Synap vs Obsidian
The same ownership. Zero maintenance.
Obsidian proved that you can own your knowledge. Synap takes that further — no manual link maintenance, no plugin juggling, no folder taxonomy to curate. AI handles the connections.Obsidian
Files on disk — you own your data
Manual link maintenance required
Plugin ecosystem to manage
No structured entities or typed relations
Synap
Sovereign pod — you own the server
Auto-relationships — no manual linking
Built-in AI — no plugin required
Typed entity graph, not just markdown
Auto-relationships, not manual links
In Obsidian, you manually create [[wiki-links]] between notes. In Synap, AI detects connections between your captures automatically — who wrote a paper, what project an idea belongs to, which tasks block each other.
Structured entities, not just files
Obsidian treats everything as a markdown file. Synap knows that a person, a task, and a research paper are different things — each with the right properties, typed relationships, and queryable structure. Same ownership. Much more power.
