Notion vs Obsidian Complete Video Comparison // Review 2021

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
• Notion
  • Not so good - 2:40
    • Cloud based - 2:50
    • Exporting to .md - 4:00

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
• Obsidian - 9:20
  • Customization - 9:30
    • Plugins

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

Learn More

• Obsidian 33:00
  • Checkout my Obsidian online course