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I've played with Craft a bit and it's been a joy to use so far. Conceptually it sits between Apple Notes and Notion. You get native apps that work offline, sup
by minouye 6y ago
I've played with Craft a bit and it's been a joy to use so far.
Conceptually it sits between Apple Notes and Notion. You get native apps that work offline, support fast capture, and are satisfying to use. You also get the wiki-style support and block-level editing of Notion, along with lots of other nice Notion visual flourishes (page-level icons, cover images, etc.)
One area Craft really shines, is the way that it supports interactive, sharable documents. If I have text, images, files, and want to combine them all into a single page/starting point, Craft makes this super simple.
Here are some examples (which you could design on your own):
https://www.craft.do/s/VIAC9BTTJWdCxp https://www.craft.do/s/VIAC9BTTJWdCxp
https://www.craft.do/s/09fqwC5rGqErmB/b/F19F87F2-0F04-49F9-912E-6B7785CBD84B/We_didn%E2%80%99t_see_this_coming_-_Nine https://www.craft.do/s/09fqwC5rGqErmB/b/F19F87F2-0F04-49F9-9...
https://www.craft.do/s/09fqwC5rGqErmB/b/9041969E-127C-4439-A8B6-5469F4F00F0A/1997_Letter_To_Shareholders https://www.craft.do/s/09fqwC5rGqErmB/b/9041969E-127C-4439-A...
- ipsum2 6y agoThanks, its strange that they didn't include this demo on their website.
- samat 6y agoWow this shit is fast, even on mobile web!
- bertmuthalaly 6y agoWait wait wait notion but fast? OK I’m signing up
- veidr 6y agoLOL I pay for a Notion personal plan and that was my exact thought. Speed matters!
- the_arun 6y agoEvernote also does similar stuff, right? What is new? Sorry I haven't tried Craft myself yet.
- minouye 6y agoI actually came across Craft in the Evernote subreddit. Compared to the latest Evernote client (v10), speed of the clients would be biggest difference. Both support note taking and sharing, but the polish of Craft is definitely noticeable.
- justusthane 6y agoI haven’t used Evernote in years, and granted I was pretty fed up with it when I left. Maybe Evernote has changed since then? But, compared to the Evernote I remember... - Block level editing - Backlinks - Publish to web - Better support for embedding different types of content Notion/Craft are really in a whole different league compared to Evernote.
- SamBam 6y agoI've been trying to switch to Notion from Evernote, and I'm having a hard time. I really liked that Evernote could be a shoebox where I put all my random PDFs, receipts, user manuals, etc, alongside a smaller number of evergreen notes. I haven't found that same shoebox aspect to Notion, which I think is by design, because people believe it to be an antipattern. But every time I want to save something, it needs to be need in some kind of database or as a subdocument to another document, and that's just not how I think of those things.
- justusthane 6y agoAgreed. That’s something I struggle with with Notion as well. I use Bear for that currently (Apple-only though). Edit: although I guess one solution would be to create a “Shoebox” page in Notion of the “List” type.
- joshuanapoli 6y agoEvernote has a flat list of notes, usually ordered by time. I find related notes by searching. Craft lets me build a tree of nested documents. I imagine that the tree structure would encourage more thought upfront in placing new content into relevant context. It looks like Craft is probably less buggy than the latest Evernote apps.
- srimukh 6y agoThe interface reminds me of Andy Matuschak's notes https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes