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Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by marvinblum » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:33 PM UTC

haolez wrote: post #196

marvinblum wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah good. Well what language do you need then? As I said we support English and German. The articles you write can be multilingual.

Portuguese Brazil, but my team would gladly translate it for you.

That would be incredible! It's actually not that much to translate I think. Read my comment above and I might come back to you.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by machbio » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:34 PM UTC

rammy1234 wrote: post #101

I use basecamp for my personal organization. calendar, to-dos and share with my spouse. Its perfect. It's intuitive and easy to use. why not basecamp ?

I use basecamp - but how do you do wiki, notes type of things in basecamp ?

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by robotblake » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:36 PM UTC

natemwilson wrote: post #107

skipnup wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you recommend a markdown native app for Windows? Currently switching to simple markdown notes myself but a bit annoyed always opening VS Code for a tiny note.

Notable is great and open source. https://notable.md/

According to https://github.com/notable/notable/blob/master/SOURCE_CODE.m... the current version is no longer open-source.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by ak217 » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:44 PM UTC

I'm interested in Notion, but I can't get over the fact that they use a Somalia TLD for their app. I'm just not sure why they have to use this TLD for what I assume is vanity purposes, and I think there are security implications to using it.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by fellowniusmonk » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:46 PM UTC

Notion has similarities to a tool I created for my own personal note taking 6 years ago, I should turn it into a platform and release it.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by ericzawo » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:51 PM UTC

ponyous wrote: post #112

nojito wrote: post #25

Notion is the embodiment of busy work --> false sense of being productive.

It's also a genuinely good note taking app that works on all platforms I care about as opposed to Apple Notes.

FWIW you can access your Apple Notes through icloud.com.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by AlphaWeaver » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:52 PM UTC

Last week, Notion leaked this pricing change accidentally on their dev instance. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23186295

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by dive » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:59 PM UTC

I tried the Notion twice. It looks good, works fine and has a reasonable price. But. You cannot write notes in this application. Literally. You can build tables, resize images, align lists in different shapes, have a dashboard for all thousand cases you have with favourites photos as headers, filter views with a million conditions, manage to-dos and project with kanban, ..., but you cannot write simple notes. The interface will fight you, mouse/trackpad are required in many cases, Enter key will produce different unexpected results...

This is a good piece of software. But if you want to take simple linked notes, then you probably need something else.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by tinodotim » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:59 PM UTC

nelaboras wrote: post #159

the-dude wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

no they just anounced this today

Timing of the announcement isn't a coincidence though I'd guess.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by marvinblum » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:59 PM UTC

zerubeus wrote: post #197

How this replaces Google Drive the other time I can't upload a file larger than 4gb ?!

It's not a replacement for Drive as most note taking app are... well for note taking and not file storages. I would recommend to use Dropbox if you want both in one tool or separate those two use cases.