Life without AI
Started by MacSE
on 9/13/2026
MacSE
9/13/2026 5:15 am
Hello, unlike many people here, I’m currently trying to organise myself without AI. This worries me, whether rightly or wrongly.
For my personal organisation, I use Notion a lot. At first, you had to pay extra to access the AI features. Now, the AI is free – although it’s no doubt subject to certain limitations – and I’ve just discovered in the settings that it’s impossible to delete all the AI models; you have to select at least one.
So I’m looking for an app to which I can safely migrate my data; people have suggested Craft, Joplin, Zoho Notes, Obsidian with the Dataview plugin – though that requires a learning curve – or even Omnioutliner…
I need Notion’s ‘databases’ feature: tables containing text data (names, dates, phone numbers, etc.) as well as numbers, and the ability to perform calculations on certain columns, such as adding up a column of numbers.
I don’t wish to start a debate here about the security of AI, although I do think it would be worth it, but simply to find a tool that meets my needs.
Do you have any suggestions? Thank you for your help.
For my personal organisation, I use Notion a lot. At first, you had to pay extra to access the AI features. Now, the AI is free – although it’s no doubt subject to certain limitations – and I’ve just discovered in the settings that it’s impossible to delete all the AI models; you have to select at least one.
So I’m looking for an app to which I can safely migrate my data; people have suggested Craft, Joplin, Zoho Notes, Obsidian with the Dataview plugin – though that requires a learning curve – or even Omnioutliner…
I need Notion’s ‘databases’ feature: tables containing text data (names, dates, phone numbers, etc.) as well as numbers, and the ability to perform calculations on certain columns, such as adding up a column of numbers.
I don’t wish to start a debate here about the security of AI, although I do think it would be worth it, but simply to find a tool that meets my needs.
Do you have any suggestions? Thank you for your help.
