I have moved from Notion to Obsidian.
Notion Acquires Automate.io
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Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#52Any ideas about possible deal size?
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#53I didn’t realize how much Stockholm Syndrome I had with Confluence until we switched to using Notion for our game design documents. It’s fast and responsive, which somehow in 2021 Atlassian still hasn’t figured out how to replicate with any of their products.
After fighting the move to Jira/Confluence for years, my company finally migrated away from Notion & Clubhouse. I couldn't be happier. Notion was great when we were <5 people, but it feels like a toy compared to Confluence.
What am I missing out on? I get Confluence has lots of enterprisey features for sysadmins but as an author it has always been a terrible experience, especially for code. There's so much friction to actually creating documentation that nobody actually does it or if they do never bother to update it.
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#54Is automate the same as IFTTT and Zapier? There are many such firms (I think). Is there a benefit to buying a particular one? I am sure they are hard to build, but could Notion just build one? Any insight into why this particular company?
I used IFTTT religiously a couple years back and I tried Automate.io for Notion and Google Sheets about a month ago, and I've got to say that Automate.io has a much more intuitive design for creating the automations.
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#55I have moved from Notion to Obsidian.
Recently did the same. I wish Obsidian had some of the nicer looking UI elements (such as editing a table without switching to markdown). I plan to stick with Obsidian for now, but am looking for something else since Obsidian is too limited(but the devs are great)
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#56You could always tell when a company switch their priority from B2C to B2B. Notion felt different when it was first released but in the last few years new competitors were able to replicate what they've done and make it better and faster (e.g. Craft) while notion focused their energy on teams/enterprise features.
If you're looking for a B2C productivity app, checkout Homechart: https://about.homechart.app.
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#57I really can't understand where Notion is going. They come from b2c, made b2c free pivoted to b2b smb and started saying more and more that they are a b2b enterprise company (even though their vision is not really compatible with that). And now they buy a company which is clearly in the b2b smb/b2c space. Confused
Ultimately there is very little money in B2C software sales compared to B2B. Every company that finds success in B2C will try to go B2B.
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#58Been using Notion for over 2 years now, and unfortunately I must say I am not going to be using them moving forward. You end up with a soup of documents each with their own structure, search is terrible, creating is easy sure - but finding the right content sucks. I'm not sure what the solution is, but after putting Notion through its paces I know this isn't it.
Checkout Saga [0], we've been building this for over a year exactly to fix the "I can't find anything" problem. Any feedback appreciated!
[0] https://saga.so
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#59You could always tell when a company switch their priority from B2C to B2B. Notion felt different when it was first released but in the last few years new competitors were able to replicate what they've done and make it better and faster (e.g. Craft) while notion focused their energy on teams/enterprise features.
Speaking from personal experience, people don't pay* for software, especially productivity software, while businesses do.
*yes, some people do pay of course, but the dichotomy between B2C and B2B revenue is vast
Re: Notion Acquires Automate.io
#60I have moved from Notion to Obsidian.
I did the same for my personal wiki; however, I don't think Obsidian is currently set up to handle the type of group wiki/task management that Notion is often used for.
I love Obsidian, and it's exactly what I was looking for. Notion has a slightly different usage for people, so it's not always an easy switch.