Next Release Update?

Remnote is great, but it needs a more user friendly interface. There must be a way to create a mindmap like map of data. See thebrain.com for an example. I use TheBrain and Remnote because they each offer something I can’t get in both. When Remnote offers a fast way to visually reference all my rems and information, it will kill a couple of my other subscriptions. There is no single improvement that will make remnote more popular and user friendly than creating a visually simple and organic reference map of information. I attached an example from TheBrain.

Please make this a priority.



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I didn’t know thebrain.com . RemNote already has a map view and that will be improved in the future I guess…but yeah @Gabriel you gave me an idea. These days I’m working on my study methods, it includes taking notes, spaced repetition, active recall and using mind maps. If RemNote could allow to create Mind Maps inside the program itself it would be awesome. I’m thinking of mind maps with text and images (optional but useful for visual memory). Now if we take this and also allow to link any node of the mind map to actual rems, then I have no words ahahah…it would become an unbeatable software…is it something you’ll consider? I consider RemNote as a specialised program for students and I would like that it would keep this vision forever, because that is was sets RemNote apart from other programs…an all in one integrated solution @Karthikk . Since we are talking about mind maps, other things that could be included would be concept maps and linear diagrams. I even have another idea. It would be great if RemNote would add the possibility to create a rem type organised according to the Cornell Method that you can choose when you create a new Rem…it would be just a matter of making a Rem divided in 3-4 parts that users could fill in while taking notes…a header, a part for actual notes, a part for questions or keywords and a part for summary…then students could elaborate those and make the final version of their written notes or make diagrams.

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" I consider RemNote as a specialised program for students and I would like that it would keep this vision forever, because that is was sets RemNote apart from other programs…an all in one integrated solution."

I could not agree more. But every student alive wants such a program to be as easy to use as possible.
I’m asking that the developers take Remnote from Dos to Windows. Remnote is currently a very dry text based interface or a scattered map of dots.

Using images from TheBrain above only as an example, I want to point out how incredible it is to view the information we need to study and remember in a VISUAL and CONTEXTUAL way.

I’m suggesting a similar visual map of our remnote learning library, that allows us to see the contextual information linked to the REM we are viewing. A system that automatically focuses on key learning points, but shows all related REM or at least related categories of information in the same view.

But keep the fantastic power Rem-note is offering to memorize and review all the nooks and corners of the map. When you need to review certain REM, you are signaled by the Rem-map. Every point on the map has a review alarm built in. The Rem-data points flash or something. You click those flashing REM on your map and review them.
So all your information is organized in a fluid, beautiful map, appealing to the eye…

Build a mind-map that displays your learning library, and allows you to memorize and review all the data contained there in, without using a hideous dos like structure of directories. Its also cross platform, usable on both PC and Ipads, etc. But keep the power of Rem-note’s existing features. That is the next level. Whoever gets their first has my subscription.

Just brainstorming below…
Open your Rem-map.
Open a Rem-Cat (a category like anatomy)
Open or create a Rem-note. (What are the chambers of the heart)
Open or create Rem-lets. Sub data points attached to a Remnote. ( Information about each chamber of the heart)
From that Remnote, link Horitzontally to other questions about the heart. Or move up one Rem-cat to a different organ in the body, or to a different Rem-Class (an entirely different area of study like Astronomy)
But every box or bubble on the Rem-map… Every Rem-let, Rem-note, etc. is a flashcard with a spaced repetition system built in.
However it is all organized VISUALLY. We are visual creatures. When any process becomes visual, it becomes superior. Youtube is a classic example oh how popular organic/visual learning is. Most people would rather learn from youtube than from a page of dry text instructions.

Anyway, my suggestion is probably far to much work for the developers and would probably require a complete overhaul. But it would rule the world.

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To be clear, folders and documents are only there to populate the sidebar and limit the breadcrumbs in the queue, there is absolutely no reason to stick to them as primary organisation methods. Conveniently, this links up to your graph point: the more link-first you go, the less readable that graph would become. Some software handles it better than others (Obsidian), but RemNote’s graph view is considered to be in early stages at the moment. That said, even now you can annotate edges by adding a descriptor front to a reference, and I’m sure other improvements are on the way.

Definitely a bit silly to try to make everything visual for the sake of it - after all, it will still be mostly text notes and flashcards.

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UMNiK “Definitely a bit silly to try to make everything visual for the sake of it - after all, it will still be mostly text notes and flashcards.”

Critics said almost exactly the same thing about the Windows operating system.

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It just seems unwise to spend dev time on extra presentation features when there is so much left undone as far as the core text database functionality is concerned - queries, tables, integrating the SRS part with the wiki features…

I admit I am biased in this regard, as I firmly believe in text being the fundamental medium of thought and creating dense networks of it that attempt to mirror the internal thought processes, which would be problematic at best to parse into a neat graph, but the relative popularity of pure mindmapping apps compared to the recent explosion of hierarchical notebooks seems to support me in this.

Of course, in the future it would be nice to get a more freeform environment a la Milanote (see Arbitrary number of panes and the ability to arrange them freely), but I dread to imagine the amount of time that would take to get done. My guess is, polishing the graph view and exposing it to Custom CSS is the best we can hope for in the immediate future as far as visual thinking is concerned.

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Hey Jude! Thanks for the kind words :slight_smile:

Table Building is going to be one of our major projects moving forward (after the redesign), so that means it will not be released along with the redesign unfortunately. Sorry about that! Nevertheless, it’s on our high priority list.

Thanks for bringing this up! I couldn’t agree more. I use TheBrain myself for some of my explorations, alongside RemNote, only because I enjoy using the Plex. I think it allows us to discover more connections between our thoughts, and we have been researching into such possibilities for RemNote as well.

We agree that text is just one medium of thought, and moving forward we would like to support all the popular mediums for thought (drawing, spatial arrangement/canvases, tables/data view, concept maps/relationship maps, etc.,) We don’t have a timeline for when we would be able to support all of this, but yes we do consider them as essential for life long learning :slight_smile:

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Super excited – thanks Karthikk

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I have similar Concerns, soon has been used for way too long, and a specific date is still not available.
I am seeing features that were requested back in October 2020, with decent number of votes (17) which i consider basic and exist in every other app. search and replace function for example.
It seems like an abandoned app.

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How many of those 11 team members are developers? I know of 1+1/2 (Martin and a part-time Hannes)?

So tldr, out of the 8 months (and counting), 4 were mostly about “company bootstrapping”, 2 about hiring, and the last 2 were already back to the new regular development pace, of which we’ll see the results “real soon”.

we used this leeway to quickly catch up with design (UI and UX) related issues

25% of it.

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among several other bugs, now my remote desktop doesn’t sync to the cloud. Last sync, according to the program, was 15 hours ago. Since this morning I’ve been trying to sync, but nothing! The way is to use the local version and save my backups on a pendrive. When I open the web version, the REMs I added are not synced.

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Can someone please change the name of this thread to “Next Release Update (Request)”? Every time it comes up I think it’s finally here. :rofl:

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when is going to be the Next update? September already :frowning:

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Kindly check your inbox :wink:

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thank you very much!! :grinning:

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Anyone able to download the latest update? I can access the alpha.remnote website but no luck downloading the updated app.

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when is going to be the Next update?

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It will arrive within two weeks to all user…
You can peek here RemNote | Alpha Server

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WOW
It looks pretty good.

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