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by CrypticShift·3y ago·view on hn ↗
"Advanced" Outliners are better suited because you can tag the blocks (=lines of text) and then query them independently.

Look at https://logseq.com/ or Emacs https://www.orgroam.com/ (or is org-mode enough ?). you will have to familiarize yourself with properties and querying syntax.

Edit : You can think of it like this: by simply jotting down a new line, you add a new entry in a DB. It does not matter that one line is an idea and the next one is a task, because, Later on, when you query your DB, you will get them regrouped as you like. Also, no more rigid forms : you only add the tags and properties that you need "on the fly".

I know logseq also supports plaintext (Markdown/Org-mode) and Recurring tasks

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I was looking to logseq but I found its recurring tasks to be unstable at times. Sometimes reindexing graphs invalidates all the dates and messes up the timeline.

Table creation using query, if it relies on properties, makes the block very ugly to work with and manage.

Child block support is not as great

And separating notes and tasks is quiet difficult without properties.

I need to look into orgroam but I will have to learn Emacs first.

Look at https://tana.inc/. It is still in early access preview (so no recurring tasks yet for exple), but it is more "elegant" in managing properties and queries.