Use Obsidian for Digital Note-Taking

If you are looking to degoogle your digital footprint may I strongly recommend downloading Obsidian! Your notes live locally on your devices which means the only one who has access to your data/writing is you. You can sync across devices using iCloud or any other iCloud type service. You can also have it all backed up on an external hard drive. I have a super old computer and I can still use the older version of Obsidian to run on my MacOS Catalina.

Unlike Notion which can literally delete all your data if the company closes, gets hacked, or due to some other admin error, Obsidian is something you “own” once you download it on to your computer/devices (phone/ipad) etc.

Another feature that Obsidian has that Notion does not is the graph view and having the ability to see how all your ideas/notes connect.

Lastly, you can finally build effortless databases in Obsidian, something that only Notion was able to provide! Once databases were introduced I officially said goodbye to Notion.