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People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by idlephysicist »

sofixa wrote: post #228
idlephysicist wrote: post #187

Maybe I am the weird one but I use a diary / planner what ever you want to call it. I'll never get locked out of it, I don't have to pay a monthly fee. Personally I think that I have enough screen time as it is. Ok yeah the search feature is somewhat lacking but from the sounds of it most of these organise your life SaaS products have the same issue. Sure I could lose it but I'd argue that losing your access to Notio…

You don't have to use a SaaS, you can use a modern "note taking"++ tool like Obsidian (not affiliated, just a huge fan) or Logseq (FOSS). In both cases files are fully local, sync is optional (for Obsidian there's a paid service or you can just use Dropbox/GDrive/Git/etc.), and you get a ton of advanced features like complex search, smart references, etc. For instance I use Obsidian for meeting notes, and with the he…

Nice, glad to hear that you have a useful and productive workflow.

Yeah at work I use what ever tech what I'm told to use, but paper is still an important part of my thought process.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by creamyhorror »

eitland wrote: post #204
creamyhorror wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, good reasons to use Logseq. I picked Obsidian over Logseq because of the larger community, and because I thought the former's UI looked suitable for hierarchical notes in main categories, which is my usual approach. I go to the right folder and append to the end of the relevant note. I do like Logseq's more free-flowing, block-tagging, hypertext-journal approach, but thought I didn't really need the journal form…

I'm not aware of any extension that gives you a hierarchical sidebar on the left. The right side however has a built in "Contents" page - which tells you what it is for - only as far as I know one has to fill it out oneselves. That said, my goal was not to convert you or anyone. I am a NetBeans user myself so I know a bit or two about others telling me why I should switch to "clearly superior alternatives" and I don'…

Hah, appreciate it. Although I actually do like finding out about better alternatives and weigh the benefits of switching. It's good to know what people are happy about, even if it isn't quite for oneself.

Sounds like Obsidian fits me better than Logseq for now (for the inherent hierarchical organisation). Though one of these days I'll try running Logseq on the same files just for a different view and to try out journalling.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by IceWreck »

I am quite obsessed with keeping a personal wiki, like some of these people described in the article. However, I simply cannot imagine doing that in an application that isn't controlled by me or doesn't work completely offline. I dont want my life to be organized around an application that charges a subscription and my workflow is at the whim of a corporation.

I went from Zim to Dokuwiki to Bookstack (where I've been for the past 3 years). The former is an offline app and the latter two are self hosted. All three are FOSS.

Anyways, I did try Notion once, it was super slow (feels sluggish) and the search was bad.

Edit: after reading some other comments, one thing I really appreciate about Bookstack is that its opinionated and batteries included -> no falling into the "waste all your time customizing and perfecting your workflow" trap.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by qot »

alhirzel wrote: post #200

I use ClickUp[1] in similar ways. I have three spaces: family, personal development, professional development. All of the side projects I have are under personal development, various work commitments (including e.g. rental house management) under professional, and family varies from "scoop the litter box Mon/Wed/Sat" all the way to 10 year goals. I have not (and may not) reach steady-state on the way it's organized,…

I don't recommend ClickUp because of the amount of marketing emails / spam they send you. Every minor version update gets an email in your inbox.

Their "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the emails also doesn't work which is unacceptable.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by waboremo »

tomrod wrote: post #226
ChildOfChaos wrote: post #224

I don't get the notion hype, I just don't like it. Even worse, is you go on product hunt and there are nonstop 'product' launches which are just notion templates named 'operating systems' being sold at crazy prices for what they are. I don't get what I am missing. I personally love and use Trello, because it's basically just a bunch of lists that I can drag and drop too, i have a boards named 'spark board, where i ke…

This article reads like an ad. Perhaps I live under a tech rock, but I have not heard of notion before today. And I don't like that it is being shilled.

I envy the person who has been able to avoid Notion advertising in the past ~5 years.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by IceWreck »

Karunamon wrote: post #40
quaintdev wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They probably don't care or think they have nothing to hide or probably never stumbled across numerous self hosted alternatives https://selfhosting.quest/search?q=wiki

A generic wiki is not an alternative to Notion. And believe me, I have looked.

Might not be for you but it is for me and countless others.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by gms7777 »

ChildOfChaos wrote: post #224

I don't get the notion hype, I just don't like it. Even worse, is you go on product hunt and there are nonstop 'product' launches which are just notion templates named 'operating systems' being sold at crazy prices for what they are. I don't get what I am missing. I personally love and use Trello, because it's basically just a bunch of lists that I can drag and drop too, i have a boards named 'spark board, where i ke…

I use Notion as a personal work notebook. I like it for its lack of rigidity and fixed structure. I've always struggled with tools like Trello because they have a specific model that you need to fit your usage into. Then again, I'm not a Notion power user, nor do I make heavy use of templates outside of a few I've designed myself, so I'm definitely not one of the "hype"rs

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by jitl »

ChildOfChaos wrote: post #224

I don't get the notion hype, I just don't like it. Even worse, is you go on product hunt and there are nonstop 'product' launches which are just notion templates named 'operating systems' being sold at crazy prices for what they are. I don't get what I am missing. I personally love and use Trello, because it's basically just a bunch of lists that I can drag and drop too, i have a boards named 'spark board, where i ke…

(I work for Notion)

Notion is also "basically just a bunch of lists", plus titles. Pages in Notion are a title, and a list of blocks. Text blocks are a title (the text of the block) and a list, it's indented children.

We also have boards like Trello, and you can drag and drop list items between boards, pages, paragraphs, everywhere. Maybe you could see it as everything you like about Trello, but applied to more modalities of content.

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