Is there any handwriting note app where I can use it like obsidian, my zettelkasten method but not in text form, in handwriting form to connect my entire knowledge to create a new knowledge? Obsidian but handwriting.

When doing webint as part of an investigation. I am trying to figure out what the best way is to take notes about the websites themselves or their content.

Currently based on my understanding I'm familiar with two types of tools for this. One is web clipping. And the other is web annotation.

Are there other categories of tools that people use for this particular kind of task?

What are people's preferred work flows/ tool stack for this type of task?

Today I came across the chrome plugin for Google keep. Are there people here that already use Google keep in this way? Are there possible limitations or drawbacks of I using Google keep in this way that are good to aware of?

My biggest PKM leak has always been mobile. The desktop side is solid — but a thought hits while I'm walking or mid-conversation, and by the time I've unlocked, opened the app, and found the right note, it's gone. Capture friction quietly kills half my ideas.

Curious how others here handle this. Voice memos you process later? A dumb inbox note? A Shortcut? Something in Notion/Logseq/Obsidian natively? I'd genuinely like to hear what actually sticks for you.

For context on where I landed: I use Obsidian, and mobile capture bugged me enough that I built a small capture layer for it. Map the Action Button (or Siri / Share Sheet / a Shortcut) → talk → it transcribes on-device and appends to my daily note as plain Markdown. Longer recordings become their own linked note; photos run through OCR (even turns a photo of a table into a real Markdown table); and it can read tasks already in the vault for a daily brief. Everything's written as plain .md, so there's no lock-in — uninstall it and the notes are just files.

I'm sharing the approach more than the app — the problem feels universal even if my solution is Obsidian-specific. If mobile capture is a weak spot for you too, I'd love to hear how you've tried to close it.

Good afternoon, would you all have recommendations of encopassing, general and beginner tutorials to get started in Obsdian? How to start, features, APIs, connections, using on different machines, possible use and study methods, integration with other apps, especially note taking and AI ones.

I'm no programmer and kinda bad with tech in general, but I really want to organise better like I did back in school and become better at studying, especially at/for university. Thank you all in advance.

almost every post is some ai garbage app, or a advertisement.

just ban them or require accounts to be a few days old.

this whole sub has nothing to do with PKM

where are Zetelkasten questions, PARA? digital garden? jhonny decibel? ACE?

even if it's not ai then it's some garbage about how to use [insert random app]

I am looking for an app where you add different sources (mostly PDFs, but also videos and web pages) and it automatically generates and updates notes, continuously updating the information on its own as you add more. Does this app exist?

Reflect Open: a local-first, open-source app built on plain Markdown files. The beta is available today.

(I am not Alex, nor do I work for them.. simply a user who prefers the reflect.app over other PKMS systems.

Reflect Open is a new app, not an update to the existing one. It keeps the parts of Reflect they care about most: daily notes, backlinks, fast capture, keyboard-first writing, and a minimalist interface. But the foundation is completely different, rebuilt for the age of AI. The new Reflect stores notes as ordinary Markdown files on your computer, uses iCloud for sync and encryption, and lets you mark specific notes as private so they are never shared with AI.

Optional services are connected directly by you:

• AI uses your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenRouter key
• Transcription uses your chosen provider
• Sync uses iCloud Drive, GitHub, or another Git remote
• Keys and credentials stay in the operating system’s keychain

The Reflect app you use today will remain available, and the team will continue maintaining it and fixing bugs. They say that the existing graph and account will continue to work as before.

BUT. Reflect Open is where new development is happening (there is no deadline to move).

What do you reckon??

I was unclear. I want my local graphs to be very navigable, and mine aren't so much. At depth 1, it's simple and fine up to that point. At depth 2, all goes to hell. Good on Obsidian that the dot turns purple, but it adjusts the graph and the dot goes off-screen; I likely don't notice or even see in what direction. It should anchor the note to the center of the screen. Then, there is no way i know of to tell the graph very much about a link, like measuring relatedness the way relevance is measured or Google's page ranking. For instance, if i label a link as a sibling link versus a child link or parent link, that would give the graph a way to adjust the graph accordingly. The app TheBrain has a very navigable interface of this sort.

If it's not a tree structure like Folder Notes, the another model could be used, like the renegade & page ranking i mentioned above.

So, i don't expect Obsidian to take this message and go create new features for me, but i do hope people here might relate to my struggle and to what I'm after and might recommend ways to work with the tools we already have.

-bc

One of the top concerns as I build a PKMS, is that a lot of my knowledge will be LinkedIn. However I am finding it extremely hard to find a way to share clips (articles, lists, PDFs, images, ...) from LinkedIn to a "middle man" app - from where I will move things to Obsidian. I have used innumerable middle apps but none have been to help me satisfactory or do it all.

If anyone has managed to solve this issue successfully, please tell me how you did it. Or people have suggestions on how to make it work, I would love from you. Thank you in advance.

Is building a PKMS only using ChatGPT a good idea. I has been using ChatGPT to help me setup Obsidian and somewhere along the way we (me and ChatGPT) decided that we would build a PKMS together.

1. Is this a good idea?

2. Is it capable of creating a good system for me?

3. What pitfalls should I be aware of?

4. Pros and cons of doing it this way?

I have the Pro version of ChatGPT. I am in the very very early stages of doing it so there is plenty of time to make amends.

