notion alternative

Thurrott’s “Switcher 2026” examines Paul Thurrott’s latest attempt, published in May 2026, to replace Notion with a file-based, Markdown-friendly notes system, with the new open-source app Tolaria emerging as the most promising but still incomplete candidate. The larger story is not simply one...

When a productivity app stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like a maintenance burden, the switch away from it can be surprisingly easy. That is exactly the story behind the move from Notion to AFFiNE, a self-hosted, local-first alternative that aims to preserve the best parts of an...

I spent more than five years inside Notion’s orbit, but quitting it for AFFiNE has been the single most practical change to how I capture, plan, and organize work—and the experience is instructive for anyone considering a self-hosted, open-source Notion alternative. rview AFFiNE bills itself as...