“Notion — the all-purpose block editor”
“Drag and drop: Excellent. Individual blocks and groups can be moved.”
“Nesting: Toggles, nested lists, subpages, and columns.”
“Embeds: Excellent. Databases, synced blocks, files, videos, and external content.”
“My take: Logseq wins for pure outlining; Notion wins for combining hierarchy with visual document layout.”
“Notion makes this relatively intuitive with visual drop indicators.”
“Notion has improved its loading and database performance considerably.”
“Long documents: Good for structured documents, but very large, complex pages can feel heavy.”
“However, its own documentation identifies large databases, complex filters, formulas, rollups, and multiple inline databases as potential sources of slowdowns.”
“Obsidian — the Markdown-first editor”
“Embeds: Excellent for local notes, images, PDFs, audio, videos, and transclusions.”
“Long documents: Generally one of the strongest choices, particularly for text-heavy documents.”
“Its local Markdown-file architecture is a significant advantage.”
“You can also split a large document into smaller files and embed sections elsewhere.”
“Plugins can add overhead”
“Anytype — the visual, object-oriented block editor”
“Drag and drop: Excellent, including moving blocks into parent/child relationships and columns.”
“Nesting: Strong, with objects and nested content.”
“Embeds: Supports media, PDFs, diagrams, YouTube, maps, and other integrations.”
“Anytype offers particularly flexible parent/child and column arrangements.”
“Long documents: Good for modular content, but enormous pages with thousands of blocks can become sluggish.”
“But I wouldn't assume that a page with thousands of blocks will be as responsive as a straightforward Markdown document.”
“Logseq — the outliner-first editor”
“Drag and drop: Excellent for reorganizing outline blocks.”
“Nesting: Arguably its strongest feature. Every bullet can contain children.”
“Embeds: Block references, linked pages, queries, and embedded content.”
“My take: Logseq wins for pure outlining; Notion wins for combining hierarchy with visual document layout.”
“Its newer database architecture has brought improvements to large-graph performance, though.”
“Long documents: Can struggle with exceptionally large individual pages, although its newer database architecture has introduced performance improvements.”
“There are documented cases of performance problems with pages containing hundreds or thousands of blocks.”