Notion

No export, becausenothing was locked in.

Notion keeps your pages in its own database. Ritemark keeps each document as a file on your computer.

Notion is the better shared workspace. This page is about what happens to the writing itself.

A document open in Ritemark, which is a markdown file in your own folder

Your folder is the workspace.

Recent documents are paths you recognise, because that is exactly where they live.

The recent documents list in Ritemark, each with its folder path

The data sits beside the writing.

Open and edit CSV and Excel in the same window, instead of pasting numbers into a page that owns them.

An onboarding funnel spreadsheet being edited in Ritemark

Where each one wins

Notion

Real-time collaboration, shared workspaces, databases and views for a team.

Ritemark

Files you own, agents in the sidebar, and nothing to migrate later.

Both

Export to Word and PDF, and both read your existing documents.

Keep your next document as a file.

Free and open source.