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Re: Paul Graham Essay Notes

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Is it only me or is Notion's UI very confusing? Entries of the table look like links, but when I click they just pop out in a little text field non-editable with a shadow and don't seem to be clickable. I feel quite stupid to be honest...

Yes. This exactly god help you if you cannot hover.

That's my main beef will all these web-based doc/database tools like Notion, Coda, Airtable, etc—despite their neat features, there is absolutely no focus on accessibility with any of them. They're all div soup. I love text documents because they're accessible and easy to produce, but these tools have failed to follow the spirit of the web (not to mention web standards).

Re: Paul Graham Essay Notes

#12
post #6

Is it only me or is Notion's UI very confusing? Entries of the table look like links, but when I click they just pop out in a little text field non-editable with a shadow and don't seem to be clickable. I feel quite stupid to be honest...

No, I'm awesomely clever and did the exact same thing...

Re: Paul Graham Essay Notes

#13
post #6

Is it only me or is Notion's UI very confusing? Entries of the table look like links, but when I click they just pop out in a little text field non-editable with a shadow and don't seem to be clickable. I feel quite stupid to be honest...

The designer broke the commonly accepted and specified UX of links. The user is not stupid, the design is.

Re: Paul Graham Essay Notes

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. This exactly god help you if you cannot hover.

That's my main beef will all these web-based doc/database tools like Notion, Coda, Airtable, etc—despite their neat features, there is absolutely no focus on accessibility with any of them. They're all div soup. I love text documents because they're accessible and easy to produce, but these tools have failed to follow the spirit of the web (not to mention web standards).

you might like Foam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsCQ3pApTs

https://github.com/foambubble/foam

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