Notes/Docs.

Store your thinking, docs, wiki, & personal knowledge. Every article filed under this job, most read first, plus the pick and the one alternative worth comparing it to.

Productivity · Notes/Docs

Just move to Google Workspace.

Nobody chose Microsoft 365 this year. You chose it once, years ago, and you've clicked renew ever since. Meanwhile the client shares a Google Doc, the new app wants a Gmail login, and the AI agent connects to Workspace in 2 clicks.

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Productivity · Notes/Docs

Notion is the outdated way

For 8 years the answer to every workflow question was a Notion template. Databases inside databases, a wiki nobody read, and a Sunday spent gardening it all. The premise made sense when software was dumb and needed us to file everything in the right drawer.

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Notes/Docs: Notion or Obsidian

Store your thinking, docs, wiki, & personal knowledge.

The Pick

Notion↗ Docs + databases + wiki + light PM in 1.

SOPs, wikis, trackers and light databases the whole team reads
Anything shared: permissions, comments, client-facing pages
Turning a doc into a system with relations, templates and AI

The Alt

Obsidian↗ Local-first, markdown, own your files forever.

Writers and researchers building a personal knowledge base in plain markdown
Owning the files: a local folder, no lock-in, works offline forever
Linking ideas, backlinks surface connections you would never file manually

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