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Notion – Document Reimagined

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Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

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Post by lobster_johnson »

savant wrote: post #21

Does anyone know if there is a JS editor that acts similar to how notion works? I've seen a similar pattern with readme.io, and would love to be able to use it for internal tools.

For "WYSIWYG" content editing, ProseMirror looks like the best implementation so far [1]. Pure JS editor without the buggy contenteditable stuff. I'm sure that it can be extended to support other "rich" objects such as todo lists.

[1] http://prosemirror.net/index.html

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

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Post by lobster_johnson »

gravity13 wrote: post #25
savant wrote: post #21

Does anyone know if there is a JS editor that acts similar to how notion works? I've seen a similar pattern with readme.io, and would love to be able to use it for internal tools.

The closest is ckeditor, I think. But that's still a long shot away. Notion is actually really well constructed (as somebody who's been in the space building tools kinda like it for a while, it's quite impressive). But I agree, the space needs an open source notion...

Seen ProseMirror? http://prosemirror.net/index.html

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

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Post by viraptor »

shredwheat wrote: post #26
viraptor wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's broken? I see it just fine in FF40

(With Firefox 40.0.3) Support for your browser is coming soon. Check out Notion on Google Chrome desktop, Safari, or iPhone. Copy and paste this link into a supported browser to continue: https://www.notion.so/

Right, didn't realise the link here is for early-access (works), not homepage (doesn't).

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

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Post by mrmondo »

viraptor wrote: post #20
giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

This is one of the most gorgeous things I've seen in a while. I'm a little saddened that the homepage doesn't work on Firefox yet.

What's broken? I see it just fine in FF40

Firefox 41.0b9: "Support for your browser is coming soon. Check out Notion on Google Chrome desktop, Safari, or iPhone. "

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

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Post by brianclements »

I know they're slightly different, but this reminds me of Workflowy[1] which pretty much runs my entire life right now (todo, projects, journaling, brainstorming, informal databases, bookmarks). In looking at tools like this, it's hard to know where the line is between simple functions that you then use to create abstract features, and more complicated interfaces that define features explicitly. It's a nuanced thing. With Workflowy, the simple list and tag interface can do much of what Notion does (of course, minus the great design and multimedia support), but you really need a formal workflow and need to stick to it to make it function well. Whereas Notion kind of designs those patterns for you, but at the expense of some interface simplicity. I feel like Workflowy demands more of a unix philosophy to achieve Notions features. You'll need to chain web apps together. For example, you can use hyper links in Workflowy to link to files in dropbox, or host images on some other site and audio/video on another, where Notion puts in all in one spot. Very cool.

I can definitely see this as a great tool in the classroom for creating interactive discussions. Copy a template for each class and you can have everyone collaborate and focus on the discussion, not taking notes (or better still, take notes in the collaborative page itself, things that aren't originally there), and then after you have a record of everything which you can share across all students and with different classes.

[1] https://workflowy.com/

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

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Post by theon144 »

Yes, thank you! I can't try this yet since I only have Firefox at this machine, but alternative note-taking and rethinking computer documents is something I've long waited for.

If anyone knows of any similarly "different" projects, please tell me!

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

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Post by skimpycompiler »

brianclements wrote: post #37

I know they're slightly different, but this reminds me of Workflowy[1] which pretty much runs my entire life right now (todo, projects, journaling, brainstorming, informal databases, bookmarks). In looking at tools like this, it's hard to know where the line is between simple functions that you then use to create abstract features, and more complicated interfaces that define features explicitly. It's a nuanced thing.…

Workflowy reminds me a little bit of a desktop app called Zim, although Workflowy and Notion are prettier.
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