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Notion API – public beta

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#111
For the folks who find Notion slow or otherwise unreliable, I’d love to hear your feedback on minimal.app (or minimal.app/#beta, depending on where you’re located).

Collaborative Notes just went live, making it a lighter, more focused alternative to Notion.

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#112
I tried Notion for a while, but vendor lock-in makes these tools too risky for me. I'va ahd a good run with git+md notes. A while ago i successfully migrated to org-mode and not looking back.

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#113
post #34

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.

The Windows and Mac apps are just electron - not much advantage over just using it on the browser which has its own advantages.

So, yes, since they are using electron they might as well provide a Linux one too, but I don't see why the lack of one would hold you back.

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#116

For anyone looking for a open source notes app that let's you keep control of your data, have a look at https://joplinapp.org/ .

The biggest thing I'm trying to replace as I move off of Notion is the dynamic lists embedded in notes. I couldn't tell but that doesn't seem like a thing in Joplin; am I missing something?

You mean lists like this: https://www.notion.so/Products-Materials-92c8bdfbcbd049e3a97...

That doesn't exist in Joplin.

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#118

Big fan of notion. Not a fan of the data lock-in or haphazard security. For tools like this, SaaS will almost always beat open source just by virtue of elbow grease and a product direction. So I’m willing to forego the open source alternatives. But I really wish Notion gave me more options for how to host my data. AFAICT they offer no “dedicated storage” or “on premise” plan, even if you want to pay for it. In fact I…

Even pretty established players like Asana don't offer on prem. Curious what you'd be willing to pay for this, as it's exclusively an enterprise feature. My guess is an absolute minimum of $50k/year contract value, or 250-350 users at an enterprise per-seat price (just guessing). Aside from going fully on prem, the idea of strictly dedicated storage is interesting -- like "bring your own S3 bucket" simplicity. I don'…

> Even pretty established players like Asana don't offer on prem.

Sounds like an opportunity ;)

Starting or rearchitecting a project gives you the rare chance to make decisions that your competitors never even had available to them. You can leverage new tech to move faster, and you can learn from their mistakes to avoid their most costly traps.

“Bring your own S3 bucket” actually sounds pretty awesome and I wish more companies would do this. Everybody wants to be a middleman controlling the transaction, but they’re missing a whole class of customers by not offering self-directed storage options.

This is a great example of a decision Notion could make now, that Asana would have a hard time adapting to. As long as they’re rearchitecting, they should keep an eye out for opportunities like that.

As for how much I’d pay – if I’m the only party with access to my raw data, and I can run the software locally even if Notion goes out of business – for a team of 5-10, I would pay $50-75 per user per month.

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Big fan of notion. Not a fan of the data lock-in or haphazard security. For tools like this, SaaS will almost always beat open source just by virtue of elbow grease and a product direction. So I’m willing to forego the open source alternatives. But I really wish Notion gave me more options for how to host my data. AFAICT they offer no “dedicated storage” or “on premise” plan, even if you want to pay for it. In fact I…

Even pretty established players like Asana don't offer on prem. Curious what you'd be willing to pay for this, as it's exclusively an enterprise feature. My guess is an absolute minimum of $50k/year contract value, or 250-350 users at an enterprise per-seat price (just guessing). Aside from going fully on prem, the idea of strictly dedicated storage is interesting -- like "bring your own S3 bucket" simplicity. I don'…

You're right about Asana -- but it's worth noting that RoamResearch ($100/yr) offers private, offline dbs, and Roam's OSS "vassal" app (ie, clone) AthensResearch is self-hosted and free-as-in-beer.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even pretty established players like Asana don't offer on prem. Curious what you'd be willing to pay for this, as it's exclusively an enterprise feature. My guess is an absolute minimum of $50k/year contract value, or 250-350 users at an enterprise per-seat price (just guessing). Aside from going fully on prem, the idea of strictly dedicated storage is interesting -- like "bring your own S3 bucket" simplicity. I don'…

> Even pretty established players like Asana don't offer on prem. Sounds like an opportunity ;) Starting or rearchitecting a project gives you the rare chance to make decisions that your competitors never even had available to them. You can leverage new tech to move faster, and you can learn from their mistakes to avoid their most costly traps. “Bring your own S3 bucket” actually sounds pretty awesome and I wish more…

You might want to take a look at AthensResearch (free, self-hosted RoamResearch clone).
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