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Comment by photon_garden | Hacker News Reader

I was a big Notion fan for years and am now solidly in the Obsidian camp.

Speed and local-first was originally the main differentiator, but over time Steph Ango's "file over app" philosophy has become my favorite feature.

Yesterday I used Claude Code to automate some Obsidian cleanup and it was trivial because everything's just a file.

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Local-first becomes even better in combination with local LLMs.

yes! So many people are missing out on using claude-code directly on their knowledge base locally. Once you have it all local it seems completely crazy to push all of that context into a locked-in saas platform with mediocre AI tools.

You are not their current market, at all (individual vs team use) and your solution is unsuitable for theirs

People using their free offering for personal use is a critical part of Notion's sales pipeline. It's a hell of a lot easier to sell a piece of software to a company when all it's internal users have already trained themselves how to use it in their personal time. Those users are probably the ones generating the enterprise sales lead in the first place