> It’d be like saying that World of Warcraft should have an offline mode. No, an offline mode in WoW lets everyone cheat. Blizzard started with this, and it’s

> It’d be like saying that World of Warcraft should have an offline mode. No, an offline mode in WoW lets everyone cheat. Blizzard started with this, and it’s bad for cheating as well as recurring revenue. You can’t cheat at self-organising. > its entire purpose is to exchange information online I don’t think so. Its purpose is to express yourself freely and interlinked. A feature is that you can always share any hypermedia with others, and it does provide a lot of value in an organisation. But Notion would be valuable offline. Unfortunately, a company like Notion is similarly incentivised to make their software dependent on connectivity, since they are a SaaSS (service as a software substitute); offline-first self-organising apps like Obsidian, Emacs org-mode, or VSCode Foam wouldn’t generate as much money; this is why Obsidian are heroes: they pick an architecture and business model that is in the interest of their users.