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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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Post by mxwsn »

petra wrote: post #75
mxwsn wrote: 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?

I use search way less in Notion than Evernote due to the ability to hierarchically organize notes in a manner that better matches my mental map, to the point where it's hard for me to comment on the quality of search in Notion. I haven't had any complaints with it during the occasional times I have used search though.

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

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Post by KaoruAoiShiho »

cooperadymas wrote: post #36
KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm wondering too, I mean the interface is obviously completely different but it solves the same problems. Why is whatever this interface is better since I already enjoy basecamp? Edit: Also highly enjoy basecamp's pricing.

Does the linked page not answer this? That's what I'm confused about I guess. In a nutshell, the biggest philosophical difference between the two is that Notion is "free form" while Basecamp has a sort of built-in workflow. (Take this with a grain of salt, I haven't used Basecamp since shortly after they rolled out the new interface and it was much more limited then than it is now. And I've only briefly used Notion.)…

The page needs to answer why freeform is better. Basically, explain benefits to the user not features.

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

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Post by techntoke »

bnt wrote: post #30
techntoke wrote: post #7

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.

Markdown and front-matter does scratch the surface, and I do have an understanding of the product. It just isn't what I'm looking for. I care about my data and having it accessible, even outside of the application. I like organizing my content using directories for sections, and files for pages. I don't want everything saved to the cloud using a database. I want to use local files and front-matter to create content, and Hugo does this... I've started building what I'm looking for already.

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

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Post by WalterSear »

ausjke wrote: 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?

I'm developing an ipfs-based personal knowledge manager that works on similar principles.

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

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Post by geekamongus »

mjulian wrote: post #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 sinc…

Agreed. The login scenario has me highly dubious about going all-in with Notion.
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