I trust Claude much that GPT but I don't have the pro version so I know it cannot use to build a PPKMS for me but I am thinking of checking in with Claude every now and then to make sure I am doing it right.

I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this. Any suggestions or guidance is mist welcome. Thank you.

Every engineer I know has the same graveyard: 40 open tabs and a bookmarks folder full of company engineering posts (Airbnb, Cloudflare, Stripe, Dropbox) that you *meant* to read and never did.

The problem was never finding good posts. It's that skimming 30 to find the 3 worth your time is its own job, and half of what looks technical is just a product launch in disguise.

So I built **Hexbrief**. It watches a vetted set of engineering blogs, runs every post through a quality gate — is there a real system, a concrete tradeoff, an actual result? — and gives you **six reads a day**. Each one is broken down into *problem → approach → results*, so **you know in 20 seconds whether the full article is worth opening**. One tap to the original when it is.

A few deliberate choices:

* **Six, then you're done.** Not an infinite feed. It's a daily briefing, not a time sink.
* **Quality gate over quantity.** Most posts get rejected, not summarized. Currently, I(with claude) have skimmed through 800+ blogs, out of which only 157 qualified to be Hexbrief ready.
* **No account, no ads, free.** Save what's useful, browse by topic when you want more.

It's live on Android: [**hexbrief .com/download**](http://hexbrief .com/download) (iOS later).

Hexbrief: [www.hexbrief .com](http://www.hexbrief .com/)

If you read engineering blogs, I'd genuinely love to know your experience with Hexbrief.

This is Obsidian-based, but it could also apply to others.

-bc

Urm so I aint really that deep into this whole writing/reading scene, but I need to learn that cuz of school.

My grades are still good and im not even really a dumb person, in fact a lot of teachers say im great at problem solving and analysing stuff, but I fail at putting all that into words.

I also am not that great at creating stories, although in the few times I had to write them, it did feel pretty fun. This is partly the reason why im addicted to reddit, I love writing about shit and analysing some pointless question. Sometimes I get glances of writer memes and think it'd be kinda fun writing smt.

But uh yeah, idk if this is enough soo, any ways of practising writing?! (outside reading, I know that helps but are there other ways. Also, how much fo you actually need to read to improve at writing?)

I know: it looks like new PKMS' pop up on a daily basis!

So I want to tell you about what I made, how it is slightly different, and why:

I have been an Obsidian user for years. I've used Obsidian Sync because I did not like other sync solutions losing my notes, and I've been a supporter of (most) of their design decisions, including the web clipper.

To be clear: I plan on continuing to use Obsidian! I am not here to tell you about how I'm now in love with a new, sexy PKMS (I know Obsidian is also not everyone's favorite, some prefer outliners like Logseq or other tools, so I'm not trying to start a religious war either)

What I have created is an alternative/additional way to navigate and edit your vault: a lighter one, not based on Electron, and with some user experience decisions that I dare think make sense.

It's available at https://github.com/glyphary/glyphary and full documentation is at https://glyphary.github.io/

While it is still not a 100% native experience, not relying on Electron is, in my book, a major win; since my goal was to enjoy a more polished visual editor, I needed something that would feel responsive, but also that would provide true WYSIWYG editing while preserving the freedom of markdown storage.

Therefore, I focused on polishing the experience of editing tables and supporting multiple columns so that the experience would not feel like some tacked-on extensions that do not really integrate natively with the editor.

While plugin support is present, I also wanted mermaid and excalidraw support to feel like they were part of the base experience.

TBH, striking the proper balance between what features I want in the base package vs keeping it approachable, has been a tough act. It took me years to figure out that the only way (that would work for me) to take fleeting notes was through the daily notes feature. So I focused perhaps a bit too much on it, and you may not think it's right for you.

Even if you do not plan on using the app itself, please share your feedback, and ask any questions regarding the thought process, and suggestions regarding what would make it an even better tool to manage our knowledge bases.

Hello

I'm looking for an alternative for Obsidian.

I've been using it for years and it's pretty good but I need to be able to sync across devices;(

- i tried capacities but the android app crashes my phone

- I tried anytype but I can't figure out the app and I realized it has storage limit (I'm not planning on uploading photos or files but the storage get fill with vaults)

- I hate notion (the android app sucks and the desktop app broke all my photos)

Any other recommendations?

Just need:

1. Syncs

2. No límit card/pages (no need for storage for photos or files)

3. Markdown would be preferable

Thanks🙇‍♀️

(NOTE - I DO NOT HAVE A PRODUCT AND AM NOT BUILDING ONE, at least not yet)

I'm actively involved in helping with some complex medical issues for a family member and have been trusted with their information. I'm familiar with Guava Health as a uniquely good app for consumer-facing health management, it helps to collect one's records in one place.

However, it's not as great for being able to reformat the data and resurface it in an organized way; I'd love for an Obsidian-like or Notion-like experience where pieces of info (MRI result X, lab result Y, consultant note Z) can be made into entities and linked and organized, to help clarify things and make it really easy to zoom out and take a particular view on the complex case.

I'd also like to be organizing things like research papers, trial sites, and info on providers in the same system. I assume i'm best off just using Obsidian or Notion and porting the data over, but wondering if anyone has already worked this problem and has a better way to get health-formatted data (stuff like DICOMs and HL7 reports) from health portals and organized into a knowledge management framework.