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Oh I have. Problem is Notion is most popular with the least technical people on our team. Migrating would be a hard sell.
This might be an interesting alternative: https://github.com/QingWei-Li/notea . Open source Notion clone that you can host locally.
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For those like myself ignorant about the company, Notion appears to be a project management tool with integrated wiki and docs support. With at least a claimed strong user focus.
Yup, that’s how they present it, though in reality it’s pretty clunky as a project management tool, and you’d almost always be better off using a purpose-built solution. Notion makes a decent tool for a personal/organizational wiki but it’s too slow/unresponsive/janky to use for many other purposes IMO. I’ve been using it for a couple years and I used to hold out hope that the performance could be optimized, but at t…
It has been great so far as a lightweight CRM, and a collaborative meeting note—taking tool with backlinks into CRM. Also documenting our internal processes.
Project management and ToDos haven’t stuck.
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…
(Cristina from Notion here) We shared a bit more in the past about how most of our user content was stored in a single database instance (see more here: https://www.notion.so/notion/Focus-on-performance-reliabilit... ). That is no longer true and we recently re-architected this database to scale horizontally. Totally understand that you want more options for how to host your data. Unfortunately, we don't have any pla…
We ultimately decided to not go enterprise since it offers little value over their existing plan and keep sensitive data out of Notion.
I hope Notion gets to a point where they can offer stronger guarantees to their customers. If they pull it off they’ll easily be mission critical software.
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…
I was a huge Notion fan. However, the long sync times were driving me nuts. I have since moved to inkdrop ( https://www.inkdrop.app/ ) because it's much better for my use case: * I can write Markdown notes. I've only wanted to write markdown notes. * The syncing is incredibly fast because it's using an existing technology purpose-built for syncing (CouchDB) * I can bring my own CouchDB and not have my data locked in…
Tables can have wiki notes, which can have tables. The recursive nature works very well for organizing your knowledgebase and having an entire org work together.
The things I hate about notion.
1) pressing / anywhere opens the menu. So annoying.
2) It's live collaboration on code is awful. We end up using codesandbox and then copy-pasting back.
3) It looses and new edits every now and then. Their sync needs work.
4) No way to proper version control documents and have a pull-request/suggestion like model for editing authoritative docs.
The other player in the same market is https://coda.io. They go quite a bit further than notion in terms of formulas and reference tables.
With both Coda and Notion, I feel I seldom have to use google docs.
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…
This is the reason I use Obsidian. https://obsidian.md/ All of your data is locally stored markdown text files with no lock in. All of the amazing benefits of linked note taking without the downsides.
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This might be an interesting alternative: https://github.com/QingWei-Li/notea . Open source Notion clone that you can host locally.
Looks awesome, but it relies on an S3 (or compatible) backend, which I personally find too much of a hassle.
Thank you for the reminder that I should try converting from Evernote to Notion again. Last time I tried (~2 months ago), the automatic importer died after importing ~10% of my Evernote content. Though, based on some of the comments in this thread, maybe I _shouldn't_ and should try Obsidian instead.
I thought it was a scam when I tried Notion 3 years ago.