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Post by lilyball »

cristinacordova wrote: post #187
lilyball wrote: post #147

Notion is great. My one complaint is the fact that there's no "family plan". I currently have a free workspace that I share with my spouse, but we're about to hit the 1000 block limit. Notion CS's recommendation was for me to use a personal plan and invite them to each page we want to share, or to create a top-level page that all of the shared pages are nested under and invite them to the top-level page alone, but th…

(Notion here) We agree! The new personal plan enables you to have unlimited pages & blocks and share with up to 5 guests for free. https://www.notion.so/pricing

Guests have to be invited to individual pages though, right? So this means I still need to either invite my spouse to every single shared page (which is problematic if my spouse wants to create a new top-level shared page in my workspace), or nest all the shared stuff under a single top-level page which is annoying (and hurts navigation on mobile).

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Post by Graziano_M »

ericax wrote: post #178

Notion is great, I used to want to build my knowledge base in it, but figured it's not future-proof enough for my needs. And that's part of the reason we went on to build Obsidian ( https://obsidian.md/ ), the local-first knowledge base app. Everything is in plain text Markdown. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/zof4zCj.png Just released 0.6.0 and here's a video for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA…

Other than being local-first, how is this different than roam?

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Post by amineazariz »

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…

Can't agree more. I was using Notion from the very beta start and loved it. Then couples of months in I strated noticing that the more Notion added features the more I was spending more time "perfecting" my workspace than doing actual work.

Stopped using it and went back to old good Google Sheets, Apple Notes. Very constrained and just the right amount of "flexibility" to make it work for you workflow. No emojis encouragements.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by jakaroo »

ralmeida wrote: post #444
yuchi wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The product exists indeed and it’s very stable. Been out there for years.

Froost or Notion? Froost's homepage says "subscribe for early access ".

Yeah. I googled Froost out of curiosity and I was spot on, the project barely has anything but a landing page and a post on Indie Hackers about said landing page launching a few days ago.

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Post by ericax »

Graziano_M wrote: post #462
ericax wrote: post #178

Notion is great, I used to want to build my knowledge base in it, but figured it's not future-proof enough for my needs. And that's part of the reason we went on to build Obsidian ( https://obsidian.md/ ), the local-first knowledge base app. Everything is in plain text Markdown. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/zof4zCj.png Just released 0.6.0 and here's a video for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA…

Other than being local-first, how is this different than roam?

Obsidian uses Markdown, and is not an outliner.

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Post by halfimmortal »

lukestevens wrote: post #350
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…

Notion recently published "How Notion Uses Notion" [0] which I found insightful in terms of how Notion's flexibility is put to work internally. It's interesting seeing where teams hit the limits of the tool & wish for (or move to) something else though. I wonder if "The Notion Way" will emerge at some point, which would be useful for quickly qualifying yourself in or out. [0] https://www.notion.so/How-Notion-Uses-Not…

This is great, thanks for sharing

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by kilgarenone »

atoav wrote: post #369

I've tried so many note/todo/productivity apps throughout the years and I always find myself coming back to one simple solution: - keep your daily todo stuff on a sheet of paper in front of you, transfer the stuff from yesterday onto a fresh sheet before starting to work - keep project specific tasks close to the project. If the project is physical stick a note onto it, if it is git managed code open a issue or add a…

I build a very stripped down to-do list sametable.app as a counterforce to all the all-i n-one platforms.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by rammy1234 »

machbio wrote: post #202
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 ?

I keep a vim open all the time and quickly note it down. End of the day, I transfer it to Basecamp for future tracking or convert that to action items and schedule it
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