Migrating from Notion to Docmost: What You Keep and What You Lose
Docmost, an open-source self-hosted wiki, offers a Notion importer that reconstructs pages, hierarchy, and attachments from a Notion HTML or Markdown export. While prose, formatting, code blocks, and nested page structures transfer largely intact, Docmost has no database functionality, meaning all Notion tables, boards, relations, rollups, and formulas arrive as flat, manually maintained page content. The core decision for any user hinges on how much of their Notion workspace consists of written pages versus structured database records. Writers, documentation-heavy users, and those already running a Postgres-based homelab are likely good candidates for migration, while database-driven users and mobile-first note takers are advised to stay on Notion or run both tools. The trade-off ultimately comes down to exchanging Notion's structured databases and polished mobile experience for full ownership of a self-hosted wiki and its underlying data.
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