Xara Designer Pro+ questions about desktop publishing and note taking features

[Jonopen]

Jon, here's a heavy example: https://publish.obsidian.md/myaiba/

Most Obsidian Vaults are running locally. There is no need to publish if it if you your own use.

Another example - https://notes.philoserf.com/Index.

Hope the offers a flavour of its richness.

Acorn

Thanks for those links Acorn, I'll take a good look.

For the past few years I've been using mind maps (SimpleMind) to keep track of text notes, ideas, links and other bits and pieces, but it's good to look at alternatives.

[Acorn]

Thanks for those links Acorn, I'll take a good look.
For the past few years I've been using mind maps (SimpleMind) to keep track of text notes, ideas, links and other bits and pieces, but it's good to look at alternatives.

Jon, I did all my Master's notes will handrawn Mindmaps and had been using Buzan's approach for over a decade before.
I bought into MindManager for about 10 years but it palls in comparison to drafting a MM by hand.
That got expensive so I moved to FreeMind, stable v1.0.1 and bet2 2 v1.1.0, running under Java for nigh on universal.

In between I discovered TiddlyWikis and got hooked on Markdown and eventually found Obsidian.

Acorn

[bwood]

Thanks for those links Acorn, I'll take a good look.

For the past few years I've been using mind maps (SimpleMind) to keep track of text notes, ideas, links and other bits and pieces, but it's good to look at alternatives.

Acorn converted me Jon. Love it. Passwords, notes, very fast search. It’s also free. Cross platforms is where they make a buck, but you can always make a vault and open it on another rig. I really like it. I do still use google keep as a cross platform, but Obsidian is the best I’ve seen.