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Moment is distinctive because (1) it's natively programmable, and (2) has a native, high-performance, live collaborative editing.

For (1), programmability is why our templates[1] are generally so rich. See, e.g, our NES emulator[2] or our SQLite Explorer[3], both of which would be vastly harder to accomplish in Notion. It's even much harder in Obsidian, which is Markdown-first! Both templates took ~30 minutes of work with `claude`, and to do something similar with their respective extension APIs would have take orders of magnitude more time, especially to publish.

For (2), actually-working live collaborative editing is pretty hard to come by on Markdown-based docs editors. If you don't think you need this, the offering will be less compelling. My opinion is that many people who think they don't need this in a team setting end up being surprised how big a barrier this is when they try to use Obsidian as the central knowledge base for a team setting. Notion is extremely buggy and sometimes very slow, but in almost all cases I've seen, that ends up being worth the trade-off of not having to write code or get everyone to use the exact same extension set. Just my 2 cents though.

[1]: https://www.moment.dev/templates

[2]: https://www.moment.dev/templates/75ovowgp6jnv6lofwu60bx1d1

[3]: https://www.moment.dev/templates/4m8zt4ne0bnqfb4hjtcwm2fob



You can make a NES emulator, that's neat! I'm probably not your target audience it seems. I don't know why a large amount of programmability is beneficial for a knowledge document system. Then again, I don't generally like my notes to be much fancier than text when possible so I can read it on any device or platform.




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