5️⃣ TL;DR recommendations

Want privacy + Notion-like UX → Anytype

Want full ownership & longevity → Obsidian / Logseq

Want structure + team workflows → Notion / AFFiNE

Choose your tradeoff. There’s no perfect tool—only the right one for your constraints.

4️⃣ The reality
Most power users end up hybrid:

Markdown for thinking + knowledge

Database tools for projects & collaboration

3️⃣ Key tradeoff

Databases optimize for convenience now
Markdown optimizes for control over time

2️⃣ Markdown / file-based tools
(Obsidian, Logseq)

✅ Full data ownership
✅ Plain text = future-proof
✅ Works offline forever
❌ Less “polished” UX
❌ Weaker real-time collaboration

Best for: personal knowledge, research, long-term thinking.

1️⃣ Database-based tools
(Anytype, Notion, AFFiNE)

✅ Structured data
✅ Powerful relations & views
✅ Easier collaboration
❌ Vendor lock-in
❌ Harder to export / future-proof

Best for: teams, project management, structured workflows.

Perhaps the most important thing to work on in our times

100% please Ping me

Radioactive man is the epitome of electro IMO

Cookie jar?

It was a great talk - thanks for being such a pleasure to work with

fomo!!

Some people wanna live in echo chambers ... sounds boring to me

Many people have fought hard for us to enjoy the end to end encryption we have on our phones today, and we need to keep fighting to keep this freedom.

Please tell all of your friends about this and convince them to act!

More detail on the situation in Germany:
netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...

To be clear if this goes through every message, photo and video on your phone will be scanned and assessed. Signal will leave Europe, and we will all be on a dark path.