obsidian.md
If you've ever wanted your notes to outlive the app, this is the one. Local files, your plugins, your graph.
This week's hub · collaborative docs
If you live in Notion, you should know these neighbors.
Notion attracts a particular kind of attention — half cathedral, half spreadsheet. The tools that orbit it solve the same problem from opposite ends: local-first at one extreme, docs-as-apps at the other. Here are the five worth your time, with notes on what each does that Notion doesn't.
Five sites like Notion
coda.io
Docs that secretly want to be apps. Pairs well with teams who keep asking "can the doc just do the thing?"
roamresearch.com
The original networked-thought tool. Steeper learning curve, deeper payoff for researchers and writers.
logseq.com
The open-source one. Outliner by default, daily-journal-first, runs entirely on your own files.
craft.do
The most beautiful of the bunch. Native to Apple platforms, made for people who care about how a paragraph sits on a page.
Or take a chance — show me a site I've never seen.