From Notion

Follow along this guide to understand Memotron’s design and concepts from the lens of a Notion user.

Concept mapping

Below is a concept map of Notion when compared to Memotron.

Notion → Memotron

Databases → Typed collections

Pages → Markdown nodes

Relation property → Linking

Notion side bar → Combination

Notion Calendar → Calendar (planned: v0.62+)

What you will get switching to Memotron?

  1. Intuitiveness of information architecture and relationship management. You can learn more about our architecture here.

  2. Extremely intuitive capture.

  3. Full offline version and full featured free offline version.

  4. Media like images, audio, web pages, clips as first class information which is linkable and browsable.

  5. Advanced clipping - direct linking, clipping on various platforms and sources like text clipping, screenshot, youtube clipping, properties capture, relationship capture via link tags.

  6. Nodularity - granular direct linking at source to a specific part of markdown.

  7. First class audio recording capture, transcription and audio to markdown.

  8. PDF nodes, PDF annotation and linking.

  9. Type features: Type extension, multi type nodes, universal property.

  10. Command bar, command mode.

  11. More planned items. Check here.

  12. Cutting down costs of

    1. Using other advanced clipper apps.

    2. Using other audio apps for audio capture and transcription.

    3. Using other PDF annotator apps for pdf clipping.

    4. Buying Notion templates.

  13. More peace of mind

    1. Almost zero setup fatigue

    2. Avoiding round trip capture.

    3. Organizing everything in one place.

    4. Intuitiveness of a tool solely made for personal use - not for businesses.

  14. A product produced by an organization that is backed by passion for building and triple bottom line as a priority.

What will you lose switching from Notion?

  • Free cloud sync base plan (Memotron only has free offline version)

  • Some features are not available yet on Memotron which will take some time.

    • Content templates

    • Linux app

    • AI editing

  • Extensive community and tutorials (We are working on producing more in-depth tutorials)

FAQs

Does Memotron has equivalent of relation property?

Memotron doesn’t have a relation property. But this is intentional. As per the design of the app where relationships between nodes is required, you can use link tags instead.

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