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> This one is a real shame. I still can't believe it. If you select any text block, you can't navigate using Page Up and Page Down keys. So? That's probably used by less than 5% of people anyway. Seeing regular users most would just use the mouse...
SPA apps made by English speaker tend to have broken input field (Even twitter's tweet field) but Notion isn't even though it has complex features.
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I work in improving performance at a big tech company. It can be like dragging feet to get executives, managers and developers to care about improving performance because incentives are misaligned and it's frankly a chore compared to the million other things you have to be doing. It's also significantly harder to show the business metric improvement that comes from performance improvements than it does from simple A/…
Fair enough; thanks for taking the time to chat about this. I'm not sure I agree, but I appreciate your perspective and experience. For all that you've said, I still strongly suspect that a standalone rust / swift compiler designed for speed above all else could achieve many times the performance of the current LLVM based designs. The resulting binaries might need to lean heavily on dynamic dispatch over monomorphiza…
(Disclaimer: I work on Notion) To me, the most interesting feedback here is that seamless-editable-by-default is a negative for this user, and as a work-around, this organization locks/unlocks every page. This is surprising to me because I find content locks and editing friction very annoying. For example I used Quip for many years, which locks any block currently being edited by someone else, which can be quite frus…
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This is good feedback! Thank you.
Do you really need to "lock" it as in OP? When you share you get the option to choose whether the person being shared can edit, comment or duplicate. If you disallow sharee editing, you can still edit your document.
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Notion is a not a good tool to create a knowledge base, the same way Google drive is a not a good tool to create a knowledge base. If you think a bit more, notion is more or less a Google drive with smileys. Which is not a critic.
What have you found is a good tool to create a knowledge base, at a small to medium sized company?
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People value what they are used to. I write code in an editor every day, and I use my editor somewhat deeply, using plenty of shortcuts to manipulate text quickly. When editing text in Notion it feels unproductive because I'm used to a code editor. Someone with a different background may have no problem with the text editing, because they're not used to anything substantially different, but may have an issue with ano…
Totally fair, but I wouldn’t expect Notion to work exactly like a code editor. What I do like is they stick to the universal language of “working apps”. So slash commands, markdown support, code snippets, dark mode, keyboard shortcuts, rich embeds, etc. Those are the bare minimum for me, but I don’t think any of their competitors actually have all of these features which is one of the reasons Notion is a good fit for…
(Disclaimer: I work on Notion) To me, the most interesting feedback here is that seamless-editable-by-default is a negative for this user, and as a work-around, this organization locks/unlocks every page. This is surprising to me because I find content locks and editing friction very annoying. For example I used Quip for many years, which locks any block currently being edited by someone else, which can be quite frus…
That's absolutely the default behaviour for Word when opening a Doc sent from somebody else ("enable editing"), and it does make sense like this.
> This one is a real shame. I still can't believe it. If you select any text block, you can't navigate using Page Up and Page Down keys. So? That's probably used by less than 5% of people anyway. Seeing regular users most would just use the mouse...
(Disclaimer: I work on Notion) To me, the most interesting feedback here is that seamless-editable-by-default is a negative for this user, and as a work-around, this organization locks/unlocks every page. This is surprising to me because I find content locks and editing friction very annoying. For example I used Quip for many years, which locks any block currently being edited by someone else, which can be quite frus…