Published May 12, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration, troubleshooting weird problems, and using open-source tools in the real world. He also works a lot with Windows systems and networking, especially in mixed environments where things don't always behave the way the documentation says they should. Writing things down is how he makes sense of it all and hopefully saves someone else a few hours. With its databases, linked views, and relational tables, Notion can start to feel indispensable. The level of depth and organization it provides is hard to find in other apps. I was using Notion for all sorts of things : tracking project changes, my reading lists, a personal wiki, and task management. But one thing never quite sat right with me. It was a lot of data sitting on someone else's servers.…