Recently I heard that Arc from The Browser Company got Windows support with tab sync, so I decided to give it another try! It’s super convenient being able to switch between Windows and Mac and have the same tabs! It’s nice not having to jump through hoops to send links anymore because the tab is already there!
After that I did some research to learn about the best way to use Arc, and I learned that you’re supposed to find some web apps you like and pin them to the top of your sidebar. This got me thinking about Apple Notes! It’s really convenient from my Mac and iPhone, but it’s really annoying to use in Windows! I have to log into the website and then sit through the Advanced Data Protection delay every time!
So then I started looking into note taking apps and found Workflowy! It looks really cool! I like how the idea is that the entire app is just a huge bullet point list, and all of your notes are just zoomed in views of part of the list! Workflowy Basics has some really nice gifs that explain this better than I can! Workflowy is entirely browser based, so it fit into Arc really well.
…so then I decided to try Obsidian! I was about to tell my friend about Workflowy when I remembered that they told me about Obsidian a long time ago, but I had never seriously looked into it because I was happy with Apple Notes at the time. I was really surprised when I discovered that their underlying storage mechanism was just… a folder of plain text markdown files!
I was kind of frustrated with Apple Notes because it only offers PDF note exports, and a bit concerned about Workflowy storing all my notes on the cloud when it’s not even a big company like Apple, so the idea of just having my notes in a folder was pretty appealing to me! In fact, it worked out really well because sometimes I need to take notes about VRChat stuff, so I’ve been taking notes too with Sublime Text and… a folder of plain text markdown files!
So I guess I already have an Obsidian vault! Now I’m going to try an app that was specifically designed for it! ✏️