I’m considering to move from Obsidian to SuperNotes. Why should I do it? Is there someone here who did it? I really appreciate SuperNotes – a tried it last year – but I don’t know how to insert it in my study routine.
And a final question: is there some possibility to use the notes like flashcards?
I think you are onto something with Obsidian being the natural contender of Supernotes when it comes to personal knowledge management.
I strongly belief in the organization scheme in supernotes that comes with both links and parents.
I have never used Obsidian, but when using Roam, also graph-based, I did struggle to give meaning to my notes, and often ended up with a feeling of my insights merely floating in limbo instead of actually adding to my knowledge.
In supernotes, I have the ability to build a sound hierarchy, using parents, in order to put a piece of information into a context in which it matters to me - which is a big part of what constitutes learning, I guess. On top of that, I can still represent associations with links, just as with Obsidian.
I use mobile quite a lot, so for me, a second plus for Supernotes is the UX on mobile, which in my experience is superior to most other serious note making apps.
That being said, maybe more important than my personal reasons why to stick with Supernotes is another question. Why do you even consider migration away from Obsidian in the first place?
Thank you!
Your reply was important and elucidative in my decision. 
I’ve tried SuperNotes, as a kind of experiment, and a think it is more congruent with my study routine.
For exemple, when I’m reading a new book, I can create all my notes inside another one (that a call “reference note”).
It is easier to organize and, more important, to revise the content after.
The only question a have yet is about how to use colors. Maybe I will separate any type of note in colores (for instance: literature note = blue)
Anyway, thank you
I actually do indicate note types using color! I distinguish
Most systems I know have a similar structure, but it remains a matter of personal preference as of what typing is useful for you.
Finally, please have a look at my article on how to use the supernotes feature set consistently.
Great you consider supernotes as you new pkms! If you have any questions, keep posting them here.
I believe it is natural to compare note taking applications especially in the knowledge management space. The markdown support is great. There is a complete offering here for users that may not want to feel the psychology filling up an entire page (Obsidian).
So far, my impression of SN compared to Obsidian is that SN wants to offer you the best experience on a note card. This intentionality actually makes you think about what you are going to add onto the card or break up a topic into multiple cards. Using Tiago Forte’s CODE framework, this would cover Capture, Organize, and Distill. Compared to other applications, they build their applications on Capture and Organize and rely on the user to do the distilling which is where users end up with long pages with a lot of text and then get overwhelmed because they have to navigate via headings and backlinks.
I’m having a lot of fun reconstructing my knowledge within SN and appreciate the work from the dynamic SN duo. Looking forward to having more conversations related to SN in the knowledge management space (as an example a proper Readwise integration would be AMAZING!).
I’m unfamiliar with CODE or other new, trendy frameworks for note taking. But distilling tons of information for research, from academic notes (both handwritten and digital), etc., has always been a key aspect of learning. For people who utilize the Cornell Notes method of note taking, the card titles themselves are useful cues. The text in the body of the card would be nice and concise and perhaps structured within other cues like headings and subheadings, or blockquotes/callouts.
Do you have some tutorial about Cornell Method?
I originally learned the Cornell Notes method back in high school for handwritten note taking in class and subsequent review at home. There are many tutorials online, and as I described above it can easily be adapted for Supernotes.
Very insightful. Thank you for sharing your organizations.
I have a question. Do you ever use the graph views at all? Right now I’m struggling whether to use backlinks or parent cards to connect notes together
I use mine quite a lot to see connections between different notes or even how widespread some of my notes are. Here’s an edited screenshot of different ‘pockets’ of knowledge:
You’ll notice that “Meetings” is very widespread and linked, whereas “Ideas” is a lot more confined. You can also use View Depth to see different levels within a graph which is very helpful.
Definitely read Paradigm for using supernotes consistently if you’re trying to decide between card parents and card links.
I am also coming from Obsidian using it for research and note taking. But I stayed with SN, because of four aspects.
And yes, @freisatz ’ Paradigm, will help as @tobias mentioned.
I can very much relate with all of your points. Regarding 3), I think the effect you describe is a direct consequence of the card model, which in itself promotes a very functional way of taking notes. This goes beyond the physical metaphor.
Once you get the hang of atomic note taking, organizing information on this level becomes immensely powerful in terms of pkm, more so than linking notion pages, which reflect relations that are usually to coarse, and more so than the paragraph-based linking in some outliners, a functionality which very quickly creates a cognitive overload. Cards in Supernotes for me do hit a sweet spot at this 
You hit the nail on the head 
I swear to you, I’ve used so many different note taking apps. Obsidian, Notion, Trillium, Remnote, Clibu, the list could continue forever.
I think what I enjoy about Supernotes is:
I always would spend too much time on the other apps, especially obsidian and notion, to make things “look good.” Or, I’d spend way too much time trying to get some database or something working instead of ACTUALLY writing notes. It was a distraction.
As I’m starting to figure out “Collections” and then just the “Outlines”, I really am starting to love how SN let’s me kind of take charge in, do I want a massive collection, or do I want to use the outline feature like a folders feature. I don’t have to try and decide what obeject something needs to be, like Capacities.
I’m a nerd, and I love UI. If you have a crappy UI, I just won’t use it. SN is the first app I have been consistently using every day since I went unlimited. For me, that’s saying something.
I also don’t have to make my own sync option or whatever. I can use the desktop app, the webapp, the mobile app, and have all of the same features.
