For me I'm not particularly vocal, but I like Obsidian because the files are just regular markdown files in the filesystem, so can just edit them using vim, por

For me I'm not particularly vocal, but I like Obsidian because the files are just regular markdown files in the filesystem, so can just edit them using vim, port them out etc. I like it way more than other notetaking systems for that reason. And the authors embrace that idea so it's very happy if you make edits to the underlying files - it doesn't conflict or anything it smoothly reloads to reflect the new state and always feels snappy and easy to use. I use notion at work and it's ok but for one it's dog slow and secondly they've put too much fancypants autocomplete stuff into it meaning it's actually quite annoying when you're just trying to type a note and it's popping up dropdowns and stuff all the time. ymmv of course, different people like different things. I would say notion has leaned more into the collaboration thing whereas obsidian has really tried to make a great note taking tool for individual use.