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Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by waboremo »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #344
epolanski wrote: post #326

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the latter of which is not what Notion is good for at all why?

Especially since you can share notion webs publically per page. Perfect for latest documentation, job postings, etc.

Depends what kind of documentation. General team docs? Yeah great those barely change. Same with job postings, outside of an "active" toggle, there's not much that changes for them. Everything else? You waste too much time dealing with notion lag. A lot of the integrations also suck and are far too limited in what they do.

One final note on docs, one of the best moves in recent years is expressing difficult concepts through interactive content. Notion cannot handle this at all. Static or nothing on notion!

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by antod »

iamthirsty wrote: post #285
tomrod wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rare is it that I am envied. Obsidian I've enjoyed, but find it difficult to become fluent with it.

It is almost unbelievable to me that anyone who's been able to become aware of & use a niche app like Obsidian has never come across Notion. Obsidian is definitely a power-user tool, which one would usually use after considering the other options, with Notion being almost as default as a choice as Evernote once was. Additionally, a lot of apps now are even using it as their support bases. It almost feels unavoidable…

There's two of us! Although Obsidian only made it to awareness for me - I haven't used it. But I hadn't heard of Notion.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by ZhadruOmjar »

015a wrote: post #317
Jackevansevo wrote: post #30

The 23 minute video linked on the "ultimate notion setup for 2023" sounds like a great trap to fall into to not actually get anything done. I get the impression some people spend more time configuring these productivity tools instead of actually being productive. Although I admit I've been guilty the same thing, perfecting my .vimrc instead of actually working on projects. Messing around with static site blog generat…

I'm going to be a little mean here, but I think it needs to be said: "How to be productive in Notion" videos and template sales sites and such are always made by boringly unsuccessful people. I would love to see a broader intensive study on this topic, but just from my observations: its youtube and tik tok creators with a few thousand viewers, people who may actually be rather busy but don't drive much success from w…

I've recently started using Notion in a similar way that your engineer uses Markdown files. Apple Notes is great and I have moved away from paper notes simply because there is no search and it can be hard to flip back through books to find what was said in a meeting six weeks ago. My favourite thing about paper notes is that I engage more with the meeting since I have something to do with my hands.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by csomar »

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…

You are not missing anything. It's stupid, but hey, some people are paying for that stuff and and some people are making money out of it. Who are we to judge.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by meken »

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’ve been meaning to try trello, notion is just so slow

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by themadturk »

thiago_fm wrote: post #106
lemiffe wrote: post #100

Absolutely love Notion for the aspects mentioned in the article; I love how I can cluster everything together (work, life, etc.) From short term planning (templates for my week which I copy every Sunday to start a fresh week - these templates are a 7 day todo list (in columns) with a link to my main calendar, project 'kanban' boards, and a linked "general todo" list for things that don't fit in the week and keep drag…

Basically from what you've written, you are still addicted to scheduling everything, but now you do it in notion. If you need to constantly drag items you didn't complete to the next day, it means you are either a professional procrastinator, which TODO lists just make it worse, or you are over committing and need to either find a way to delegate, or just don't do it. I bet that if you maintain literally 1 file with…

Not the parent, but I bridle at the notion (see what I did there?) that a calendar should only be for work. Some of us have busy lives to manage. I wish I could keep work and personal calendars all in one place, but my employer and my own desire for privacy prohibit it.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by bnjms »

bbkane wrote: post #225
bnjms wrote: post #207

I need a replacement for MS OneNote for reasons including it feels too rigid. And I know people here have tested most things. The only important feature I need is ability to paste screenshots into it. Then an easy way to mark text for monospaced fonts for text copied from a terminal and back for notes. A quick overview of all of these makes it look like only OneNote does that well and the rest are text only.

This was almost exactly my requirements - https://www.bbkane.com/blog/how-i-take-notes/ I landed on https://typora.io/ and I've been pretty happy ever since

Two excellent options I’ve never seen mentioned. But you are right that your requirements match mine exactly. Also for remote troubleshoot where I do not have access to the remote clipboard and need to capture information so I can quickly move on.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by barbariangrunge »

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…

Kanbanflow > trello. Same thing, just nicer interface imho

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by barbariangrunge »

iamthirsty wrote: post #285
tomrod wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rare is it that I am envied. Obsidian I've enjoyed, but find it difficult to become fluent with it.

It is almost unbelievable to me that anyone who's been able to become aware of & use a niche app like Obsidian has never come across Notion. Obsidian is definitely a power-user tool, which one would usually use after considering the other options, with Notion being almost as default as a choice as Evernote once was. Additionally, a lot of apps now are even using it as their support bases. It almost feels unavoidable…

Could you explain obsidian to me? It just looks like a markdown editor with hyperlinks to me
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