Obsidian Canvas vs Scrintal: how I use an infinite canvas in my zettelkasten

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0:00 - Infinite Canvases
2:11 - Obsidian Canvas
3:36 - Scrintal Boards
4:11 - Connections, Cards, Notes, Canvases, Boards
5:23 - How I use Obsidian
6:51 - How I use Scrintal
8:53 - Written vs Visual Projects
10:00 - Fiction writing in Scrintal
10:25 - Obsidian vs. Scrintal use
11:18 - Try Scrintal!

[@stephenzeoli8117]

Nice video, with an excellent explanation of the differences between Obsidian and Scrintal. I have been a fan of Scrintal since its early inception, but two things have held me back from committing to it: 1. They need to add a feature that allows you to export a whole board as one concatenated document. This may sound difficult, but Milanote has this feature, and it is huge. 2. They need to add the ability to label the links between cards. Obsidian's Canvas has this. So does Heptabase and Milanote. If Scrintal gets those two features, it will rule the world (no extra cost for the hyperbole).

[@kristiharman2843]

ooh, I love the idea of using them for different things. I like the idea of using scrintal for my creative endeavors and obsidian for my knowledge management

[@morganeua]

That's how I feel, anyway! I can't get my brain to work creatively in Obsidian, but I think it's because of how I set it up. And it's VERY useful for academic stuff

[@pleo624]

Thanks for the info! Have to looked into Heptabase yet? Similar to Scrintal, but with the supertag aspects that Tana has.

[@zia85]

I truly learn so much from your videos and thought process. Thanks for creating great stuff.

[@mintchip7178]

Best aspects of both I think you've highlighted. Common tags for continuity is useful. Always enlightening you are. Thanks again.

[@mitaahara1684]

Beautifully done!

[@BillPetro]

Morgan, excellent video about the differences between starting visually or textually. I too use both Obsidian and Scrintal.

[@shelby5725]

Congrats on your sponsorship!! Great video, too 🌻 would you ever consider making more vlogs? I love your approach to academia and writing and it’s cool to see what your days looks like that lead to your great insights and productivity. Also your writing sessions always reinspire me to get work done ❤

[@morganeua]

Great! Yes, I have been thinking lately I should do another vlog!

[@shelby5725]

yay!! I can't wait :) you're seriously my comfort youtuber @@morganeua

[@morganeua]

@@shelby5725 aaaaw, that's so cool. I totally have comfort KZbinrs, so it's neat that I get to be one to other people!!

[@rajanand9625]

You have an amazing book collection

[@KentShaw]

Thanks so much for the video! I've seen a few of your videos, and I really appreciate how you relate your academic life to these note-taking apps. I especially appreciate what you say here about Obsidian's knowledge map. It's helpful to draw interrelations, but the arbitrary pattern drawn each time you access it works against my own visual orientation. Like I would rather have a consistent placement for the items, as it might help me build my own conceputalizations. There are two open questions I have about mind-mapping. One, for personal knowledge, how do you negotiate larger and larger maps. Sometimes the distance between topics I want to show a relation between doesn't help me as much as I'd like. Second, for teaching purposes, do you use Scrintal for on-the-spot kinds of visualizations with students. I've been using Miro as a whiteboard. I wonder, though, if Scrintal might prove suitable. Thanks again for your perspective on Scrintal!

[@manofsteal2792]

as always very nice video , thanks for sharing

[@morganeua]

Thanks for watching!

[@feelswriter]

Pretty neat. It's like Obsidian + Scrindal.

[@kedrickadamsmusic]

Hi Morgan! Thanks so much for making this video. I'm thinking about getting Scrintal and I just wanted to know if it does embedded links like "#log/journal" and whether it makes separate boards for the groups in the "#log" tag or if it just makes one big board. Thanks!

[@ricardomego7895]

Great video, Morgan, thank you so much! So, would your workflow be: using Obsidian to capture and process information, following the Zettlekasten method. Only when you identify a specific project within that process in Obsidian, you go to Scrintal, convert the involved notes to the card format in Scrintal, and work on the infinite canvas until you have a final product. Is that correct? If so, how do you handle the new cards created in Scrintal within that process? Do you manually bring them back to Obsidian?

[@magnusmotor1364]

Thank you so much, Morgan: can you print or export graphs on Obsidian? Thank you.

[@rubenromeroruiz]

Greetings from México!!

[@timbushell8640]

Nice distinguisher between 'two' canvases... Just wished outlining within a project file in Obsidian was just as easy...

[@skipangel]

Hi Morgan. Can you share how you share notes between Obsidian and Scrintal? Is it just import/export? I would like to use Scrintal for initially brainstorming and creating related cards, but want to store them in my local vault where my PKM is in Obsidian.

[@morganeua]

In Scrintal there is an option to just import MD files. So, I just clicked that and selected my entire Obsidian vault :P I haven't yet moved anything from Scrintal into Obsidian, though

[@anthonyhoward4202]

@@morganeua Can you read/edit etc the same notes? In other words, does Scrintal also use .md format, and so can both Obsidian and Scrintal access the same data files?

[@sved-sh]

Scrintal is way behind Obsidian+plugins, not worth getting now

[@morganeua]

That's very fair. Although, I don't use many plugins on Obsidian, anyway 😂

[@angelrodriguez8714]

The structure is very different