I think saying Notion's dead because we have Logseq now is like saying MS Word is dead because we have vim - ignoring timelines and I'm exaggerating a bit of course.
I’m doing the same thing I complain about the “emacs is enough, we’ve had this for 30 years” commenters doing... conflating “good enough for me and my nerd friends” with “good enough for anybody” :-P
What I meant was that we finally have cheap/free GUI tools to do the same things, based on open standards with no data lock in.
From that standpoint, proprietary closed systems where your data is trapped, like Notion and Roam, should go extinct.
BUT it is definitely arguable that Notion is still easier and more approachable than Obsidian, and certainly LogSeq.
From that standpoint Notion is still a better tool for a large number of people.
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I think saying Notion's dead because we have Logseq now is like saying MS Word is dead because we have vim - ignoring timelines and I'm exaggerating a bit of course.
Yeah, you are right actually.
I’m doing the same thing I complain about the “emacs is enough, we’ve had this for 30 years” commenters doing... conflating “good enough for me and my nerd friends” with “good enough for anybody” :-P
What I meant was that we finally have cheap/free GUI tools to do the same things, based on open standards with no data lock in.
From that standpoint, proprietary closed systems where your data is trapped, like Notion and Roam, should go extinct.
BUT it is definitely arguable that Notion is still easier and more approachable than Obsidian, and certainly LogSeq.
From that standpoint Notion is still a better tool for a large number of people.