[jdejean]

No databases, views, nested pages, automations, or collaboration. It’s a flat list of files with folders. You can supplement these features with plugins but it’s not the same. Notion is objectively more powerful but if you care about data ownership or minimalism you might prefer Obsidian

[kepano]

Views were added in Obsidian 1.9 (Aug 2025)

https://help.obsidian.md/bases

Collaboration was added in Obsidian 0.14 (May 2022)

https://help.obsidian.md/sync/collaborate