About Scrintal
Scrintal is a hosted note-taking tool that treats notes as cards laid out on a canvas and linked to one another. The idea is to let people organize and connect ideas visually rather than keeping them in a linear list of documents.
The vendor aims it at researchers, students and professionals who need to brainstorm freely and then pull material together into organized plans. It has also released Gobu, an AI research assistant for working through articles such as academic papers, essays, news and reports. Pricing is published on the vendor's site.
Key features
- Notes as connected cards on a canvas
- Visual organization of research
- Linked ideas across a knowledge map
- Gobu AI research assistant
Good fit for
- →Organizing research notes visually
- →Studying complex subjects with linked cards
- Tags
- note-taking
- knowledge-management
- visual-thinking
- research
- canvas
- ai
- students
Scrintal: questions and answers
- What is Scrintal used for?
- Scrintal is a commercial visual note-taking and knowledge mapping tool where notes become connected cards on a canvas, aimed at researchers, students and professionals. It is a good fit for organizing research notes visually and studying complex subjects with linked cards.
- How much does Scrintal cost?
- Paid plans for Scrintal start at $4.83 per seat per month, and there is no free plan.
- Is Scrintal open source?
- No. Scrintal is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Scrintal include AFFiNE, Revezone and Ideon.
- What are some alternatives to Scrintal?
- Scrintal competes with Milanote, Heptabase and Obsidian. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Scrintal alternatives.
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