• irishPotato@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    10 hours ago

    I’ve never used a proper note taking app, but recently started using Tana (Startup, free-to-use with some limitations after giving a credit card and cancelling during a two week trial).

    It’s not open source and it only supports full HTML bulleted list or a heavily proprietary JSON format (which is kinda useless outside Tana) exports. Also most of the paid features are AI BS which I don’t mind missing out on, but there are file-size limits on the free version.

    However, I’m finding the UX and features so far amazing! It’s got easy relationships and a tagging hierarchy systems to which you can add fields and it supports a whole bunch of view options and query stuff. You can scroll through this 46 min YT video to get a feel for it!

    Edit: forgot to mention at time pf writing (felt it was implied I guess), it’s cloud only, no local, one of the reasons I feel it’s not ideal

      • irishPotato@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        10 hours ago

        Wow, chill, I stated how it’s not in line with the community. Just thought it was worth the mention as I quite like it, it’s got plenty of UX and features I would love to see in a FOS offering but just haven’t!

        I’m part of the community even though I’m not a zealot, in this specific instance I’m very consciously sacrificing a bit of privacy for what I consider a better UX.

        My thinking was that best case someone more in the know would point out an app that’s just as good or better and offers the lacking privacy…

    • hikaru755@lemmy.world
      1·
      22 hours ago

      Same boat here, recently discovered tana and its whole model is amazing. It’s fixing most of the things that bothered me a lot in Obsidian and Notion, respectively. I don’t want to go back to a service where I don’t have file-based control over my own data though, so now I’m seriously considering building something on my own that takes the mental model of tana, but implements it local-first based on regular files like Obsidian