[taumoeba]

Cool project! I’ve been using a Notion database for exactly this problem. The only feature I can see from a quick glance that this has and Notion doesn’t is quickly exporting to browser bookmark format. Any other cool features I’m missing?

[rdavidr]

Notion Databases are neat! I’m not familiar with them, I just glanced over some of the documentation. I think its safe to say Notion Databases would let you create your own Linkidex (or your own todo list app, or your own food macro tracking app, etc) as long as you are willing to spend the time building and maintaining it, which you must if you have already put in the work!

May I ask what made you choose notion vs any alternative? Do you like having complete control over the shape of your data, do you like the UI, or is there something else about it?

[taumoeba]

Notion is an interesting tool because it’s so general-purpose and flexible. In the past I used different tools for bookmarks, notetaking, project organization, recipes, reading lists, etc. I got tired of everything having different UI and features and ended up moving all of that to Notion.

I think the main features that led me to choose Notion were:

- Fully cross-platform (web, desktop, mobile)

- Browser extension (PC & Mobile) to quickly save pages to any database

- Ability to create searchable databases with custom fields, tags, multiple views, and other advanced features

- Ability to easily move an item from one database to another, for example moving an article from “Reading List” to “Saved Articles”

- Every database entry is also a page, so an entry in “Saved Articles” can have notes or links to other similar articles

- Very easy to share a database or page, similar to Google Drive

Of course, it’s not without its problems. Because it’s so general-purpose, it can feel unfocused and clunky at times. There are also concerns with having so much data in one tool, and it took a while to get everything set up. But being able to use the same tool to bookmark an interesting article to read later, do my finances, and find a favorite recipe for dinner has been a great experience.

It is of course fully possible that there’s a better alternative that I’ve missed, but it’s served me well so far.

[rdavidr]

thanks for all of this info!