alt Hacker NewsVery timely. I literally ran a Claude prompt "compare and contrast Notion vs Obsidian" and flipped over to HN while it was thinking, and this comes up. Thanks HN!
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kirubakaran • yesterday at 7:16 PM
You could try https://hyperclast.com/ (my project). Here's the comparison vs Notion, Obsidian etc https://hyperclast.com/vs/
supriyo-biswas • yesterday at 7:00 PM
I self host https://www.getoutline.com/ instead, they might not have the latest AI features but it has everything I could ask for from a Notion alternative.
weberer • yesterday at 6:50 PM
I switched from Obsidian to Joplin years ago. Its completely FOSS and can sync with your private Nextcloud instance.
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Kye • yesterday at 8:54 PM
Consider Trilium if the collaboration stuff people use Notion for isn't important. It's open source, uses SQLite, and does automatic daily and weekly backups.
For a personal knowledge base? I would stay far away from anything proprietary for personal notes. I love logseq though I'm increasingly worried it's abandonware