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Notion – Document Reimagined

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Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

#42

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.

That said:

  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/tutorial
This is a whole lot better than a few other (ehem, Google. And, yes, MS, 15 years ago.)

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

#43
Make this able to be self hosted, whip up a price plan for enterprise and add a half-decent API then you've got yourself a lot of customers. Awesome looking product

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

#44
I just got the 'unsupported browser' notice on Chromium. Surely it should work the same here as it does on Chrome?

Gorgeous looking product. Site runs a little slow on my older machine but I suppose that's to be expected with the fancy GIFs.

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

#45
This looks amazing and the onboarding process is really good.

I wanted to have a block based editor for a project but it felt a bit daunting as this was not the main part of that project.

Did you use anything for the wysiwyg or are you just using execCommand?

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

#46
Is there a more-or-less similar thing in Open Source? I'm looking for something like this for quite some time, but would need it to be self-hosted, and what would be even better, end-to-end encrypted (e.g. with shared secret).

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

#47
post #46

Is there a more-or-less similar thing in Open Source? I'm looking for something like this for quite some time, but would need it to be self-hosted, and what would be even better, end-to-end encrypted (e.g. with shared secret).

If you just care about functionality, Leo Editor offers similar features, and adds in being scriptable in Python.

If you also care about usability and zero learning curve, I'm afraid I haven't seen anything similar which is open source, after being searching it for years. The closest thing might be one of several content managers/social networks a la MediaGoblin or Diaspora, or something more flexible you'll need to build your own workflow on some open wiki platform like Twiki or Zwiki.

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

#48
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Evernote has very good PDF support but you need a premium subscription to make it actually useful. I clip PDFs to Evernote and annotate them all the time.

I've been thinking about this a bit today[1], because I fear that Evernote is dying. I love and pay for Evernote, but they've been stagnant for years now. They're slowly adding features, but absolutely nothing that I care about. As far as I can tell, there's really no functional equivalent to what Evernote does: a bucket you can throw data into and search for it later. OneNote probably comes closest from a purely not…

What features do you find missing in OneNote? Genuinely interested, as I use it intensely but don't use Evernote.

Re: Notion – Document Reimagined

#50

Obligatory reference to Xandu and Ted Nelson has to be dropped here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu Very pretty

I think web content creation tools are converging towards the classic notions of hypertext, just like modern programming languages are converging towards what was possible in LISP (but with better^H^H^H^H^H^H syntax) ;-)

These tools are lacking in end-user scriptability though. Something like kimonolabs.com or transformy.io, combined with a WYSIWYM outliner like this, could be the next HyperCards, yet no one (else) has made that connection - yet.

I have ideas on how it should work and put to good use, but I don't have the chops to build it myself.

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