I tried a few different options for note taking, including Foam[1], Roam[2], and now Dendron[3]. Dendron has been the best fit for me because it's built on VS Code (I already know my way around and can be more productive in it), and has a great team & community supporting it.
Markdown in a git repo is so much better than anything else I've tried.
LogSeq is another interesting tool in this space. Its primary differentiator seems to be letting you attach arbitrary key-value attributes to pages and blocks and then query things in your workspace to create ad-hoc tables. https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/advanced%20queries
What I really like about LogSeq is the Journal feature that you can specify a template for, and the ability to query TODOs across all of your notes. I take meeting notes and add in action items and they all get collected up and organized using my queries that filter and order by due date. The way they’re presented also lets you easily jump back to the context where the TODO was created.
It’s a prolog based query language so it took a bit of time to learn but now it helps me stay organized and on top of all the stuff I need to do.
While we're shilling for Obsidian, I'd like to plug "Obsidian-Admonition"[0], which has been a gamechanger in the way I take notes. It's a simple extension of Markdown protocols with an enormous amount of flexibility for adding block-styled content. If you've ever wanted to glitz up your notes with some documentation-styled content blocks, this is for you!
I looked into Dendron after this thread, but the graphing is just so much worse than foam that I will pass. Creating a graph is super slow for some reason, zooming in and out is done in big increment instead of being granular, it doesn't show the direction of the links and as soon as you zoom out, it hides the name of the nodes.
I also just like the fact foam uses pure simple markdown and just uses the first heading as the node title in the graph.
Markdown in a git repo is so much better than anything else I've tried.
[1] https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ [2] https://roamresearch.com/ [3] https://dendron.so/