hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel today uh what i wanted
to do is check out a first impressions feature on an app called thunk notes and uh i love the name
to start off with it's quite an interesting approach it to sort of like the naming uh
process and normally people go with like sort of names these days but i quite like thunk as a name
they're calling it the modern daily thinking tool and i would say it's probably closer to being a
comparison with sort of like a a a slightly less powerful version of obsidian in rome but also
sort of in the boat of this new sort of market like clover craft these sort of applications so
i thought give it a go as you can see this is a website something you'll need to know with this
app first is that it does have a 30-day free trial but you do have to commit to one of the plans
that they have let me tell you what the plans are before you begin so you don't get sort of
overwhelmed in like what options are available here they are so it's the there's a 12 per month
plan which is pretty pricey there's a 96 dollar per year plan which is eight dollars per month
which isn't crazy if you paid full price evernote it would probably work out the same not that
they're completely different applications but just giving you an idea for sort of pricing and they
have a five-year plan which is 360. again this is more common with apps like standard rom research
where you're paying larger sums up front so i've been playing around with it and i wanted to give
you some thoughts um the application in itself what i think they're sort of doing differently
with it is the sort of the templatizing process of it is actually pretty impressive um and the
way that they set up as well as the sort of the the simplicity around the application
and that's i think what is different about it let me show you so as you can see this is my
thunk account as you can imagine it looks very similar to all of the other applications
in structure one thing i noticed is there's sort of a more differentiation between commands so a
slash command will give you sort of the regular inserting type blocks so you can do headers lists
like a to-do list and decorations as well like code blocks and quotes and inserting media you
can also insert templates which i'll come to in a moment as well as twitter which i haven't yet set
up but i'm sure has some sort of capability to reference a tweet or something like that
but it's got this feature which i'll probably actually might touch on in the middle of this
video that does focus mode which is actually something that i found a little bit different
to some of the other applications and some of the actually very impressive i think for writers
so let's go back and let's create a heading two and i could say uh this is my day today one
thing i did know as well is that it was actually fairly fast even being on safari i found that the
experience has actually been fairly snappy um and quite easy to do the one thing you can do is slash
command to do there are shortcuts for all of these but i haven't actually learned them yet but for
example if i did say like clean fridge i don't know and what i can do is go to this to-do area
and just move myself out the way you can see that these are your tasks for the day and i quite like
that because it's almost like a just a zoom in view of your tasks for the day and it's built in
without any third party application having to sort of be installed and prepared for you to get that
if you were to say link something so if i would go over here and at mention thunk notes
i i didn't create one i thought i created one earlier i think i deleted it for the example if i
created a page called thunknotes you can see that it automatically links there allowing you to start
creating a not just like having the link there but also start typing away on that note there
and you can also pin the note as well which means it goes to the top of this links area so
you can have multiple threads going down as and multiple sort of notes being made so what's nice
is if you're journaling and you're writing down about your books that you're reading
on today and what you learned specifically you could for example have threads based on that
which is quite nice and you can remove that toggle if you want as well i quite i just thought that
was quite normal in terms of the way that they've done that now let me touch on the the app links
so the app links obviously bring up dates and notes but you can link like to today and things
like that so obviously those pages will come up on the right hand side and what you can do
as well is you can link to timestamps which is really nice so say i wanted to do my journal
in the morning time steps come up and they're very quite clear-cut in you know showing the
the time stamp and giving you a label this might be helpful for journaling but also for your notes
across the day to differentiate them on when you took the time and what's nice as well is
for example let's say you're planning a meeting at 11 17 you could say this is my meeting notes
for them which i think is pretty cool in my opinion and that's just something that i guess
makes them a little bit different to the others so templates let me show you it so if i type in
insert template i created one for week review so as you can see it's very much like mem to some
extent you can paste the template into an existing note and it literally appears allowing you to fill
that in and templates are available over here and it looks like you can create as many as you want
one problem i noticed is that these buttons maybe it's a safari version but these buttons
are aren't very well produced although obviously they work they're not necessarily the most um well
put together buttons as you can see here there's some example templates and what's cool as well
look i got the data error there what's cool as well is oh that's weird so there's a trouble
loading your data make sure you're connected to the internet pretty sure i am but again it's a
little bit temperamental today so i might give it a pause there but the the one thing i saw in
the demo i don't know that was on the main website you can see here that when you started your today
area you can see all of these different notes uh appear up here so that's the benefit of the
the process of having all of these links up here so if you did start a journal then you can have
all these elements or questions to ask yourself during the day and regular things that pop up
with those templates when they get started so quite interesting in in approach now the thing i
want to show you that i thought was quite novel was if i type in focus mode you see this page
comes up and it's quite interesting so if i'm like okay i need that sort of zone in to write
and i'm i'm like i'm writing something specific what it does is it brings into this lovely mode
where you're not disturbed by pretty much anything and as you type so i could just continue typing
you can see that it disappears and sort of makes it really focused on the typing experience and
you can exit that and you can if you want tick i better take that off i assume that means like
that that's been dealt with and done but that focus mode is is something that does differentiate
it from on the other applications you can go about adding stuff for favorites and being able to use
the explore function explore function works very much like obsidian and rome to some extent much
as a little bit more like hypernotes but you can see here that you can bring and start
actual notes from there and you can be able to interact with them which is decent and that's
pretty something that's going to take you a bit of time it's saving you time there and you can set up
whether you want daily notes included or whether you want orphans set up and search the graph as
well you can search in general just using the search bar and there's recents down here in
recent notes and you can create a new note anytime here so i would say the the thing that makes this
special is the elements like the fact that you can use the today area and these links appear
that are already linked in there which means you can have like multiple threads going on which is
something you already have inside of apps like obsidian and rome which means you you have to
sort of learn the setup for them and you've also got to do here which sort of clear-cuts
cleans all of this like you could have a really messy today area but the to-do's are quite clear
and quite simple but what you need to get done for the day so i like a lot of the things that are
inside this application i think it's a thunk it's very early days i think i think that they they
obviously need to continue growing and maybe that was an issue with the stability side of stuff but
it's been interesting to see them on twitter i think one thing that stands out as well is
their branding really nice really different really like sort of community focused i think
so i'm gonna keep an eye on this one and you can see here some of the examples ah okay so you
can actually tweet through thunk that's how the twitter integration works i i thought it was just
an example link tweet and reference but you can actually tweet uh like a thread through funk thunk
which is really cool that's actually a little bit different their website if you're viewing on
safari is quite heavy but anyway folks i thought that was a an interesting application that might
help you find a notetaker early days for thunk notes but not bad start um fairly impressed early
days obviously 30-day free trial is pretty decent pricing is a little bit higher the experience is
decent for what you get although obviously i think they've got a long way to go in terms of adding
and reshuffling and building up the main experience anyway folks i hope you enjoyed
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