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Sourdough Tracker: the alternative to Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes
What moving from Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes to Sourdough Tracker actually looks like in 2026.
Sourdough Tracker is what people use when Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes stops fitting. Below is the honest side-by-side - same product surface, different posture: hosted in Germany, no third-party trackers, one honest price - plus the migration mechanics that decide whether the switch lands in an evening or in a quarter.
At a glance
A free-form notes app can absolutely hold sourdough notes - I used Notion for two years before building this. The trade-off is the friction of structure: every entry needs to be hand-formatted, you can't filter feeds vs bakes without templating discipline, and 'show me every bake at 75% hydration' is a manual exercise. Sourdough Tracker trades the flexibility of free text for purpose-built fields - rise %, hydration, outcome rating, ambient temp - so the analysis happens by itself. If your bakes are weekly and you care about patterns, the structured version pays back fast.
Switching
What moving from Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes actually looks like
The switch goes in three rough phases: export from Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes, import into Sourdough Tracker, and reorganise what came over. Most people allocate an evening for it. The export side is where the time goes - Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes hands you a CSV/JSON dump and the field mapping isn't always obvious; once that's resolved the import is a couple of minutes. We don't paywall the import path or pretend it's a pro-only feature, and you can run both side-by-side while you decide.
Sourdough Tracker vs Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes: feature comparison
When to pick which
Pick Sourdough Tracker when
Pick Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes when
Export from Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes
Find the export option in Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes's account settings. Most tools provide a CSV or JSON download. Save the dump locally - that's the source of truth for the next step.
Map fields in Sourdough Tracker
Open the import tool in Sourdough Tracker. Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes's field names rarely match Sourdough Tracker' 1:1; the import flags any unmapped columns so you can pair them up before anything commits.
Run the import
Run the import. Sourdough Tracker shows a preview of the first parsed rows in the import dialog so you can sanity-check the column mapping + a sample of records before anything commits. If you're nervous about a large dump, import a small subset first, verify it landed the way you expected, then run the full file.
Re-create your views, tags, saved searches
Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes-specific UI metadata (custom views, saved filters, in-app annotations) doesn't transfer with the data export. Spend an evening rebuilding the views you used most - usually a 30-minute job once you've done it once.
Cancel Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes when you're confident
Run both side-by-side for a couple of weeks if you want to be sure. When you're confident, cancel the Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes subscription from their side. Sourdough Tracker keeps your export option self-serve in account settings - no lock-in either direction.
Switching from Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes
The five questions we get most often before someone moves their data over.
Start with Sourdough Tracker
Free plan, no credit card. We host in Germany. Export + delete are self-serve.
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