I felt that I learned to use Craft in a much more productive way thanks to these resources. We got short enough emails to teach the basics, but don’t be too dense. The onboarding email sequence is linked to templates that can come in handy and examples which are showing the possibilities that can be achieved with the tool. The guys over at Craft are doing a great job at this. The required information to use a product at its full potential is available in some form on the internet but it really matters how that info is packaged and delivered. Short info-backed videos like the one about writing, creating, and documenting are also immensely useful on the same channel. There are similar walkthroughs for different use cases on the Craft Docs Youtube channel as well. My number one way of learning how to use Craft was the personal walkthroughs like the one Maggi Fuchs did on her YouTube channel: Grouping blocks into a page, creating cards, using shortcuts, getting the most out of a page design, and utilizing markdown are all cases that weren’t intuitive for me but turned out to be a great advantage when I learned to use them.Īnd you can learn to use all of these and more because there are resources available. It’s not that I couldn’t make notes and create pages I wanted but rather that I was doing it slowly and didn’t use the features which make working in Craft fun. Even though I have used several similar apps before I was lost at the beginning. Let’s get to my main takeaways when it comes to why I liked Craft docs: Onboarding & Available Content Premade pages in Craft to help you at at the startĬraft Docs has a steep learning curve if you want to utilize its full potential. I have some mixed feelings after this trial period but the pros are much outweighing the cons. With this usage, I maxed out the 1500 block in two weeks. I went all in with Craft and tried to recreate all the workflows I had in Notion for task management and knowledge capturing. I think my beginner point of view can be a worthy supplement to make this decision. But most of you will have the same time to try Craft and decide whether it is worth committing to a paid plan or not. My review of Craft will be limited based on this usage constraint. Maybe I was just making up excuses to satisfy my shiny object syndrome and try Craft.Įventually, I downloaded Craft Docs to all my devices and maxed out the 1500 free blocks. This changed with the announcement of the Windows app.īut in the meantime, I started to feel too comfortable and rigid with my setup. For a long time Craft was only an option for apple users and I simply wouldn’t be able to use it on a desktop. Device compatibility: I use an iPhone but have a Windows laptop.I wasn’t sure 1.5K blocks are enough to get to know a new tool. I didn’t know how Craft works, how often you have to create blocks, and how much time it takes to reach the limit. Limited free trial: You can try out Craft Docs for free, but you have a limit in usage until 1500 blocks.Good existing alternatives: I didn’t have any problem with my system in Notion and didn’t see clearly what advantages Craft Docs provide over Notion to justify the time investment of trying it out.I didn’t see a strong use case to try Craft because of several reasons:

It was described to me several times as the Apple native version of Notion. I was happy with this setup, but from time to time I got the same recommendations from my friends and the readers of this blog:Ĭraft Docs was founded in 2019 and got traction pretty early within the apple users of the Personal Knowledge Management community. I use Notion for quick capturing and for managing my goals and tasks following GTD.Īt the same time, the home of my ideas is sitting in Obsidian based on the Zettelkasten method. I have a pretty advanced Notion setup which transformed with me over the years. I live and breathe apps that can help me to prioritize better, get more done and think better.

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