


And I can be certain that my notes will be accessible for decades to come. Obsidian isn’t as fancy as Notion with dynamic views or anything like that. And if Obsidian ever shuts down, your notes are not only readable in a plain-text editor, but also can be modified/viewed by a gazillion other Markdown editors. You can store your notes on your favorite cloud provider. The best thing is that it does not store your notes. Obsidian is a simple Markdown-based note-taking application. And decided not to use either Notion or Roam research.įinally, in 2020, I came across Obsidian and decided to make the move. I was tired of moving notes from one proprietary system to another. Organize/Edit - This is where Evernote falls down a bit. They had such an enthusiastic fan following that they decided not to even have a freemium model. Turns out a new cool kid on the block showed up soon enough. Then I heard about a service called Notion. Notion compared to Evernote (Text version via linked note below) Conclusion: Notion is fun to use and provides a lot of value, yet the downsides are to big to seriously invest more time. Unlike Google, note-taking is the central business of Evernote, I thought I would be fine. Once I received a notice that it will shut down, I switched to Evernote around 2012. I started using Google Notebook around 2008.
