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Re: Notion for everyone

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post #89

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

Just you wait until Google sunsets Drive...

Re: Notion for everyone

#113
Does Notion work offline?I tried Notion way back when they launched, but at the time I was not willing to pay for it. I then switched to Coda, which was free, but had awful offline capabilities. I then gave up for a while and just went back to google documents which loaded offline without any issues.

Re: Notion for everyone

#114
If I’ve understood it right, looking at the homepage and the FAQ, Notion is tied to its own cloud service for storing information, and there’s no way to use it as a standalone app storing data locally and sync information through an unrelated service on my own (using, say, Dropbox for example)? If yes, then this is not for me.

Re: Notion for everyone

#115

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.

Joplin[0] supports code highlighting and TeX math. I assume you just need TeX for equations, not for the whole document. It's also open source, and works with several different sync back-ends. I've been using it for some time and am very happy with it so far.

0 - https://joplinapp.org/

Re: Notion for everyone

#116
post #102

I mentioned this before. Notion is great, but the fact that they use fullstory (session recording) for a note taking app is a huge problem for me. We’re talking about potentially sensitive data being available to notion and perhaps fullstory employees for the sake of improving UX. I especially dislike the fact that they don’t disclose session recording upfront. I found out by inspecting their app webpage. Sure there’…

Hi Yabood, we actually don't use Fullstory anymore due to privacy concerns. We removed it 6-9 months ago from all platforms. If you're still seeing this somewhere please let me know so we can address it.

Does Notion have access to the content of my notes if they're compelled to produce them?

Do employees have access to the content of my notes?

Re: Notion for everyone

#117
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.

Certainly is, though slowly but surely you zero in on the "best configuration" for yourself. Whereas when I was using vscode, onenote, google keep, and a bunch of other shit to manage everything, I had "topped out" at productivity.

I'm trash at vim (I use evil-mode), org mode, and org-agenda, but I'm still lightyears ahead of where I was 2 years ago before I used these tools.

Re: Notion for everyone

#118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Yabood, we actually don't use Fullstory anymore due to privacy concerns. We removed it 6-9 months ago from all platforms. If you're still seeing this somewhere please let me know so we can address it.

Does Notion have access to the content of my notes if they're compelled to produce them? Do employees have access to the content of my notes?

Yes they do. Read the T&C.

Re: Notion for everyone

#119
This is a perfect example of an app that you would want to self-host rather than give random people your personal data on a plate. The ability to self-host should be taught at schools so that everybody should be independent and actually own their own data.

Re: Notion for everyone

#120

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.

Nothing has beaten having a local Hugo server running (with a theme that has Katex and syntax highlighting). Note taking can be like blogging to yourself, and the flat markdown means it's easy to edit and search. I don't have the time to learn orgmode, which I'm sure is better.
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