Please someone help me get Notion. It's slow, it's missing big features like offline mode and localization. What is the attraction to this app? I've tired it 3 times now and I just don't get it.
Notion Acquires Automate.io
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> It’s fast and responsive What parts of notion are you claiming are fast and responsive? In my experience using the web app is very slow, and search is monstrously slow. We still use it but slowness is our chief complaint for the platform.
If all you know is JIRA then Notion feels like a breath of fresh air. Like it's not fast, but I never really expected blinding speed since Notion pages are so dynamic. But it's also not JIRA's click on something then wait a few seconds for the UI to catch up on a many thousand dollar laptop.
> wait a few seconds for the UI to catch up
When loading it absolutely takes 4-6 seconds to complete rendering.
If you’re talking about intra-page actions like adding a complex ui element after load you’re right it is better then Jira in that regard.
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#23Please someone help me get Notion. It's slow, it's missing big features like offline mode and localization. What is the attraction to this app? I've tired it 3 times now and I just don't get it.
For me, it's simply better than Confluence. I much prefer creating my documentation in Notion.
Also, it's just generally a good note taking app IMO.
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#24Please someone help me get Notion. It's slow, it's missing big features like offline mode and localization. What is the attraction to this app? I've tired it 3 times now and I just don't get it.
Marketing. However, there is value in it but you’re mainly seeing the power of marketing at play here.
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It’s fast and responsive What parts of notion are you claiming are fast and responsive? In my experience using the web app is very slow, and search is monstrously slow. We still use it but slowness is our chief complaint for the platform.
If all you know is JIRA then Notion feels like a breath of fresh air. Like it's not fast, but I never really expected blinding speed since Notion pages are so dynamic. But it's also not JIRA's click on something then wait a few seconds for the UI to catch up on a many thousand dollar laptop.
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#26Seems like overkill to get the integrations into a single product. Surely, buy 25% shares and seat on the board. Make a contract that Notion integrations are advertised first and everything else is encouraged to work with it. That way automate still has a larger target market and provides a channel into Notion sales. This kills automate's growth. I wonder what the price tag was.
Buying only 25% sounds good from Notion’s perspective but is absolutely the worst possible deal for Automate’s shareholders. The value of the remaining 75% Automate shares would tank after that deal because Notion basically owns you with their 25% shares, board seat and preferred contract.
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#27Please someone help me get Notion. It's slow, it's missing big features like offline mode and localization. What is the attraction to this app? I've tired it 3 times now and I just don't get it.
I was in the same boat, until I started watching YouTube stars demonstrate how to use it as
- a Kanban Board (abandoned Trello)
- a Confluence replacement
Now I love it for task- and project management.
I use it in combo with Roam Research. Roam for writing, Notion for task- and project management.
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#28I must have read that title five times and it wasn't until I looked at the comments that I realized it wasn't Norton (Antivirus).
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#29Please someone help me get Notion. It's slow, it's missing big features like offline mode and localization. What is the attraction to this app? I've tired it 3 times now and I just don't get it.
For me, it's the mix of markdown documents and Airtable-like databases. It's much more productive than the various Excel-based "trackers" and Word documents in multiple folders that my team uses at work. Being able to automatically link relevant procedures and documents to specific work items, keep track of the status of those items, and having an all encompassing, interlinked "homepage" of all the relevant information related to my job keeps my cognitive load minimal.
I've used Obsidian and Dendron for a lot of this previously, but the real killer feature of Notion, IMO, is the databases. I'd kill for a local/offline-first alternative that also has mobile support, but I have yet to find anything as easy (other than Craft, but it's Apple only and the web version is still in beta).
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#30Please someone help me get Notion. It's slow, it's missing big features like offline mode and localization. What is the attraction to this app? I've tired it 3 times now and I just don't get it.
Marketing. However, there is value in it but you’re mainly seeing the power of marketing at play here.
I'm sure they have good marketing but that's far away from why I use it. At this point my whole life is in Notion. It's by far my endgame note taking app. The value is that it's so dynamic and infinitely nested and can absorb any messy unstructured thoughts or notes I have without having to stop and think about where it should go.
Like say I make myself a todo list using a List database. Need to set a reminder for myself about some part of it? Just add it in the list item with @. Have some documents or code output that you want to remember? Just throw it in there! Crap, have a billion tabs open from researching and have to stop for the day? Just create a list inside the page and throw all the links in there. Need to take notes on some of those links because the SO answer wasn't quite right, just add it right that list item. All the context for the card is right there in the card. It's a project management board that actually bings value to me as a dev. It's not the thing I have to use to track time, it's a thing I want to use because it's where I can store all my thoughts instead of having to have two systems and keep them in sync which is always a chore.