Not sure whether there is a bandwagon to jump on since DT is riding already in the same direction. I think Notion has its role for teams, for example. It does however not serve as a personal repository for private documents.
While you will again claim that everything is possible (see above your comment about outlining), I donât understand why you cannot see the advantages of a foldable outline and instead makes jokes about it. I donât think DT is a good outliner tool.
For those who collect many short notes for research and want to synthesize new ones from existing ones, need an interface in which you can view many notes together. This is the corkboard view of Scrivener, or what Obsidian supports with the partitioning of the screen. (It would often help to have a preview of the first lines of a note, for short notes this would already do help overseeing notes to find relations.
In DT, I have two windows for the markdown and its preview, wasting screen estate. Obsidian will soon avoid this with direct editing, which makes other markdown based apps appealing (e.g. Agenda), where the writing experience is a bit more âelegantâ.
I personally have not yet made proper or successful use of linking really and so I have not yet used a graphical representation of linked notes to my advantage. But this is surely my problem (e.g. of age) and I assume that there are people who make good use of it. DT has some graphical representation as well and the See also but how that works is not transparent and again, its somehow not so immediately available and customisable as in Obsidian.
Handling many notes is not always about storing or manipulating them. What I refer to is the use of DT for notetaking, where the notes should be used together to create something new. As the Feynman story from Sönke Ahrens explains, thinking as an external dimension, which is note taking. At present, I make full use of DT to store my notes but not to create notes from existing notes, as part of my thinking. This however is what some other apps are trying to support more actively.
Surely, there are elements of a hype that will settle but the ideas of notetaking and outlining will continue to be of interest, as they have been for decades now.
There is nothing new about this, only that I take notes now with my iPhone (suprising often) and having everything in sync across locations is something that is now possible and is used.
To my surprise, considering that I am really not so affine with every feature of my gadgets, I even used Drafts on my iPhone to take a note while walking the dog. This is not something I desperately want to do but in that situation it mattered and I talked to my iPhone, for the first time, and the transcribed text was made available on my Mac when I was at the computer in the evening. I have not done this since but it shows that things are now possible that may have a use. This does not mean that I expect DT to have such gimmicky functionality.
I made my case for more fundamental issue regarding outlining and synthesizing notes from existing notes and I guess you will now post again a screenshot of a bullet point list?
