Folio blog: Comparisons
Folio and other tools side by side, with the trade-offs stated.
Posts tagged Comparisons
Notion vs Obsidian for a team: what each one gives you, and when neither fits
A table of Notion and Obsidian by the same seven criteria, checked against their own documentation on November 2, 2026: where the data lives, offline, working together, permissions, AI and API, price and self-hosting. Then when each fits, and what to use when neither does.
- Comparisons
- Obsidian
Mermaid vs PlantUML: which to use for docs in Git
Both draw diagrams from text. Mermaid runs in a browser and renders on GitHub, GitLab and in Obsidian; PlantUML covers more UML types but needs Java. A table of syntax, types, rendering, support and licenses, with sources, and where each fits.
- Comparisons
- Docs as code
Confluence MCP, Notion MCP and a wiki that is its own MCP server
Atlassian and Notion run official MCP servers in their clouds. A third route is a wiki that is itself the MCP server: on your host, with the user's rights, edits in Git history that people see. What each gives an agent, how to connect Folio, and when to pick which.
- AI & MCP
- Confluence
- Comparisons