Write, connect, and visualise your ideas on a spatial board — where your notes become a living map of everything you know.
Each app below addresses a specific gap in Scrintal's offering. We picked them based on real user review patterns and feature differentiation.
Heptabase offers a spatial whiteboard for notes with deep PDF annotation integration, favoured by researchers building literature-based knowledge maps.
Explore Heptabase data →Obsidian's Canvas plugin provides a visual spatial layout for notes stored as local Markdown files, with a vast plugin ecosystem for further customisation.
Explore Obsidian data →Milanote is a visual board tool for collecting and organising creative research — images, links, notes, and files — in a flexible spatial layout.
Explore Milanote data →Tana uses typed node schemas to create structured, queryable notes, prioritising structured data relationships over visual spatial organisation.
Explore Tana data →Roam Research was the original bidirectional-link note tool, with a graph view for visualising connections and a strong power-user community.
Explore Roam Research data →Logseq is a free, open-source, local-first outliner with bidirectional links and graph visualisation, offering privacy and no subscription.
Explore Logseq data →Visual thinkers migrating from linear note apps discovered Scrintal as a way to spatially organise ideas while maintaining full-text notes, bridging mind mapping and note-taking.
Scrintal is primarily a cloud-based tool and requires an internet connection for full functionality. Offline support is limited compared to local-first tools like Obsidian or Logseq.
Miro is a team collaboration whiteboard tool optimised for workshops and diagramming. Scrintal is a personal knowledge management tool with rich note cards that can be written and then arranged visually.
Scrintal supports Markdown import, allowing users to migrate notes from Obsidian, Roam, Logseq, or other Markdown-based tools into the visual card system.
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