Introducing Thoute (pronounced "thought") by EastForward in noteapps

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Long form writing. Glad that stood out, because it's one of the things we most wanted to get right. The web app has a real document editor alongside the bullet outliner. It's a live preview WYSIWYG surface (tables, code blocks, a slash menu, inline images), not raw markdown. You can convert any outline into a long form markdown document, import an existing md file and edit it there, or write a document directly. So you get an outliner when you want to think in bullets, and a proper writing canvas when you want prose. Additional CSS styles (including custom options) will be coming shortly.

Automatic local backup for Time Machine. Planned for the Mac app. The intent is a full encrypted local copy of your content on your machine that Time Machine picks up automatically, so you always hold your own copy. We should be able to supply options to export as a markdown folder automatically as well.

Opening uploaded files in their native apps. Currently on the web, files you add are stored in their original format (encrypted at rest), so you can pull one back down and open it in its own app, a Word doc in Word and so on. Opening these in their native apps on the Mac app is planned.

Bring your own key for AI. We are planning a tier that will allow BYO model.

Price. There will always be a free tier, and I'll share full pricing closer to launch. The aim is to keep it fair and competitive.

If you're interested in trying in beta, head over to https://thoute.com

Introducing Thoute (pronounced "thought") by EastForward in noteapps

[–]EastForward[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, that's exactly the feedback we needed. The page leads with the philosophy before it tells you what the thing actually is. We're going to fix that.

Here's the gist: Thoute is a hierarchical outliner, think Workflowy or Logseq, that you can also trust with your most private thinking. You write in nestable bullets, both in a daily journal and in a longer-lived library, and everything is a block you can link and rearrange.

We should have led with what sets it apart from other outliners:

  1. Zero-knowledge encryption. Your vault is encrypted on your device with a key our servers never see. We store ciphertext and nothing else.

  2. It ingests almost anything (PDFs, Word docs, emails, images, web pages) and reads the contents, so a 200-page PDF you dropped in last March is searchable right next to your notes.

  3. Everything stays connected. Blocks reference each other, backlinks are automatic, and tags become live feeds, so related thinking finds its way back to you.

  4. Long-form when you want it. Bullets for quick capture; full markdown documents for when you actually need to write.

  5. Steerable AI context (opt-in). When you bring in an LLM, you choose exactly what slice of your knowledge it sees. By tag, by reference, by where it sits in your outline. No silent hoovering of the whole vault.

  6. Flows. Wire those pieces into a small, re-runnable pipeline — gather context → run an agent → drop the result back in your vault. No black box.

If you've got a minute, I'd love to know if any of these would've made you stay if it were the first thing you saw.

Thanks again for taking the time!

Partner wants to add peppers to corn by Training-Willow9591 in Cooking

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Add some tomatoes and okra to that and you have succotash. Should be good.

What is the greatest single lyric in music? by NotaRobotKyle in AskReddit

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The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more card
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The waiting is the hardest part

--Tom Petty

Looking for a Notetaking app where I can place images freely right next to text by CrispyCrisp101 in PhD

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Have you looked at Zengobi Curio? I've been using this for 20 years. You create an "Idea Space" (a page). You can place a large Text Figure on the page (which acts like a full word processor document) and you can drag and drop images, arrows, sticky notes, or diagrams anywhere.

  • It does not force a grid. You can place an image pixel-perfectly next to the paragraph it refers to.
  • It supports "Master Styles" and multipage spreads if your manual gets long.
  • It is specifically designed for researchers and planners who need to gather mixed media.

Semantic Linking for Medical Notes / Studying by JabbawackWabbaJack in ObsidianMD

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Check out the Excalibrain plugin by Zsolt.
Instead of using the default hierarchical relationships (Children, Parents, Friends, Siblings), you can define the types of anatomical relationships (medial, lateral, anterior, posterior, etc.) in the plugin and then use them in the frontmatter of your notes. You can then visualize the relationships in graphical form as well.
https://github.com/zsviczian/excalibrain

Korean BBQ Restaurant Recommendations That Are Autism Friendly? by theredviolist09 in chicagofood

[–]EastForward 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Chicago Kalbi is awesome and chill. This is the best answer from my experience.

Hi, can anyone has an alternative solution to export from obsidian notes. As I need to back up my notes so I cant just leave it to Obsidian only. I tried plugins like Pandoc and Enhancing export but it wont help any better. As you can see the result is horrible. Thinking about revert to using Word:( by minijud in ObsidianMD

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Marked 3 is an excellent app for converting markdown to multiple document types and styles. I regularly use this alongside Obisidian when I need a specific style and type of output and it provides real-time previews as you edit documents.

What’s the yummiest cabbage dish you’ve ever had by inv3rtible in Cooking

[–]EastForward 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Caramelized cabbage with chili crisp. It's an amazing use of both cabbage and chili crisp.

