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by mgmobrien 296 days ago
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.

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> 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.