I am currently using Obsidian. I like it; it is great. The graph is a bit of a gimmick but very rewarding. The formatting is easy. The search can be great and powerful, but Markdown can also be a letdown sometimes; it is just so limiting sometimes.
I think Obsidian is almost boring. It works, and my main gripe is syncing it to my phone. I have tried using Syncthing, but I often get clashes with versions of notes or even lose notes, even when using Syncthing versioning.
But then there is Notion. Let me first say, I have not used Notion at all. I made an account, saw all the great stuff, especially the database feature and all the APIs, but something felt off.
Of course, I researched the privacy of Notion and realised it is a complete dumpster fire.
My work is confidential; I really can’t use something like Notion. But then, for my personal stuff, I also don’t want AI to be trained on it or used for marketing to me or on me.
Are there alternatives to Notion that someone can recommend to me?
I believe you will happy with anytype:
the source code is made public and your notes/database are encrypted by default. You can even sync locally from your phone/laptop without internet.
The only two negatives I have found are that the mobile app has 1 tracker embedded into it (amplitude) and you dont have a choice about your encrypted data syncing to their servers.
This looks amazing, thank you very much!
Support if you like it and can. I use it everyday and can’t say enough nice things. They have a great telegram channel that is very active
Logseq can be run locally (without any “cloud”) and is free & open source.
But considerably different compared to Obsidian in a lot of small ways. It was a deal breaker for me
https://appflowy.com/ is another possibility.
This looks great, thank you!
Looks sick!
I write notes in markdown (I’m not attached to any particular editor) and push them to a self hosted git server. Git therefore also helps handle any merge conflicts between devices.
