[rambl3r]

I've been trying on and off to give Arc a try for the past few months. I've had trouble for all the reasons that the linked article names.

What brought me around was the Easel feature for scrapbooking pieces of multiple web pages onto a single page. For some kinds of research, being able to see everything at once beats anything I've been able to do with multiple tabs or window arrangements. I used to arrange screenshots onto a photo editor's canvas, but doing it in-browser is an easier workflow, and Arc makes it easy to get back from the clipping to the source.

I believe that Beam is similar to this feature, except (pro) better support for daily notes, and (pro and/or con) clippings are in a list instead of arranged in 2D.

That fact that these blocks can optionally be live also makes it useful for constructing ad-hoc dashboards.

[1] "Arc | Collect Your Internet with Easel" https://youtu.be/ukquBSOpmTk