Dear @kewms and @fharvey , thanks for the hints.
The comparison of TiddlyWiki to Obsidian makes sense. Stroll is a response to Roam and looks really interesting. It maintains the notes-as-cards editing approach but otherwise implements various ideas from Roam. Nice that the developers took note of the developments and responded with Stroll as a new approach to TiddlyWiki. Thanks again for the tip.
I have by now come to the conclusion that the outlining experience of Workflowly and Roam is really nice and using it has had an immediate benefit for me. The user experience is largely determined by the following features, I think:
- The outlining feature that creates a note of notes
- WYSIWYG markdown style editing
- Collapse and expand of blocks, notes and lists
- Mirror notes (block level transclusion)
- In situ preview
- In situ search
- Autocompletion
- In line boards
- In line queries
- Easy re-arrangement of elements (e.g. dragging or keyboard based)
- Automatic renaming across notes
- The focus mode (which people also use in demos and presentations)
… plus back-linking, graph view and all the fancy things that I initially felt were most important but which I myself have not found useful, yet. What the feature list above allows is fast keyboard-based editing of multiple notes, handing several notes simultaneously. Everyone decide for her or himself which of the features above and the experience of using them is available with DT and DTTG (and the other tools mentioned in the thread and their use in combination).
It is not just the feature list (“hey look, I can outline on paper as well”) but the simplicity and ease of use that makes the difference (for me). It took me some time to appreciate the subtle differences which is why thought it would be worth sharing.
My hope was that the discussion here brings up ideas for tools that could do that on top of DT, as an editing front end. I also tried various markdown editors that would improve the note taking experience in combination with DT and DTTG. There are lots of threads with ideas for other note takers and markdown editors to be used together with DT and DTTG. Of course, the people here come, at the end, to the conclusion that everything can already be done with DT… .
With kind regards
Olaf