welcome back to another key productive video today we'll be exploring obsidian versus rome versus
hypernotes today we're partnered with leading software comparison and review site capterra to
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my own knowledge to review these apps so let's dive in now all of these applications are great
personal note-taking apps and we're going to be reviewing it from that aspect in today's video so
let's start with availability now let's start off with hypernotes it's available on all platforms
including snapcraft and also linux which is not so common with productivity applications
obsidian on the other hand does have some great linux options too as well as a newly introduced
mobile version which is also available on ipad as well now rome is actually the application
that doesn't necessarily have as good of a lineup of platform availability they have currently mac
and windows as well as a web version so moving on to pricing hypernotes does have good free plan
however it does have some limitations example of those limitations is the two notebook limitation
and there are a few more but if you want to remove some of those limitations including
likes and notebooks then you're gonna be paying eight dollars per user per month for the pro plan
and they also have a business plan if you wanted to collaborate on notes in real time at 19
now obsidian is probably the best of these applications it's got a free
downloadable version which you don't ever have to pay for which is great news they set free forever
and as you can imagine they do have some paid upgrades which includes catalyst which is 25
upgrade but that's only for additional support and it gives you a badge when you're inside of
communities as well but they do have what's called a sync and a publish plan so if you wanted to
connect to your cloud uh network e to e encryption it's gonna cost you eight dollars per month but if
you wanted to publish say a digital garden it's gonna cost you sixteen dollars per month per site
now rome has more of the aggressive pricing with fifteen dollars per month there's a cheaper annual
pricing which does shave a little bit off or you can go for the crazy five year plan which is 500
if you're looking for a pretty wafty saving if you compare that to the 15 per month plan now let's
look at the features all of these applications really focus on that bi-directional linking
so being able to create a link between onenote and another and let those links sort of live together
and interact with each other as you continue to build your network now hypernotes has some
great linking and the one thing i'd say about this application is definitely easier to consume than
some of the other applications on the market in the bi-directional linking space you can connect
it to other zenkit tools as well they have zenkit suite which is a growing network of tools and also
if you did want to add real-time collaboration they have some great uh real-time editing inside
of this application which is perfect if you did want to collaborate with others it's called all
the regular stuff you'd expect like graphs and bi-directional links and it does have some really
nice features when it comes to bringing together notebooks in one place now obsidian on the other
hand is an offline application and if you've got the desktop version you can install it and
locally store everything although if you did want to you can use ete encryption to upload it using
the sync plan which is eight dollars per month but all in all you can create notes connect them
together and connect them to the graph as well so you can build a great knowledge base for you
and it's perfect on desktop and mobile it's a really reliable application now looking to roam
this is really quite a research application it's very much like obsidian in its features
although they have a much stronger community in my opinion actually they call it a cult however
rome has a great network of users and also they really do focus on what the users want to be
fixed inside of the application now as you can imagine in rome you can connect up things in a
high level of detail and also be able to use the graph to find things later on but it's really a
high level of knowledge to get started with this application so it's well worth reading
any guides and checking out some of the youtube channels like linking your thinking
which is a fantastic channel now as we go to the recommended who are these best for i would
probably say hypernotes is best for people who want bi-directional links without the high costs
behind it but also i like the fact that it's on web and be able to back up uh you know using uh
web and also it's a lot easier to understand in these other two applications like obsidian
and rome if you're looking at obsidian i would say this is probably best for people who use
desktop and mobile but want a more technical and detailed way for denotes to be taken especially
with a focus on local storage and security as they do do e2e encryption with the sync plan if you're
a rome user i would say this is probably the most specialist of the tools out here and it's really
for those who want to invest in the future of the rome app they have a fantastic community
that's more than willing to help and you can download some really cool plugins much like
you can an obsidian but they have a fantastic sort of community and api for that so folks hopefully
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