Notion vs Obsidian Complete Video Comparison // Review 2021
September 17, 2020
In this video I made a complete review of my favorite aspects of both Obsidian and Notion.
Show Notes
Owning Your Data - 1:00
- Obsidian
- Excellent
- Plain text files - 1:30
- Excellent
- Notion
- Not so good - 2:40
- Cloud based - 2:50
- Exporting to .md - 4:00
- Not so good - 2:40
Capability / Features - 5:40
- Notion - 6:00
- Flexible
- Extremely flexible and powerful for collaboration
- Great features
- Tables (databases) - 6:20
- To-do's / Task management example - 6:50
- Flexible
- Obsidian - 9:20
- Customization - 9:30
- Plugins
- Customization - 9:30
Task Management
- Notion - 11:00
- Excellent
- Obsidian - 11:30
- potentially good
Collaboration - 14:10
- Obsidian
- Not so good (yet) - 14:20
- Notion
- Excellent
Note-taking - 16:20
- Notion
- Up to you (but maybe not) - 16:30
- Obsidian - 18:00
- Excellent
- Obsidian Publish - 18:10
Price - 20:00
- Obsidian - 21:00
- Practically free, optional paid features
- Notion - 24:20
- Free and paid options
Community - 28:00
- Notion - 28:20
- Obsidian - 28:50
- Forum - 29:00
Visualization of notes
- Obsidian - 30:00
- Notion - 31:10
My use of each - 31:40
- Notion
- Task Management
- Collaboration
- Obsidian 32:00
- Creative writing
- Quick organization of ideas
- Website content generator
- Drafting video scripts and ideas
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- Obsidian 33:00