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Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by ericax »

tinodotim wrote: post #269
ericax wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the interest! Not yet, currently most of our users bring their own sync (Dropbox etc.), so if you edit the same document in real time that might create conflict copies. We're working on a sync service with end-to-end encryption (for convenience, completely optional), and we might improve it to support real-time collaboration in the future.

Will there also be an option for client-side encryption without using your sync service?

We might provide a plugin in the future to achieve this.

Right now I think the closet thing is to use set up an encrypted folder with a third party app to use with Obsidian.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by careyrouse »

I don't think Notion is for everyone. One of the limitations that I’ve seen with products like Notion is permissions. They don't offer granular permissions for viewing and editing down to the column, row or cell level. That is one of the reasons why I created cloudternal.com.

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Post by empath75 »

jdhornby wrote: post #75
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…

I’ve had a similar experience with Notion. “Jack of all trades and master of none” resonates strongly with me. This lead me to my latest startup https://froosthq.com/ which is Notion inspired and aimed solely at software teams.

Imo github is eventually going to subsume all of this activity. People don’t want to go to more than one place.

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Post by the_monocle »

jdhornby wrote: post #75
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…

I’ve had a similar experience with Notion. “Jack of all trades and master of none” resonates strongly with me. This lead me to my latest startup https://froosthq.com/ which is Notion inspired and aimed solely at software teams.

I really like the jetbrains solution to this problem. https://www.jetbrains.com/space/

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Post by taude »

unfunco wrote: post #111
awill wrote: 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...

easy to move your files to another cloud storage drive. OP was talking not being tied in at the software level.

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Post by falcor84 »

empath75 wrote: post #274
jdhornby wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve had a similar experience with Notion. “Jack of all trades and master of none” resonates strongly with me. This lead me to my latest startup https://froosthq.com/ which is Notion inspired and aimed solely at software teams.

Imo github is eventually going to subsume all of this activity. People don’t want to go to more than one place.

If Microsoft could have subsumed "all of this activity", it would have by now. This all goes in cycles and there's always room for disruption.

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Post by paxys »

franky47 wrote: post #249
paxys wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Please elaborate what you mean by discovery ?

It's a legal term - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(law). Most countries/industries have some kind of regulation around data storage and retention for exactly this purpose.
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