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This is what I call an outliner-database hybrid. FYI, many note-taking apps are going in this direction.

- Tana.inc (closed alpha) introduced the concept of supertags [1], equivalent to what this app calls meta tags

- Remnote.com also added editable tables [2] to its outlines not long ago (only in the paid version).

- Logseq.com is planning such an addition soon.

It is a powerful combo because it combines two very primary ways of interacting with data: the tree (outliner) mode and the grid (table/DB) mode.

So for me, this could be an alternative to logseq as OSS/local. It seems promising, I hope it will continue to grow.

[1] https://tana.inc/docs/supertags [2] https://help.remnote.com/en/articles/8118336-tables

Capacities too. But I feel like Notion is easier to maintain in the end and has the databases with linked records and you can do lots of stuff with that... not sure why Notion gets so much hate.

Yeah, they both have DBs, and you can kind of outline inside pages. The difference is that, technically, in a "real outliner", each "node" (or line) is (by default) a different entry in the database, whereas in page-based apps (Capacities/Notion), it is the whole page.

Capacities is partially going in this direction. Notion, less so, but it is simple and advanced (linked records...) and hence a favorite of mine too.