I think it is just that Obsidian has a nerd vibe.
Like Obsidian is to Notion what Neovim is to VSCode. It isn’t immediately obvious why it is better, but one of them is more l33t hax0r.
I used Obsidian for 2 years. But I ditched it because it was local only. And it’s sync capabilities (without storage) cost more than an entire office site + cloud storage subscription package. Ridiculou that they expect 8 Euro per month just to sync (not even store) my data.
I now use UpNote. Which has cloud sync, works cross platform and has a one time purchase option that is less than 50 bucks
I used Obsidian for 2 years. But I ditched it because it was local only. And it’s sync capabilities (without storage) cost more than an entire office site + cloud storage subscription package. Ridiculou that they expect 8 Euro per month just to sync (not even store) my data.
I now use UpNote. Which has cloud sync, works cross platform and has a one time purchase option that is less than 50 bucks