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I'm on a small team and we need shared meeting notes but also private personal notes — which note apps work well for that?

Measured in 1 answer, last on Nov 10, 2026. Only the passages that name a brand are shown.

Brands in the answers

BrandNamed inRecommended inPositiveAvg. position
Notion100%100%100%—
Microsoft OneNote100%100%100%—
Obsidian100%100%0%—

Where each answer names a brand

Answer 1 · Nov 10, 2026 · 3 sources cited
NotionRecommendedpositive
“My top recommendations are Notion, Microsoft OneNote, and Obsidian.”
+ shared team notes

“Shared notes: Create a Teamspace for meeting notes, projects and team documentation.”

+ private notes

“Private notes: Everyone gets a personal Private section that other team members cannot access.”

+ permissions

“Permissions: Share individual pages with selected colleagues.”

+ meeting templates

“Meeting templates: Create reusable templates for weekly meetings, decisions and action items.”

+ organization

“Organization: Searchable databases, tags, calendars and linked tasks.”

+ private and shared meeting notes

“One particularly useful feature is that Notion supports private meeting notes as well as shared meeting notes.”

+ all-in-one workspace

“Best if: You want meeting notes, personal notes, project documentation and a team wiki in one place.”

− inherited permissions

“Just be careful with inherited permissions when creating subpages inside shared spaces.”

Microsoft OneNoteRecommendedpositive
“My top recommendations are Notion, Microsoft OneNote, and Obsidian.”
+ shared notes

“Shared notes: Create a shared notebook for team meetings.”

+ private notes

“Private notes: Keep a separate personal notebook that nobody else can access.”

+ organization

“Organization: Use notebooks, sections and pages.”

+ collaboration

“Collaboration: Multiple people can edit shared notes simultaneously.”

+ flexibility

“Flexibility: Supports typed notes, handwriting, images, drawings and attachments.”

+ simplicity

“Best if: You want something simple, familiar and flexible without building a complicated organizational system.”

− sharing granularity

“One important limitation: OneNote shares entire notebooks rather than individual pages.”

ObsidianRecommendedSite citedmixed
“My top recommendations are Notion, Microsoft OneNote, and Obsidian.”
+ shared notes

“Shared notes: Create a shared vault for team meeting notes using Obsidian Sync.”

+ private notes

“Private notes: Each person maintains their own separate vault.”

+ privacy

“Privacy: Notes are stored locally, with optional end-to-end encrypted Sync.”

+ organization

“Organization: Excellent linking between notes, projects and ideas.”

− sync subscription required

“everyone needs an active Sync subscription for shared vaults”

− permissions

“permissions aren't fine-grained”

− simultaneous editing

“simultaneous editing of the same file isn't supported”

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