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Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by andreasley »

kyawzazaw wrote: post #18
jackson1442 wrote: post #4

This changes a lot for me. I like Notion's interface, as well as the functionality included. It feels like a desktop app, which Google Docs simply can't compete with (they're also Google products, do with that what you will). The "blocks" limit always felt arbitrary on Free, so I never really got into it, but now that I can use this like I would normally use a note-taking app, I can see it being very valuable. edit:…

free for edu users since Sep 2019.

Accredited college or university only (e.g. no elementary or high schools). Also currently no discount for team plans.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by GordonS »

fastball wrote: post #43
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... You have a cookie pop-up that says, "Can we use cookies?" but the only option is a "Yes" button. If you're not giving people a choice, why even pretend?

Tracking scripts / cookies are only loaded if you click "Yes", otherwise they are not loaded at all.

But if you don't tap "yes" there is no way to dismiss it. Not a fan of this behaviour, and won't be looking any further.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by gkoberger »

avolcano wrote: post #5

This is kinda weird, because I was happily giving them $4/month after running out of space in their trial plan, and now I absolutely have no reason to keep giving them money. Which, sure, I guess I'll take it. My $4/month isn't going to make or break their business and they probably barely give a shit about getting money for personal usage. Does remind me that my usage of their app doesn't align with their business m…

Github just did the same thing! It’s because the math works like this: They’d need 1,000 people to pay them $4 to match a single enterprise company paying them $4k/mo. So they just need one of those 1,000 people to bring Notion into their company, and they’re ahead. If they get 10, they’re way ahead. (This is slightly simplified, of course)

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by edjrage »

txcwpalpha wrote: post #42
edjrage wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhh... Have you tried reading past that? They literally list pretty much all of the most important features right there (though I believe not all of them). They even show which services each feature replaces. It's true there is marketing speak sprinkled throughout it, but all in all it's the opposite of the "nothing but marketing speak" trend most services follow.

Yes. Here are some excerpts from the (very minimally descriptive) page: > Write better. Think more clearly. Get organized. Totally useless in terms of explaining what the product is. >A simple, beautiful writing experience, with 30+ types of content to add. Great, so I can... write things in it? What are these 30 types of content? It doesn't even give examples. > Turn your tribal knowledge into easy-to-find answers.…

I just read it again and it's true there's a lot of marketing speak, but it seems you've been blinded by it and ignored all of the rest.

It's great to have these questions and insightful answers. The thing is you've said your friend is nuts about it, but apparently haven't bothered to ask them the same questions you're asking here. Not only that, you do seem to be fairly interested in knowing what it's about, but you don't seem to have read anything about it at all, so maybe you could have at least followed the hacker spirit and... I don't know, scanned for the links on the top of the page... and formed a basic opinion?

https://www.notion.so/product

https://www.notion.so/wikis (I've just seen you can even try a live demo without signing up)

https://www.notion.so/projects

https://www.notion.so/notes

(There are more, but I believe you get the idea)

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by paxys »

franky47 wrote: post #23

The one thing that bothers me about Notion (and Slack and other "everything in one place" tools), is the lack of encryption. I might have FAANGophobia, but whenever there is a free tier without a form of end-to-end encryption in place, it feels like a data puddle waiting to become a lake. That being said, having clear-text data would allow features like an API on publicly shared pages/blocks, to use Notion as a CMS.…

I'm assuming you are talking about end-to-end encryption, which in case of tools like Slack doesn't really make sense because it's the company that owns and has total control of the data, not you the end user. What happens when they need to hand over records for discovery, for example?

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by andreasley »

nisuni wrote: post #38

If they only had a native Mac application. I love Notion, but the Mac client feels so sluggish, I didn’t investigative but looks like a web view or Electron or something similar.

Correct, it's Electron. And yes, I wish it were native, too.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by Scarbutt »

pcx wrote: post #49

I love using Notion, but I think the general discussion about it does not talk enough about how it's flexibility is also a problem many times. 1. Flexibility of blocks is a cognitive overhead for most folks in my team. They would rather prefer more constrained and opinionated approaches like Trello 2. Notion is currently a jack of all trades and master of none. We have tried to use it as a wiki, project tracker, issu…

Sounds like the curse of Emacs.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by drukenemo »

nisuni wrote: post #38

If they only had a native Mac application. I love Notion, but the Mac client feels so sluggish, I didn’t investigative but looks like a web view or Electron or something similar.

I agree, too sluggish for me to bother.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by fabrika »

lm2s wrote: post #36

Notion consuming 10-15% CPU while on idle is a deal breaker to me. I wish they'd devote a bit more resources to fix this. (On macOS, don't know if this is the case on other OSes)

On iPadOS it ignores pointer and external keyboard. Wish their apps were more native to the platforms.
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