Notion vs Obsidian: Which Second Brain is Best?

We paid full price on a Tuesday and have been living with the consequences since.

The specification sheet and the experience are different documents. One is written by the people who built it. The other gets written by you, slowly, in small moments of mild irritation or quiet relief.

Filed under Productivity, which on this site means we care about the boring parts: whether it holds a connection, whether the app is still maintained a year from now, and whether anybody answers the phone when it breaks. The question is never whether a thing works in the shop. It is whether it still works in six months, on your network, alongside your other devices, without you having to think about it.

If you want the short version: it depends, and the thing it depends on is probably not what you expected.

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Tomasz Mieczkowski

Writes the saas beat for Drafted Tech. Everything filed here was paid for at retail, which is the whole reason this site exists.

Comments (4)

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    A. Whitfield

    Jan 13, 2026 19:00

    This is the only review I have found that mentions the noise. Everyone else writes as though it is silent.

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    sam_on_the_couch

    Jan 13, 2026 14:00

    Any idea whether the older model is still worth buying at a discount, or is the new one a real upgrade?

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    rjm

    Jan 14, 2026 00:00

    Did you test it on mesh wifi? Mine drops every few days and support keeps telling me it is my router.

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    Devon R.

    Jan 13, 2026 20:00

    Returned mine inside the window. Nothing wrong with it, it just was not worth what they are asking.

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