Notion's mid-life crisis • Hacker News Board

Re: Notion's mid-life crisis

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Post by LizPoggi » Tue, Oct 08, 2024, 12:58 AM UTC

base698 wrote: post #25

diego_sandoval wrote: post #21

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I started as an Obsidian user, and generally I like the fact that it's just Markdown, but markdown tables really suck, to the point that I simply ended up avoiding them at all costs, and I used OnlyOffice's Excel equivalent in parallel to Obsidian for a while. But Notion has good tables by default, so I can have both good tables (and tableviews) and normal text files in the same app. I could have tried Obsidian plugi…

I just migrated everything out of Notion into Ibsidian. Notion was unusable after more than a few hundred items in a DB. I migrated to using dataview and lists in Obsidian and haven't had a problem since. And it works offline. I use it for my workout logbook and cooking/recipe log with hundreds of entries.

Agreed. Not useful for large dataset. The magic is in connecting databases - relating project management to notes etc. I've resorted to duplicating each database and archiving anything that is worth keeping. That way databases I use operationally retain speed.

Re: Notion's mid-life crisis

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Post by sisyphus_coding » Wed, Oct 09, 2024, 5:55 PM UTC

canadiantim wrote: post #138

PaulHoule wrote: post #14

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I imported a friend of mine's Notion into Fraxinus, some software I wrote that is a bookmark manager and a webcrawler and an image sorter and a search engine and annotation system and a visualization tool and is likely to get merged with my YOShInOn RSS reader and model trainer (might eat all my side projects that aren't about images and VR.) It's a tool for understanding, organizing and harvesting a collection of do…

Is there a way to try your Fraxinus system?

Me too please :^)

Re: Notion's mid-life crisis

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Post by llamaLord » Sat, Oct 12, 2024, 4:07 AM UTC

dartos wrote: post #150

llamaLord wrote: post #76

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Yeah but saying Jira is like Notion makes fundamentally no sense when Confluence is sitting like... Right there...

Yeah… that’s Atlassian for you. Why sell just Jira when you can sell jira, confluence, bitbucket, opsgenie, and atlas as part of the Atlassian cloud platform. This is the company that (already having owned jira) bought trello and did nothing with it for 5 years.

Hey!!! We let you put a picture of your cat as the background for your board...