I’m here because I’m fleeing FuseBase, formerly known as Nimbus.
I run a small IT consulting firm (IT department turnarounds, infrastructure rebuild) and find that most notetaking applications don’t work well for tracking the information I collect and do not make it easy to share information with clients. FuseBase promised a good client portal and notetaking capability. TBH, they may still do so since I told them the application complexity broke me. Imagine how bad the UI must be if someone with decades of experience ranging from embedded systems through large-scale print management gave up and said fork that ship.
I have no illusions that logseq will completely do what I need, but it looks like it has a lot of nice capabilities, so I am going to give it a go and see if there’s some way I can export the markdown as HTML into a client portal.
[edit]…I just loaded the desktop app I found one serious problem that will keep me from using logseq. I have a mild hand disability and I can’t do much typing. I use speech recognition for all of my writing and speech recognition does not work with the desktop app. It kind of worked with the browser-based demo but is still lost a lot of the functionality Dragon provides.
Accessibility failure is far too common… Sometimes it seems like the only application works with Dragon is Microsoft Word…
Have you tried dictating on a mobile device? On Android, voice memos get transcribed, and on Apple, voice-to-text works well.
When taking a note in the field, I can open the journal, say the date, and then write a few notes.
Like Kirk, “09:32 Replying to a Boston Logseq user, suggesting using the mobile application for notes with the phone native text-to-speech. {New Line}”
A speech UI is more than dictation, although that is 80% of my use case. The rest is correcting/editing what I spoke. My note length is measured in hundreds of words, which makes editing/correction by speech critical. The two best SR tools are Dragon and Aqua. Aqua is a new player that uses AI as a backend. It is currently having some teething pains, but it is worth trying.
Agreed. I used Dragon Natural Speaking for years. Millions of words were dictated and transcribed. The big challenge I had as a publisher was notation.
That’s why I do an audio presentation when mobile or even record a podcast about the concept in the field. The phone is too small to type any more than a sentence.
I typically capture an outline in notes, record long-form if the topic warrants, and then someone edits from the transcript.
Thanks for mentioning Aqua. I was tearful watching the demo. What I saw could help me organize concepts into outlines with less manual editing.