Curious, trying out some different systems for organizing research materials. I will try: paper notebooks, Scrivener, Google Docs, Notion, Roam, Evernote, Dropbox Paper. What other systems should I try out?
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I don't think there's anything that really excels at the criteria you desire. Every GUI tool is much, much clunkier than org-mode for manipulation across many levels of abstraction. You'd have to accept trade-offs there to get rich media support.
I spent a while evaluating this space last year and ended quite frustrated. Bear made the best tradeoffs for me, but I’m still mad about it all the time; I still have to use paper and plaintext editors regularly; bluh.
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Also, in case you try out Bear: I don’t think it’s viable without its Alfred workflow (for rapid navigation). A tiling window management tool like Magnet is a necessary but poor substitute for emacs splits.
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Have you looked into org-roam? We're trying to replicate Roam Research ideas/features within org-mode, and we've had a measure of success. As a fan of your work on this matter, I'd love to hear your thoughts and work together.
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We haven't done a great job of publicising it, but I'll be presenting it at this year's on Nov 28. In the meantime, I've published a couple of tech demos on YouTube.
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