Some meandering thoughts on high-trust and low-trust systems, and the design choices they make.

I see a lot of complaints about scope creep and vision drift here, so I'll add a different perspective: I use Notion right now, but have been considering a switch to Obsidian for a while now (variety of reasons, chief among them a desire to reduce my own dependence on US-based tech platforms and tools).

The lack of something like Notion databases / tables was the last thing stopping me from migrating over; I found this feature really helpful for organizing my thoughts and tasks as I want them organized, and not having it would have been a noticeable UX regression for me.

With this launch, I'll take a deeper look. It's that simple: it provides a feature many want, largely because it's seen as a killer feature of comparable closed platforms.

A writeup about how I'm migrating large portions of my digital life away from Big Tech platforms. I'm not making as exhaustive or dramatic an effort as e.g. [1] - but in exchange, the goal is to show that this is something people can do (and should consider doing (and for the tech-savvy audience here, should consider helping other people do)).

Open to suggestions on platforms / tools, questions, respectful debate, etc.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-l...