NOTION vs ROAM vs OBSIDIAN vs LOGSEQ vs WORKFLOWY. Which one is better for book notes?

Today I’ll compare the various note-taking apps that have emerged from the note-taking boom brought on by Roam, which will involve old note-taking apps like Notion, Workflowy, etc., and note-taking newcomers Roam, Obsidian, LogSeq, and so on.

Since this is a brief review, I won’t go into detail about their features. If you are struggling with which note-taking app to choose as your primary tool, I’m sure you’ve already seen countless feature descriptions, so there’s no point for me to go over the features in detail again.

The review is entirely out of subjective feelings. If there are mistakes, welcome to leave a comment. I often swing between different APPs, so even if I don’t think an APP is working well today, it doesn’t mean I won’t use it again in the future.

First of all, I have two requirements for the note-taking app: first, trust, which includes my belief that what I write will not be lost and that I can find it when I need it, and second, willingness to use it to write, which is a bit of a mystery and can be influenced by a combination of the note app’s UI, functionality and performance. In short, some APPs can make you concentrate on writing, while some APPs make you want to play the APP all the time.

Notion

Notion has two biggest advantages. The first is that it looks beautiful. For example, in the list of excerpts exported from Readwise, Notion’s…