How and why we moved our knowledge base from Notion to Markdown (opens in new tab)

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Source: Created: 2026-06-11 15:02:41 Author: Frank Lämmer Tags: chronicles > Why we left Notion for a folder of Markdown files, and the gotchas we hit along the way. ## Motivation There is nothing wrong with Notion. I still enjoy using it privatly. In the beginning, it felt like a very capable Markdown editor with nice abstractions. Over the years though, it got a bit too crowded for my taste. We used Notion as our knowledge base and partially for project management for years. The knowle...

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