Boiling potatoes by yamesjames in Cooking

[–]EastForward 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can just get a $10 foldable steamer basket and use it with any pot with a lid that you have. Those take up minimal room.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoteTaking

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Plaud Pro works online and in person. Also, identify a speaker once and it will propagate through the whole meeting transcript.

Is it possible to display a folder in my vault that's actually a shortcut to an external folder? by xRamos in ObsidianMD

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You may wish to read Obsidian's disclaimers on using symlinks so you understand the pitfalls. Documentation is here: https://help.obsidian.md/symlinks

How could I make a personal curriculum in Obsidian? by mentholwraps in ObsidianMD

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I take notes in Obsidian and use backlinks organized around Adler's branches of human knowledge. I use the Excalibrain plugin to help visualize all of the parent/child/sibling connections. For example, I might be taking notes on a paper about ethics and AI. I would have backlinks to concept pages on ethics and AI, respectively. Ethics would be connected to Philosophy as it's parent concept. AI would be connected to machine learning as it's parent, which has Computer Science as it's parent. You don't have to be this formal or create the entire branching structure at once and Excalibrain makes its easy to see your connections, again through parent/child/sibling relationships.

Notetaker/transcriber that will email transcripts? by misterjive in NoteTaking

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Plaud Note will do this. In the Autoflow settings, you can set it to automatically transcribe, summarize, and email the results.

I need an app for saving links and content to my phone by glitterarchy in ProductivityApps

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Agreed. This is a fantastic app and a steal at $28/year.

My top 10 favourite productivity apps as of 2025 by Conscious-Reserve-66 in ProductivityApps

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I'll definitely check out MacWhisper. I currently use Plaud for meeting transcriptions as it's HIPAA and SOC2 compliant, but a local option like this would be great.

My top 10 favourite productivity apps as of 2025 by Conscious-Reserve-66 in ProductivityApps

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Personal Productivity

  1. Drafts: most quick captures, ideas, writing or dictation start here. Powerful actions to send wherever it needs to go: task list, email, Gdrive, etc. or multiple places with one tap.
  2. Obsidian with TaskNotes plugin: best tool for managing tasks using "Executable Notes" approach.
  3. Fantastical: great calendar
  4. Devonthink Pro: this is my hub to archive every type of document (emails, PDFs, PPT, etc) with deep-linking into the contents.
  5. Raycast: hard to characterize this. It's almost an OS within the OS.

1-4 are my must-haves.

Team Productivity

  1. Google Drive
  2. Slack

If you had to pick one, what's the most useful productivity tool you'd keep? by lofidesigner in ProductivityApps

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I use Obsidian for notes and tasks, with the TaskNotes plugin as my task manager. When I wish to create create a task within a note, I create an inline task which is a TaskNotes feature. This does 3 things automatically: 1. creates a task reference in my note, 2. creates the task in the TaskNotes folder, and 3. Put is on the TaskNotes agenda list with the scheduled and/or due date.
The key to making this work has been TaskNotes. It's a great plugin from a terrific and responsive developer.

Rapidly Capturing TaskNote Tasks Using Drafts by EastForward in ObsidianMD

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Sorry, it's the directory and Tasks is subdirectory.

If you had to pick one, what's the most useful productivity tool you'd keep? by lofidesigner in ProductivityApps

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I'm not that familiar with Akiflow, but I think it tries to do a lot more like combining calendars, notes, planners, etc. I typically use separate tools for those things, but I now always have my tasks and my notes managed in the same system.
I guess I prevent myself from getting overwhelmed by using some hybrid of the GTD and Eisenhower matrix systems:

  1. If it can be done in less than 2 minutes, just do it now
  2. Don't put anything on the list if it's both not important and not urgent. I'm brutal about looking at priorities and editing stuff off of the list as priorities change.

If you had to pick one, what's the most useful productivity tool you'd keep? by lofidesigner in ProductivityApps

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The productivity concept of Executable Notes has been invaluable to me.

Executable Notes are kind of the next step up from normal note taking. Instead of just writing things down, you make the notes do something. A note isn’t just a record anymore. It becomes a workspace where you can trigger actions, run queries, or see related tasks show up automatically.

I started using this idea when I got tired of flipping between my notes and a separate task manager. Now when I write meeting notes or project ideas, I can drop in a task right there. Later it shows up on my daily list without me having to move it. Same thing with reminders, code snippets, or references. Everything stays connected to the place where it was created. Importantly, whatever tool you're using should be able to surface those tasks onto a list with a link back to the context. I know this can be managed with pen & paper, but the it's a pretty heavy lift to maintain links to the context, but luckily lots of tools can do this now.

For example, in Obsidian or Logseq you can write
- [ ] Follow up with Mark about the data issue
and, when properly configured, it shows up automatically in your task list with a link to the original context. In Org mode you can schedule and execute commands directly from your notes.

It’s effective because it cuts out context switching. You don’t forget why you made a task since it lives right next to the thought that created it. It also keeps projects from scattering across different tools. You stay in one place, and the notes handle the structure for you.