I’m currently on Notion and have went through many off these different things.
I’m always worried about getting too invested and then the company going under. However, the open source things are always a little too rough around the edges for my taste.
This is the factor that persuaded me to try Obsidian in the first place. It’s maintained by a company, so perhaps more polish than some FOSS projects, but the notes are all stored purely as simple markdown files on your hard disk, so if the company goes under the worst that happens is there are no more updates and I just keep using whatever the last version was
To address that concern, I think it is important that a service has good data export. One thing that is good about Notion is that the data you are creating is fairly generic: markdown and tables, so now that they are popular and have a public API we are seeing lots of services for moving and sync’ing their data with other services.
I’ve thought about trying Roam, but it is expensive and I worry that, if I use it for a while but then decide it is no longer worth the cost, how will I move that data elsewhere?
I’m currently on Notion and have went through many off these different things.
I’m always worried about getting too invested and then the company going under. However, the open source things are always a little too rough around the edges for my taste.
This is the factor that persuaded me to try Obsidian in the first place. It’s maintained by a company, so perhaps more polish than some FOSS projects, but the notes are all stored purely as simple markdown files on your hard disk, so if the company goes under the worst that happens is there are no more updates and I just keep using whatever the last version was
To address that concern, I think it is important that a service has good data export. One thing that is good about Notion is that the data you are creating is fairly generic: markdown and tables, so now that they are popular and have a public API we are seeing lots of services for moving and sync’ing their data with other services.
I’ve thought about trying Roam, but it is expensive and I worry that, if I use it for a while but then decide it is no longer worth the cost, how will I move that data elsewhere?