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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.
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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.
Is there really a right and wrong yet? There are so many note taking and project management apps, it’s unclear there is yet a dominating leader in usage or tech design.
Moreover, native seems to be losing some traction on the desktop, but on mobile?
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Not sure how this is different from something like Dropbox (which stores stuff on S3 iirc). So technically, you can have Dropbox people looking through your stuff, and you can also have Amazon people looking through your stuff. Obviously, if this ever happens without a good reason, employees that do this can get fired and/or sued (and the company itself might also be held liable). Everything is also logged, so there'…
Not sure about DropBox, but AWS has alot of protections around what goes into S3. I have worked with them to address issues that come up in the service, and they couldn't access our data, even when we would have been fine with it. Had to copy it somewhere else for them. All they could access was a service logs. See https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/
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.
While this has become a thread for talking about alternatives, has anyone found a solution with a premium Latex + markdown experience? So far I've found VSC to be the best experience.
I love the idea of Notion, and I love what the team is trying to do, and I love almost all of Notion. Unfortunately, it's too slow , at least for me. For a tool like that I need it to be a frictionless as possible, and Notion (for me!) is just a bit too annoying for me to put up with after extended usage. If you value features over snappiness, Notion may be great for you though. It's an amazing concept! And I certain…
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Nice try, Outline marketing team ;)
Haha. I’m definitely sounding a bit that way. Though, it’s opensource, so nobody needs to be sold on it. We’re too deep in Notion internally to jump to something else now, but if was going to try anything else, given the Linear.app team’s track record, this would definitely be my first evaluation.
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Not sure how this is different from something like Dropbox (which stores stuff on S3 iirc). So technically, you can have Dropbox people looking through your stuff, and you can also have Amazon people looking through your stuff. Obviously, if this ever happens without a good reason, employees that do this can get fired and/or sued (and the company itself might also be held liable). Everything is also logged, so there'…
A gentleman's agreement with some foreign entity just isn't good enough. At least on Dropbox, S3, OneDrive, etc. we can encrypt our own data (which I actually do). There is no such option in Notion.
I love the idea of Notion, and I love what the team is trying to do, and I love almost all of Notion. Unfortunately, it's too slow , at least for me. For a tool like that I need it to be a frictionless as possible, and Notion (for me!) is just a bit too annoying for me to put up with after extended usage. If you value features over snappiness, Notion may be great for you though. It's an amazing concept! And I certain…
Notion is indeed slow. Slack is slow. Google drive is slow. Trello is slow. Some local/native alternatives can be snappier. Speed and snappiness don’t always come together, but when they do, there is no going back to something even a little slower or less reactive. That’s why I don’t test nor try new hardware until I actually need more than what I have. It’s too strong to resist ;)
I love the idea of Notion, and I love what the team is trying to do, and I love almost all of Notion. Unfortunately, it's too slow , at least for me. For a tool like that I need it to be a frictionless as possible, and Notion (for me!) is just a bit too annoying for me to put up with after extended usage. If you value features over snappiness, Notion may be great for you though. It's an amazing concept! And I certain…
This is way so many just try to fit their the note/task/wiki/etc.. flows to their text editors(vscode,emacs,vim)
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…
> That being said, the fact that it's electron-based means… At my current job, management jumped into the Notion wagon some time ago, then told IT to force-install the desktop web application in every computer. The moment I realized it was an Electron app, I stopped using it. Nowadays, I sporadically open the web application, which is one click away from my browser bookmarks. Safari executes JavaScript code much fast…
Would the apps be just as fast if they used a cocoa web view, or is Safari faster?