, but that is at least my thought. I think there is a bigger use case for scrintal 2.0. But it would have been great if they could maintain v1.
Any plans for scrintal to go local and or offline ??? I would like more privacy
There is offline in scrintal on the desktop apps. However it is not a local first solution. But you can use the app offline and it will sync back up when you are online again. I think that is how it works.
@danielpourasg ok I see good to know... so it's cloud based
As soon as you start storing PDFs and Videos storing localy become impractical. I know Mac are now really powerful but it's not a good thing to carry your only copy of everything because laptops and phones do have a short live.
@ I agree! That is why I personally prefer the cloud based solution with the ability to work offline.
have you tried slite for note taking?
No I haven’t, but I will check it out!
You misspelled:
My thoughts on *-scintal-* after using in for a while
This is right > scrintal
Thank you for letting me know!