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What's the general consensus on Obsidian?

I've been using Notion on/off for a while and remember reading a lot of people were migrating to Obsidian as I believe it had two features Notion users have been begging for if I remember correctly - offline mode and encrypted at rest (although I believe Obsidian is self hosted?)/

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Obsidian is similar to Notion, except it's plaintext (mostly markdown, but there are plugins for other formats as well) and is an electron app it's, which admittedly some people are not a big fan of because of the performance reasons. In this case though I would argue it's a great strength, because you can use JavaScript to write plugins and ot has a good ecosystem already.

Notion is better in most things it's doing, while obsidian is better in the things Notion is not offering or where it's weak. So it depends on your priorities and abilities. And on the long run, the gap will become smaller and smaller, in favor of obsidian I would say.

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