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Discussion on: ⭐️ The Open Source Alternative To Notion ⭐️

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Jeremy Friesen

There's also Logseq, Emac's org-roam, and NB. Each of which provides an application layer on top of your file system.

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Asrorbek O'ktamjonov

Xmm, interesting)

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Joshua Anderson

I really like Obsidian, been using it for a while. It's kinda similar to these and also just uses the file system so it's super nice

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Jeremy Friesen

I've heard good things about Obsidian. My understanding is that it's not OSS, but has a free version and stores files on your file system, so you don't have a vendor lock-in problem.

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Joshua Anderson

Yeah, it's not OSS sadly. I use the free version and Syncthing for multiple devices. I'm looking into those others though, I've never heard of logseq and the others look interesting too. I'd greatly prefer using one that is open source!

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Derek Ardolf • Edited

If looking at an OSS alternative to Obsidian, Dendron is a good one to take a look at (also is local-first markdown files). I use Dendron on the Desktop, and the Obsidian mobile app if taking Dendron notes on my phone.

Dendron docs have a high-level comparison: Dendron vs. Obsidian