NOTION vs ROAM vs OBSIDIAN vs REMNOTE (How to choose the BEST FIT note taking app for you!) - YouTube video highlights summary
Two main categories:
Productivity
Personal Knowledge Management
Apps for each category:
Bi-directional Linking ought to be the most important feature here
Personal, portable
efficient
for writers, researchers, creatives
built for students and long term learning
built in spaced repetition and active recall
like anki on steroids
Spaced repetition? Just use the Roam Toolkit. Reasons why Roam Toolkit's spaced repetition is better than RemNote:
It provides context. Context is big. If you train on Anki, for example, all you are doing is conditioning a 'cue' with a the memory. In Roam, "many roads lead to Roam" - you can essentially target the same information in so many ways, and it is an active building process.
It is not a flashcard. Roam allows programmable attention.
Along with the context comes other forms of memory - according to location, etc.
You can build on your existing knowledge, change the ease factor or intervals or date directly.
You can do it on multiple levels. You can SR the parent, you can SR the children, you can SR the more granular details as well. Best part? It's not bound to a single flashcard, you can preserve the entire context!
Flexibility is big. You can query it in so many ways. You can include interval and exclude certain topics you don't want to deal with. You can choose a time range. You can review in advance.
Imo Remnote is sticking to traditional ways of thinking about SR - thinking that everything must be placed within the confines of a single flashcard.
I personally dislike that kind of loss of context, which is also why I've moved away from Anki in the past. It's also the reason why I never tried Neuracache (no hate bro, just a personal pref). I strive for frictionless learning. Learning is active, not passive, we need to actively join information from the bottom-up, synthesise it in new perspectives and ways.
tldr Imo flashcards are so 1990s. It's time to move on.
80% of the items you access in any given day should be retrievable within 2-seconds. That is the “2-second rule” described in Cognitive Productivity books.
Our major overarching objective in developing Hook is to help you apply your full executive functions (your consciousness) to your current task. By enabling you to file less, search less and simply access related resources, Hook keeps you focused.
{{TODO}} to/google tools to support executive functions
possible apps for executive functions list