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Re: How I use Notion to manage everything

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Post by virgil_disgr4ce »

Semaphor wrote: post #2

I guess I might as well ask here. I tried notion 1-2 years [0] ago, and the features were great. I'd even have considered paying for it. But the performance was atrocious. It made Gmail seem fast. Have things Improved on that front? [0] I've always been bad at remembering how much time passed, but COVID really didn't help … So those numbers might be off. Edit: Thanks everyone, sounds like I'll at least give it anothe…

The performance is better than it was at that time. At that time performance was the #1 item for improvement on their roadmap.

I currently pay for Notion and I don't usually mind the performance. However, things like opening a new window and changing it to a new document with the "quick" search (command-p) is still almost unacceptably slow (it's an Electron app). The benefits for me do outweigh the costs though.

I've never seen native apps anywhere in their stated plans.

Re: How I use Notion to manage everything

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Post by d3nj4l »

virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #21
Semaphor wrote: post #2

I guess I might as well ask here. I tried notion 1-2 years [0] ago, and the features were great. I'd even have considered paying for it. But the performance was atrocious. It made Gmail seem fast. Have things Improved on that front? [0] I've always been bad at remembering how much time passed, but COVID really didn't help … So those numbers might be off. Edit: Thanks everyone, sounds like I'll at least give it anothe…

The performance is better than it was at that time. At that time performance was the #1 item for improvement on their roadmap. I currently pay for Notion and I don't usually mind the performance. However, things like opening a new window and changing it to a new document with the "quick" search (command-p) is still almost unacceptably slow (it's an Electron app). The benefits for me do outweigh the costs though. I've…

Native vs electron is probably not the thing that makes notion slow - AFAIK (last used notion ~2 years ago) everything has to go through the web, nothing is local, and the performance bottleneck is their server.

Re: How I use Notion to manage everything

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Post by MattDemers »

aluminussoma wrote: post #4

I'm glad it works for them, and I am a little skeptical whenever someone fawns over Notion (is it a paid placement? Is it someone who is trying sell templates?). To me, as someone who uses Notion for work, it is a dystopian vision, like using JIRA for my personal life's tasks. I very much prefer simple, low tech solutions to dealing with my life's problems.

Selling Notion templates is a complete cottage industry right now. So many people who were once selling video courses are just bundling up what they think mid-level managers will think looks sexy/smart from a note-taking/organizational system and selling it to them.

I know that's not anything new, but it's interesting to see how pervasive it is for one, specific service. Seems much easier to do than selling like... Asana automations? Zapier zaps?

Re: How I use Notion to manage everything

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Post by meken »

Semaphor wrote: post #2

I guess I might as well ask here. I tried notion 1-2 years [0] ago, and the features were great. I'd even have considered paying for it. But the performance was atrocious. It made Gmail seem fast. Have things Improved on that front? [0] I've always been bad at remembering how much time passed, but COVID really didn't help … So those numbers might be off. Edit: Thanks everyone, sounds like I'll at least give it anothe…

I use it daily for kanban and as a scratch pad and the performance is horrible. I’m on a 2015 mac

Re: How I use Notion to manage everything

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Post by dilap »

yandie wrote: post #25

Did they figure out the perf? I tried a while ago with three team members and I struggled after a few months. We ended up switching to confluence since at least the page loading wasn’t horrible.

yeah, it's reasonably snappy now (it used to be dog-slow).

Re: How I use Notion to manage everything

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Post by mrjh »

Its bugs are gradually being fixed (like the ability to just arrow-key straight out of a comment box and be deposited at the end of the document), but I still wince every time I have to use Notion… for work… every day.

Silly things like opening a Notion page in a background tab doesn’t actually load its page title, which requires a reload to fix.

And the page-nesting (instead of the traditional documents-in-folders approach of something like Google Drive) which makes restructuring files an absolute nightmare.

Maybe I’m just too old and stuck in my ways :)

Re: How I use Notion to manage everything

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Post by rchaud »

Semaphor wrote: post #2

I guess I might as well ask here. I tried notion 1-2 years [0] ago, and the features were great. I'd even have considered paying for it. But the performance was atrocious. It made Gmail seem fast. Have things Improved on that front? [0] I've always been bad at remembering how much time passed, but COVID really didn't help … So those numbers might be off. Edit: Thanks everyone, sounds like I'll at least give it anothe…

Notion is known for being a laggy web app.

It's partially why local-first, Markdown-based solutions like Obsidian and Logseq have exploded in popularity. Logseq is amazing and truly shows the power of backlinked text with a query interface. And the whole thing is FOSS, at least for now.

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