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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 ilrwbwrkhv »

mandmandam wrote: post #352
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's $49 annually. If you use it for everything, it is totally worth it.

It's little triangles that fold your list. I know how handy it is. But I think about the simplicity of it, and it offends me to pay so much for the ability to do something which I feel ought to be a standard thing. $49 is nothing to most here. It's doable for me. But there are countries - many - where that's a month's median wage. $49 for a blockbuster game - sure. It's optional, there were hundreds of thousands of h…

I get what you are saying, but they have a team too and are working on the software fulltime.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

nmca wrote: post #154
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #76

Workflowy is what I have been using for almost a decade. I think the reason it works so well is because it is simple. Anti features are so powerful in an app like this otherwise you can spend all your time tweaking and coming up with the perfect system.

Also my go-to. Very useful for travel, projects etc. Recursive lists fit my brain well & the search is good enough!

It also feels like a niche, esoteric app nowadays, so when the hordes go to notion, we can stay over here.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Andaith wrote: post #353
VladimirGolovin wrote: post #328

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Maybe try Obsidian? It works completely offline, it's free, and its stores your data as a folder of markdown files. It should cover your personal wiki / Zettelkasten needs, plus, if you're willing to spend some time on learning the Tasks plugin, you can implement a pretty decent GTD-like system on it.

Also, if you're in the Apple ecosystem, you can store your obsidian vault in iCloud and sync between laptop & mobile. The obsidian mobile app is surprisingly good too.

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Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by darkteflon »

bayindirh wrote: post #50
darkteflon wrote: post #43

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Pagico looks interesting, would you mind saying a few more words on what you like about it?

Of course. First of all, Pagico is really cross platform. It has clients for macOS, Linux and Windows, plus iOS (I use it on macOS, iOS and Linux). It allows me to group the tasks either in a free floating Inbox, or in their respective projects. I can combine all these projects' tasks in a single view, or see them in their independent contexts. This allows me to see my whole workload (private + professional) and plan…

Thank you! Really appreciate that. I’m looking into Pagico now and reckon I will trial it this week. Hadn’t heard of it before.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

pbueckle wrote: post #290

I've been using Notion at my new workplace and was excited at first, but having used it now for many months I came to hate it. They constantly announce new features but are completely neglecting the basics: - Copy and paste is completely broken. Good luck trying to paste a table. - The drag & drop feature is equally annoying, it just never works and doesn't select the things you intend to select or drop them in the p…

100% this. I am starting to hate Notion, and I hate myself for the fact that I trusted this company to "do well" to its users. They're not.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by omega3 »

Notion is far from ideal but I use it for note taking and knowledge storing. I want clean UI, set of functionalities included out of the box, I don't want to be editing in Markdown, I like how the blocks are modular so that they can be rearranged on the screen, I like Notion automation(buttons) and databases. As long as you're not trying to "plan your whole life" in Notion it's a good product.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by sails »

Late to the party but I'm somewhat sure that there are no true "power users" of notion (despite what the article says), because of the lack of a feature to see your upcoming reminders. This is such a basic Todo feature.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/12g97j1/how_to_see_...

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by npteljes »

ralfd wrote: post #195

… His secret is the workspace app Notion… … the reason Notion has such a devoted fan base is its flexibility… … Notion’s most devoted fans say they’re unlikely to jump ship to any other promising platforms anytime soon… Is Notion so good, or is this product placement PR? See: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

The submarine article I came across earlier, but it's so good, so on point, that I had to read it again.

"If you really want to be a critical reader, it turns out you have to step back one step further, and ask not just whether the author is telling the truth, but why he's writing about this subject at all."

Fantastic way to understand a lot more of the world. Not just critical thinking, I have been making good progress in my interpersonal relationships too.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by npteljes »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #24

This just seems like so much work. The obsessive tracking of ever little thing. Does anyone really use this data in any meaningful way other that just admire its detail? What happens if you miss period, does this cause anxiety?

To never do it, or to do it all the time, are neither good. The best is if you can do trials of things like this. To be able to monitor something closely, but then draw conclusions and let it go.

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by npteljes »

jrmg wrote: post #124

These systems always strike me as a failure of the file system and desktop metaphor. _The computer_ was intended to be the system you stored documents in, with paths to link between them, and any number of applications to do any number of things with them. Extended attributes are available for metadata. There’s not really any reason why things like Dropbox and iCloud couldn’t extend this to the Internet. But it someh…

>a failure of the file system and desktop metaphor.

I agree. I think this is because the file system is very rigid in terms of what you can do with it, especially regarding extending it, and managing it from a higher perspective. It would be very nice to use labels/tags for files and folders. To have a nice index that can be easily viewed, sorted, filtered. The file systems are also very rigid. To create filesystems while computer is running, mounting them around, resizing etc on the fly, this is unthinkable to me with existing file systems, and I have used some.

The lacking of file systems are demonstrated I believe in file formats that are basically file systems themselves. Archive formats come first to mind, and that basically every game I have played grouped its assets into large data files.

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