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Capture and organise what you know.

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With AI

Tools where a model does the work. Faster, usually paid, and your input generally leaves your machine.

Nothing indexed for this approach yet.

Without AI

Conventional software and hand-built websites. Slower to learn, usually free, and most of these run entirely on your own machine.

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ObsidianhumanUNVERIFIED
Local-first notes stored as plain markdown files you own.
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Logseqhuman
Outliner notes with backlinks, kept as plain files on your disk.
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Notionhybrid
Documents, databases and wikis, with AI features you can ignore.
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Joplinhuman
Open source notes with end to end encrypted sync you can point anywhere.
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