[bayindirh]

I use both.

Obsidian is very powerful for quick entry and working on Markdown knowledge bases, and it's great. I use it to manage my digital garden among other things.

On the other hand, Notion is great for processing data. I use their databases extensively incl. their charts and whatnot. I also host a couple of read-only public pages for friends or family as documentation.

I think they cater to different use cases and doesn't replace each other. I'd certainly won't run my digital garden over Notion, or store the databases I keep in Notion in Obsidian. Obsidian's Bases fill a different need, for now.

Also, Notion slightly pivoted recently. They altered their “single person” oriented Pro plan and made Business their “Entry level, full fledged” plan. They do not cater to individuals anymore. Where obsidian is more geared towards individuals.

[mgmobrien]

For some kinds of data processing having your files in a local folder is a prereq. Every day I have my Obsidian vault open in Zed, and I interact with files via the tool-calling agent panel and via terminal.

I haven't tried Notion AI, maybe it's great. But I can't imagine going back to a world where all my knowledge lives in Notion's house. Notion CEO Ivan Zhao recently said: "If you think about applications, each application is kind of like a mini-prison of computing". (https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/75...) I think he's right. I don't want to be in Notion's prison even if it's big and nice.

[bayindirh]

> For some kinds of data processing having your files in a local folder is a prereq.

Of course.

> open in Zed, and I interact with files via the tool-calling agent panel and via terminal.

Ah no, I don't use AI for that kind of tasks. I generally use my own formulae and what Notion provides Sans-AI.

> I haven't tried Notion AI, maybe it's great.

Me neither. I asked for authors and synopsis for a couple of books, that's all.

> I can't imagine going back to a world where all my knowledge lives in Notion's house.

Before going in, I always check how the Export works. Notion gives your text as Markdown and tables/databases as CSV, which is good enough for me.

I don't prefer to use services which I need to move my stuff by hand.

If I can make Bases work for me in Obsidian, I might move completely to Obsidian, but I need to test that first.

Edit: Looks like the functions Obsidian supports are not enough for me to move over yet.