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Notion API – public beta

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Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by Areading314 »

villasv wrote: post #28
bnt wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that the whole point of Agile MVP development? Sell something that doesn't exist and hope someone buys it? Personally, I don't expect much from it, after working with Airtable's API and hating every second of it.

You nailed the opposite of an MVP, which is to deliver it immediately and improve it later.

Theres a lot of reasons why it makes sense to sell something before building it. You want to be up front about this fact but getting commitments to buy something is a good idea before actually spending money and time to build it.

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Post by shubhamjain »

I have been using Notion in its API form for a while through notion-py[1]. Currently, it powers my blog[2] and for me, it's a really good integration. I write something, ask my friends to review it. I run a command to publish it, and it's live. The workflow is really, really good and removes a ton of friction because the software that you write in is also the one that powers your blog's content.

Overall, I think Notion API can open up many, many possibilities, since it can become a really good CMS, besides already being a great note-taking tool, and a team app. Notion has millions of users, and it's a huge market already.

Btw, if you're interested in running your blog on Notion, I would love to hear from you! [3]

[1]: https://github.com/jamalex/notion-py

[2]: https://shubhamjain.co/

[3]: https://twitter.com/shubhamjainco

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Post by truth_ »

Nothing is perfect. But if Notion had stylus support and a Linux native client (even Electron), it would be perfect to me.

They said in Twitter that stylus support is a priority, but no plans yet for a Linux client.

And, the Android app is quite clunky, not as good as Android native Notes apps.

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Post by andreilys »

caslon wrote: post #29
andreilys wrote: post #7

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So many other applications out there that don’t hold your data hostage like Notion. I learned after spending an hour to transfer notes that they have a “limit” on the number of “blocks” (aka notes) that I can have. Absolutely terrible user experience and turned me off from ever using Notion. I ended up going open source with vimwiki (and obsidian as a visualization layer, although as comments pointed out it’s not ope…

Obsidian isn't as bad as Notion, but it's also proprietary. Unfortunately, there is no good company in this space.

Doesn’t really matter since the underlying data (markdown files) is what obsidian uses (vs hosting the data on their cloud).

So in the event that they don’t survive or enact policies I disagree with, nothing changes for me

Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by truth_ »

dheera wrote: post #4

I currently use a 1-person Slack workspace instead of Notion because I can write bots to help me with various things. I'll have to see if this API is complete enough to do what I want with Notion.

Do you have a blog or some sort of writeup?

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Post by andreilys »

bachmeier wrote: post #24
andreilys wrote: post #7

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So many other applications out there that don’t hold your data hostage like Notion. I learned after spending an hour to transfer notes that they have a “limit” on the number of “blocks” (aka notes) that I can have. Absolutely terrible user experience and turned me off from ever using Notion. I ended up going open source with vimwiki (and obsidian as a visualization layer, although as comments pointed out it’s not ope…

> I ended up going open source via Obsidian Obsidian is not open source. I'm hesitant to dump my stuff into Obsidian because their markdown has plenty of nonstandard features. You can't run a directory of Obsidian notes through Pandoc and copy the output to your website. I think someone did write a partial converter at some point. This is kind of an issue with all the recent notes apps like Dendron, Logseq, and Athen…

Yea I don’t take notes on Obsidian, it’s all through vimwiki.

The main thing I use obsidian for at this point is visualizing connections between my notes

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Post by andreilys »

nomad225 wrote: post #19
andreilys wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So many other applications out there that don’t hold your data hostage like Notion. I learned after spending an hour to transfer notes that they have a “limit” on the number of “blocks” (aka notes) that I can have. Absolutely terrible user experience and turned me off from ever using Notion. I ended up going open source with vimwiki (and obsidian as a visualization layer, although as comments pointed out it’s not ope…

I had the same experience. It started off great, but I was not a fan of the idea of having all my data hostage with Notion. I'm using emacs with org-mode and org-roam right now, but I still don't have good flow with org-roam. Both Obsidian.md and vimwiki look really cool though. Do you use Obsidian and vimwiki together, or for separate purposes?

I take notes with vimwiki (using tags) and then obsidian is the visualization layer (being able to filter and see what notes are related to one another)

Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by andreilys »

Karunamon wrote: post #23
andreilys wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So many other applications out there that don’t hold your data hostage like Notion. I learned after spending an hour to transfer notes that they have a “limit” on the number of “blocks” (aka notes) that I can have. Absolutely terrible user experience and turned me off from ever using Notion. I ended up going open source with vimwiki (and obsidian as a visualization layer, although as comments pointed out it’s not ope…

The limitation only applies on free accounts, paid accounts for personal usage are extremely cheap, and it has full exportability into markdown and csv. Not sure what you're talking about unless this was a long time ago.

It’s highly unlikely that I’ll continue to use a paid service for 10-20 years, or whether that service is even going to be around. Which is what the whole motivation for having a “second brain” is for me, Having a robust note taking system that I’ll be using for decades to come.

Unlikely that vimwiki or markdown will be going away, can’t say the same thing about Notion.

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