Notion vs. Obsidian: Which is BETTER?

== DESCRIPTION ==
This video is about whether you should use Obsidian or Notion for your productivity and note-taking needs! Here, I try to tie my multiple perspectives as a doctor who also does coding and creative stuff, as well as having used both of them for a few years. If you're stuck on choosing one, this will be a really comprehensive but concise video that hopefully helps you make a good decision!

I've tried to keep it balanced and fair, and if you're just getting started, I talk about both of them in significantly more depth in my courses to help you get up to speed quickly:

== TIMESTAMPS ==
00:00 - Introduction
00:23 - Architects vs Gardeners
00:55 - High School and Uni Students
01:20 - Medical students
01:34 - Engineers
01:56 - Arts Students / Researchers
02:38 - Language Students
02:54 - Knowledge Professionals
03:12 - Creators
03:33 - The Perfect Second Brain System?
04:49 - Speed
05:09 - Ease of Use
05:48 - Text Editing
06:50 - Search
07:57 - Integration with Anki
08:35 - Integration with Readwise
09:10 - Mobile
09:55 - Pricing
10:35 - What would you choose if only one?
11:18 - Where to go next?

== WHO AM I? ==
I'm Dr David Liu - a doctor from Australia, YouTuber, and vTube/anime lover! My channel is about tech, personal knowledge management, books, and sentimental useful things. I don't usually make health videos, but today I wanted to because this was an important topic to talk about.

== COURSES I MADE ==

== TOOLS I USE ==
(but I composed some of my own music for this video)

✍️ Ghost, the blog platform I use:

📸 Descript, the video editing software that lets you edit videos like a Word document:

== OTHER CHANNELS ==

== SOCIALS ==
📸 Instagram: @drdabido

[altostratus]

I really like that you framed the comparison of Notion vs Obsidian based on intended use cases, from simple (structured vs unstructured) to very specific (languages, engineering etc.). I wish you would have covered the privacy and security topic for both though; Notion not providing end to end encryption for your data and giving Notion employees access to your data 'with permission' from the company, versus Obsidian storing your data locally on your PC and being infinitely more secure.

[tobiaskollark]

Dude you make such high quality content on YouTube...please don't give up - you will get to your well-deserved viewer base eventually! <3

[yusra]

Obsidian has toggles
You have to use # <space> heading

The no. of # determines its hierarchy

[Holly-jf]

Great comparison! Best I've seen, thank you! Subscribed!

[CoachAdamRuns]

Best comparison I’ve seen so far. Very helpful. Thanks

[issmara]

You explained it so well and provided the clarity I was looking for! I've been trying to make Notion work for the past year, but all I have is pieces everywhere and its utter chaos to connect them and pull them when I need the info. I heard of Obsidian as a good alternative and so after watching this Im going to give it a try into 2023 to see if it fits me better! Thank you for the vid!!

[bryanrivers]

dude this was super helpful, thank you so much for making this

[rpbatchAEC]

Great concise video with lots of useful insight. Thank you!

[KL-uumb]

1 more to add.

if you use a lot of images and screenshots,
in notion you can resize and move the image,

whereas obsidian .. you can but really not flexible.
also the markdown of the image sometimes really annoying.

main reason I use would choose notion for.

[AtomLabX]

Can you do a break down for people who are studying engineering and computer science?

[haggleshaggle]

Syncing obsidian is really expensive or a pain in the ass. Notion brings free syncing for basic usage but lacks offline mode. Hard call. Depends on usecase. Both have their strenghts, love the tagging and links of obsidian. Backlinks are great. Databases of Notion are extremely useful if you have information that fits categorys very well. Databases in Obsidian are a bit clunky.

[TV-usue]

there is a delay of sound or image of this video

[Zitrolena]

How are you using obsidian and notion in general? Like what goes where? Good video btw!

[AntiJahl]

Please Why Obsidian not Encryption file on local

[stephennesheanerandallalba]

Damn... The issue for me is Obsidian does not have the cross platform editing :( Please help if you have any idea in to this? I use my tablet laptop and phone... and will it be free? :(

[渡海-qw]

Unlimited storage from notion and clean ui vs unstructured crap and ugly ui from obsidian is a bad proposition and no free sync is crap on obsidian. Sorry obsidian fanbois you do you.