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Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by txcwpalpha »

travisjungroth wrote: post #27
txcwpalpha wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Have you ever used Confluence? Yes. Is Notion a Confluence competitor? I guess I'm struggling to understand it because my aforementioned friend talks about how he uses Notion for basically every possible use case under the sun (probably even some where it's not meant for that but he found some way to finagle it). Based on that knowledge, I still don't really know what Notion is meant for other than being just-anothe…

I don't think it's especially great at note taking. I'd prefer a different directory structure for that. The love for it makes more sense if you think of it as a really simple website builder. You can have a database of pages with structured data, unstructured data, and nice layout. That sounds simple, but it covers a lot of use cases. If you check out communities talking about Notion, you'll see the layout stuff is…

>to the point of productivity porn

I think this is what's mostly caused some confusion for me, so thanks for taking the time to explain it a bit. I've seen tons of stuff about how to customize Notion to fit personal preferences and specific layouts, and that kind of drowns out the actual discussion about what those customizations/layouts are used to accomplish.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by ggregoire »

TL;DR for the people already paying $4/month:

You can downgrade to the free plan for which the number of blocks is not limited anymore, or keep paying paying $4/month for a bunch of extra features.

From the FAQ:

    What if I'm already paying for the old Personal Plan?

    You've been automatically upgraded to our new Personal Pro Plan at no extra cost!

    In addition to all the features of the free Personal Plan, Personal Pro includes:

    - No limit on file uploads (5MB is the limit for free)

    - Unlimited guest collaborators (5 guests is the limit for free)

    - Version history up to 30 days

    - Priority customer support

    - API access (coming soon)

    You can switch back to the free Personal Plan at any time.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by edjrage »

txcwpalpha wrote: post #72
edjrage wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>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? or I could ask about it on a forum that is dedicated to discussing topics exactly like this? As you can see, other commenters have given some great insight that is infinitely more helpful than "just go read the website", and is definitely more insightful than th…

To be clear, I didn't say you shouldn't have asked. I just suggested you inform yourself minimally before you do. I believe this is better for everyone involved, but ymmv.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by zakk »

threatofrain wrote: post #2

I know it's a niche need but any note-taking app I use needs to support Latex and code highlighting. Unfortunately, once I throw this criteria in just about every app gets excluded, but at least VSC + sync is still very nice.

Try Quiver!

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by prennert »

Scarbutt wrote: post #58
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.

I just started using orgmode to compliment notion. So far it feels to me as Notion is a bit like emacs / orgmode without API, and orgmode is a bit like notion without collaboration.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by the-dude »

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…

I assume this is on the frontpage because of the Microsoft announcements.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by awill »

After Evernote started going downhill, I moved to plain markdown inside a Google Drive folder. I use the best, native app for each platform and have zero risk of being affected by a single company cancelling, closing,, increasing the price etc..

Notion does seem pretty interesting, but if they ever shut, stop innovating, or are outshined by a competitor, I don't fancy the idea of moving everything

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by pcx »

munchbunny wrote: post #79
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…

Yup, Notion and OneNote occupy similar scenarios for me. It's where I can gather my compiled thoughts and notes, but I've had trouble implementing any team processes on it due to it not being constrained enough in its UI. I don't think there's any easy answer here. I respect the Notion team a lot for making a tool that is so flexible, but it's also a curse in some key scenarios.

Yeah. I see that it works great for some scenarios, like when I and my co-founder are collaborating. But if I try to teach it to a sales guy, I can see he just hates it :(
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