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Notion Timeline View

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Re: Notion Timeline View

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Fabulous that Notion now have Gantt charts. Only things that are missing for planning heaven now is being able to declare dependencies and timelines moving automatically on schedule change.

Notion now has a timeline, it's not a Gantt chart :) What you said next is a Gantt chart.

A timeline for scheduling is a Gantt chart. Dependencies wasn't part of the first versions of the Gantt charts.

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Anyone have insight into how they built this? Custom Gantt solution or you think they bought one? There are no good and free JS gantt libraries, but many, many paid ones. I've been trying to find a good one for Portabella ( https://portabella.io ) as they're an essential part of project management platforms, but no luck yet.

You're right, there are no good and free JS libraries for gantt charts (or even timelines). It is a non-trivial problem domain.

I know, because I helped build a product (https://peachyplan.com) much like Notion's timeline view :)

The notion team did a phenomenal job. This is one of the best timeline views I've seen, and I've looked at hundreds.

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I find the same. For my workflows the performance gets in the way. I saw another similar tool the other day by the same guys that did Linear (which I love ) that looked awesome. If we weren’t deeply embedded with Notion now I’d give it a try. https://www.getoutline.com/

Was curious about Linear, assuming you meant https://linear.app/ ?

Indeed. We switched to it a few months back and I couldn’t be happier. The interface is lovely, especially for a power user. Performance is killer. We actually had a call with them about their architecture and borrowed some ideas for our own product.

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I have some serious data privacy concerns with Notion. The excruciating slowness of the platform in all its forms and iterations is also completely unworkable. A real shame as I really need something like this in my life - both personal and professional.

Take a look at Portabella ( https://portabella.io ), we're not feature complete with Notion but making serious progress!

I don't see a way to self host it. Are you willing to consider it? It seems like you're targeting a particular niche and not having it open source or self hostable seems like a mistake.

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I have some serious data privacy concerns with Notion. The excruciating slowness of the platform in all its forms and iterations is also completely unworkable. A real shame as I really need something like this in my life - both personal and professional.

Take a look at Portabella ( https://portabella.io ), we're not feature complete with Notion but making serious progress!

I actually will.

Am also keeping an eye on https://anytype.io but I still haven't been drawn for their closed alpha grrrr

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I have some serious data privacy concerns with Notion. The excruciating slowness of the platform in all its forms and iterations is also completely unworkable. A real shame as I really need something like this in my life - both personal and professional.

Can you elaborate on what some of those data privacy concerns are? I’ve centralized more and more in Notion and I’m admittedly a layperson when it comes to really understanding what questions I should even ask to judge the security of something like Notion.

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I have some serious data privacy concerns with Notion. The excruciating slowness of the platform in all its forms and iterations is also completely unworkable. A real shame as I really need something like this in my life - both personal and professional.

I mentioned https://www.getoutline.com/ below that I haven’t tried but looks great. Would be interested in hearing from anyone who’s tried it.

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I have some serious data privacy concerns with Notion. The excruciating slowness of the platform in all its forms and iterations is also completely unworkable. A real shame as I really need something like this in my life - both personal and professional.

Take a look at Portabella ( https://portabella.io ), we're not feature complete with Notion but making serious progress!

Looks nice ! Sorry I couldn’t find the help, is there a way to format tables in the documents ? (sadly for me “portobella table“ is basically impossible to web search...)

Re: Notion Timeline View

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Notion is a great tool and I recommend it as a solid "all-around" personal-wiki / notetaking tool. That being said, the fact that it's electron-based means it's not always as snappy as I'd like it to be when I want to quickly capture a thought -- sometimes the "page" has to reload, even when I'm using the desktop app. I also notice that like slack, it suffers from the same in-line text formatting woes, which can be i…

Always a complaint about Electron on here. Frankly, Notion and it’s ilk would not be nearly has great or feature rich without Electron. It perhaps wouldn’t even exist. Trust, it being an Electron app is a good thing for you, despite its limitations.

You’re absolutely right. If the performance boost afforded by native apps was more important than the feature set provided native would be winning over electron. But it’s not. If you think I’m wrong you should be excited because there is a massive market opportunity for you.

Re: Notion Timeline View

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I have some serious data privacy concerns with Notion. The excruciating slowness of the platform in all its forms and iterations is also completely unworkable. A real shame as I really need something like this in my life - both personal and professional.

I share your concerns, that's why I made sure they are GDPR compliant before becoming a subscriber. If you're not based in the UK or EU, say you're in the US... well good luck. Swiss cheese has fewer holes than US privacy laws!

Having said all that, as a user of Notion I've been incredibly impressed. Their support staff seem friendly and responsive and they keep making the product better and better.

My only gripes are the weird password email confirmation of the mobile app login, and that I can't use it as a Zettelkasten.

Other than that, it really is fantastic. The Kanban and other features meant that it's replaced other apps I was using for both work and personal. It really is worth a try.

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