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Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#51
I love the product, but the login workflow is awful. Why innovate on logins? We've solved that problem.

Specifically, the login is a randomly-generated one-time code sent to your email address. Notion says this is more secure than them storing a username+password, but that's a dubious argument. They've also said this is two-factor auth (lolno). A side effect of this is that Notion is unusable on my mobile device since I have no email on it.

I really hope they implement a more traditional login system. Until then, I'm sticking with Evernote. :(

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#52
post #45

So how does Notion make money? By mining your tasks/knowledge base articles? Analytics? Serving ads?

https://www.notion.so/pricing

Basically it's free to start with limited data/upload and then a small ($4) monthly for a personal subscription that is unlimited. Team and Enterprise subscriptions from there.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#54
Does anyone use this with their spouse / significant other? Seems like a great tool to have shared docs, lists, todos, etc. I'm thinking things like house and car maintenance, financial planning, shopping lists, and all the other things that I normally keep in a combination of Google Docs and Apple Notes.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#55
post #6

We use it to keep track of all Of our tasks and projects. Switched to it after getting annoyed with Asana and not wanting to use something like Jira. We love how freeform it is and allowed us to create a workflow that fit us. There are some gripes I have with it, notifications are still hit or miss despite talking to support about it multiple times - they’ll be delayed or missed altogether if you’ve recently opened t…

We use Asana at work. What annoyances did you have with Asana that are solved with Notion?

- tasks getting lost easily (still somewhat of an issue with notion but custom database views sorted by due date solves)

- not showing today on top like it used to, unwilling to change or add an option (same as above, database views are awesome)

- forcing us into a flow that didn't really fit the way we worked (notion lets us have a completely custom flow)

- no good way to have documentation stored in

- limited ability to document tasks, like images inline with the description, code blocks, etc.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#57
post #54

Does anyone use this with their spouse / significant other? Seems like a great tool to have shared docs, lists, todos, etc. I'm thinking things like house and car maintenance, financial planning, shopping lists, and all the other things that I normally keep in a combination of Google Docs and Apple Notes.

yes! we did start using it and loved it, until we realized needing to pay $20/month for it -- which was a bit out of our current budget.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#58
post #38

This isn't self-hosted? I'm interested in a self-hosted solution that uses local markdown files and directories to manage content.

But they're trying to run a business, so why ask the question as if it's surprising?

Why would running a business prevent them from offering a self-hosted solution? Look at Confluence, if you need examples.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#59
Glad to see this here, it's a very well-built product that finds the perfect balance between strict JIRA/PM tools and completely unstructured wikis/text files.

Everything is a "block" and blocks can be nested and attached together to create pages/subpages, tables, kanban boards, calendars, etc. It's a very nice way of working and everything loads fast. The sharing links are nice too.

Only feedback would be fixing some UI issues that can be a little too sensitive, with an errant keypress or misclick changing everything.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#60
Not sure how this product (if it's new) isn't running afoul on Presonus' trademarks for "Notion".

https://www.presonus.com/products/Notion

Presonus' product is for music but it is a software product, it is trademarked, and it is older than this one AFAICT.

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