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I'm not understanding the value here. If I'm writing markdown and avoiding notion, what does this provide my team that git does not? I can easily write the mar

by DerArzt 8mo ago

I'm not understanding the value here. If I'm writing markdown and avoiding notion, what does this provide my team that git does not? I can easily write the markdown docs and they will render fin in most git forges.

antics 8mo ago
Moment is distinctive because (1) it's natively programmable, and (2) has a native, high-performance, live collaborative editing. For (1), programmability is why our templates[1] are generally so rich. See, e.g, our NES emulator[2] or our SQLite Explorer[3], both of which would be vastly harder to accomplish in Notion. It's even much harder in Obsidian, which is Markdown-first! Both templates took ~30 minutes of work with `claude`, and to do something similar with their respective extension APIs would have take orders of magnitude more time, especially to publish. For (2), actually-working live collaborative editing is pretty hard to come by on Markdown-based docs editors. If you don't think you need this, the offering will be less compelling. My opinion is that many people who think they don't need this in a team setting end up being surprised how big a barrier this is when they try to use Obsidian as the central knowledge base for a team setting. Notion is extremely buggy and sometimes very slow, but in almost all cases I've seen, that ends up being worth the trade-off of not having to write code or get everyone to use the exact same extension set. Just my 2 cents though. [1]: https://www.moment.dev/templates https://www.moment.dev/templates [2]: https://www.moment.dev/templates/75ovowgp6jnv6lofwu60bx1d1 https://www.moment.dev/templates/75ovowgp6jnv6lofwu60bx1d1 [3]: https://www.moment.dev/templates/4m8zt4ne0bnqfb4hjtcwm2fob https://www.moment.dev/templates/4m8zt4ne0bnqfb4hjtcwm2fob
- DerArzt 7mo ago
  You can make a NES emulator, that's neat! I'm probably not your target audience it seems. I don't know why a large amount of programmability is beneficial for a knowledge document system. Then again, I don't generally like my notes to be much fancier than text when possible so I can read it on any device or platform.

by DerArzt 8mo ago

antics 8mo ago

Moment is distinctive because (1) it's natively programmable, and (2) has a native, high-performance, live collaborative editing. For (1), programmability is why our templates[1] are generally so rich. See, e.g, our NES emulator[2] or our SQLite Explorer[3], both of which would be vastly harder to accomplish in Notion. It's even much harder in Obsidian, which is Markdown-first! Both templates took ~30 minutes of work with `claude`, and to do something similar with their respective extension APIs would have take orders of magnitude more time, especially to publish. For (2), actually-working live collaborative editing is pretty hard to come by on Markdown-based docs editors. If you don't think you need this, the offering will be less compelling. My opinion is that many people who think they don't need this in a team setting end up being surprised how big a barrier this is when they try to use Obsidian as the central knowledge base for a team setting. Notion is extremely buggy and sometimes very slow, but in almost all cases I've seen, that ends up being worth the trade-off of not having to write code or get everyone to use the exact same extension set. Just my 2 cents though. [1]: https://www.moment.dev/templates https://www.moment.dev/templates [2]: https://www.moment.dev/templates/75ovowgp6jnv6lofwu60bx1d1 https://www.moment.dev/templates/75ovowgp6jnv6lofwu60bx1d1 [3]: https://www.moment.dev/templates/4m8zt4ne0bnqfb4hjtcwm2fob https://www.moment.dev/templates/4m8zt4ne0bnqfb4hjtcwm2fob

DerArzt 7mo ago
You can make a NES emulator, that's neat! I'm probably not your target audience it seems. I don't know why a large amount of programmability is beneficial for a knowledge document system. Then again, I don't generally like my notes to be much fancier than text when possible so I can read it on any device or platform.