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I was a big Notion fan for years and am now solidly in the Obsidian camp. Speed and local-first was originally the main differentiator, but over time Steph Ango's "file over app" philosophy has become my favorite feature. Yesterday I used Claude Code to automate some Obsidian cleanup and it was trivial because everything's just a file.
I was a big Notion fan for years and am now solidly in the Obsidian camp. Speed and local-first was originally the main differentiator, but over time Steph Ango's "file over app" philosophy has become my favorite feature. Yesterday I used Claude Code to automate some Obsidian cleanup and it was trivial because everything's just a file.
i usually compare obsidian to joplin... seems like i should be looking more at obsidian because i was considering starting a new wiki in notion.
I was a big Notion fan for years and am now solidly in the Obsidian camp. Speed and local-first was originally the main differentiator, but over time Steph Ango's "file over app" philosophy has become my favorite feature. Yesterday I used Claude Code to automate some Obsidian cleanup and it was trivial because everything's just a file.
I guess for a lot of users like myself using Notion ship has sailed. Most of them have moved to Obsidian, with the new database feature of Obsidian, and it being free, I do not see why users would choose Notion over Obsidian.
You need to get out of your bubble. Notion is so much more popular than Obsidian you cannot imagine. My dentist office uses Notion for example. Migrating out of Notion is also very difficult and for most people it isn't worth the hassle. Obsidian not being web based is also a con not a pro to the average person. The number of people leaving Notion for Obsidian is a rounding error.
I would like to have more of the content available offline automatically though, i.e all text and image content, and big files downloaded on request. Closer to local first than this.
I do want to keep Notion's ability to work in a browser and to maintain a single, accessible store of my notes.
What are my options?
I'm a Notion fan but the lack of a native Linux app has me shopping for a replacement. Obsidian seems, from what I've seen, focused on the ability to graph notes, which I don't really care about. I want note-taking, list-making, and markdown friendly. I do want to keep Notion's ability to work in a browser and to maintain a single, accessible store of my notes. What are my options?
I'm a Notion fan but the lack of a native Linux app has me shopping for a replacement. Obsidian seems, from what I've seen, focused on the ability to graph notes, which I don't really care about. I want note-taking, list-making, and markdown friendly. I do want to keep Notion's ability to work in a browser and to maintain a single, accessible store of my notes. What are my options?
You can disable the graph feature and never link any notes.
I'm a Notion fan but the lack of a native Linux app has me shopping for a replacement. Obsidian seems, from what I've seen, focused on the ability to graph notes, which I don't really care about. I want note-taking, list-making, and markdown friendly. I do want to keep Notion's ability to work in a browser and to maintain a single, accessible store of my notes. What are my options?
I'm a Notion fan but the lack of a native Linux app has me shopping for a replacement. Obsidian seems, from what I've seen, focused on the ability to graph notes, which I don't really care about. I want note-taking, list-making, and markdown friendly. I do want to keep Notion's ability to work in a browser and to maintain a single, accessible store of my notes. What are my options?
I feel like you just described Obsidian. You can do more with tagging and linking but you definitely don't have to
I'm a Notion fan but the lack of a native Linux app has me shopping for a replacement. Obsidian seems, from what I've seen, focused on the ability to graph notes, which I don't really care about. I want note-taking, list-making, and markdown friendly. I do want to keep Notion's ability to work in a browser and to maintain a single, accessible store of my notes. What are my options?