I love the idea of notion but could never get myself to use it due to their privacy policy.
Is it any different from all closed sourced services?
How I use Notion to manage everything
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#32I just cannot imagine investing this amount of effort into managing my life's details. I feel an energy drain just reading it. But, maybe much younger people think this is how to live a good life. More simply: I'm pretty sick of productivity porn, and the empty promises it makes.
I feel exactly the same. How the hell people have time foe all this?
It’s procrastinating in a fashionable way to make yourself feel like you’re productive.
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#33I just cannot imagine investing this amount of effort into managing my life's details. I feel an energy drain just reading it. But, maybe much younger people think this is how to live a good life. More simply: I'm pretty sick of productivity porn, and the empty promises it makes.
Yes, I'd like to see how this tool would function under the weight of three kids, an aging brain, and a few life-crises.
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#34Even just typing text on the notion mac app feels wrong.
They dont have the app anymore do they? Its just electron.
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#35I'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.
Notion has an entire ecosystem of paid templates, it's a side hustle for many.
Unfortunately this has kept off of Notion as trying to look up videos of how it works usually leads to a wall of "Notion-fluencer" thumbnails, all of whom look no older than first-year university student.
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#36I just cannot imagine investing this amount of effort into managing my life's details. I feel an energy drain just reading it. But, maybe much younger people think this is how to live a good life. More simply: I'm pretty sick of productivity porn, and the empty promises it makes.
Often times these templates are made by students, who aren't in the workforce but want the trappings of professionalism. For some that is exactly the kind of productivity porn you mention.
It's addictive, I can't lie. I would love to have a perfectly designed, neat workflow that captures all my tasks and quantifies my productivity with precision. The reality of work is that I already have to apply these principles to documenting things at my job. The last thing I want to do is to also need to maintain a perfectly manicured to-do list for myself.
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#37I'm going to leave the obligatory "Org-mode better" comment that inevitably pops up on these posts. I used to enjoy Notion. But it's closed-source, tiered and feature-limited, needs internet, and runs like a sloth.
If what you need is a collaborative environment, Notion obviously wins. If you need a first-class mobile app, Notion wins. If you don't check either of those boxes, Org-mode is awesome. Genuinely one of the coolest "pieces of software" (I'm growing to hate that phrase) that I've ever used.
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#39I 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.
I just started using Logseq and I am blown away with how amazing it is.
Re: How I use Notion to manage everything
#40I 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.
They are also far from notion in how powerful they are.