Help Me Choose Between Notion and Obsidian?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/ObsidianMD

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  • obsidian-dataview

    A data index and query language over Markdown files, for https://obsidian.md/.

  • Obsidian Dataview is pretty great.

  • AppFlowy

    AppFlowy is an open-source alternative to Notion. You are in charge of your data and customizations. Built with Flutter and Rust.

  • Have you heard about appflowy? I still haven't tested, but it seems like a notion frontend that stores data locally.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • logseq

    A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.

  • You might want to try out Logseq, https://logseq.com/ markdown based and very similar to Obsidian in many ways but works more like workflowy in how it organizes as you type and has some pretty nice todo and task status functions built in. I just started using it a month ago and it's quickly becoming my go to for daily notes/tasks/projects. The more I get comfortable with it the more I want other programs to work that way, it has a few kinks still but seems to have very active development. I believe you can actually use it side by side with Obsidian (i.e they can both see all the notes/links from the other in their file views since it's all markdown) haven't fully tried that yet myself though.

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