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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

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This seems like a mash-up of Air Table and Quip. I'm curious to see how the functionality compares for day-to-day tasks.

And Coda.io

I just started using Coda.io now and I already think it's amazing. It's like Excel in Word (Or Javascript in HTML) with superpowers and it's very usable.

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

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post #9

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

This is one thing I've wanted. A local app that lets me store all my data with markdown syntax, syntax highlighting, in local files and directories, specifically for macOS although a cross platform app would be fine. One that doesn't require an account or the internet at all for it to work. I've wanted this kind of app for many years (and wouldn't be opposed to making it if no existing solution is all that great at i…

The interface is that of a notes app rather than a board like Notion, but I just started using Joplin for this and have been really liking it so far.

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

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post #39

For me, Notion replaced Evernote and I haven't looked back. Three features that have been particularly useful for personal productivity are 1) explicit support for Kanban board-ing tasks and similar to-do management 2) collapsible blocks 3) substantially smoother linking to, or embedding, notes within notes Notion is just as sleek as Evernote for small independent notes, but these two features allow Notion to scale m…

How's the search ? evernote's search sucks. Is this significantly better?

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

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post #30

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

(disclaimer: I'm building something similar) Why is it every time something like Notion is mentioned, there is always someone who wants "local, self-hosted, Markdown"? Just build it yourself. This clearly shows you have no understanding of the product at hand. Notion is so incredibly powerful that Markdown doesn't even scratch the surface here.

Friends don't let friends use web apps. Aside from privacy concerns, relying on someone else's server functioning and being forced to use whatever the newest "improved" version are all strikes against em. Who needs another login collected by someone else (so trustworthy) that you fill with credentials that will be stolen in a hack revealed a few years down the line? There's never any real consequences for service providers. It's best not to use new web services for anything important.

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

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post #70
post #62

I am uncomfortable to put all personal thoughts, diaries, etc into a non-self-hosting place. Can they dockerize this and sell that so I can self-host the docker image instead? for people that is not tech-savvy, what about they buy a docker-container-hosted-by-the-vendor-company but can encrypt the contents in a way that nobody else can peek into the content ever?

That sounds like a good feature - I think the app is trying to replace current jira etc functionality for now, is that something that Jira and other offer?

jira offers task linking, which I don't think notion does.
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