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Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#221

There is an small bug that I found when trying to signup. The signup form doesn't allow signing up with .co domains [1]. [1] https://i.imgur.com/NDcd6X1.png

I've reported your issue to Notion.

In the past, they've been quite responsive about bugs (and even feature requests).

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#223

There is something about Notion that makes it feel very well-made and coherent. It’s one of the few apps I use with this inherent feeling of quality (off the top of my head Sublime Text/Merge, Beyond Compare, Things fall into this category of intangible greatness). Every interaction is delightful, and the app scales really well from basic note-taking to decently complex databases with grouping, filters, relations, te…

Say what you will about Electron apps that use excessive resources and lack native touches, but they are definitely not “as close to painting the back of the fence as it gets.”

That Jobs-ism was specifically about caring about the internals of a product that nobody looks at, but you know are there.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#224

This isn't self-hosted? I'm interested in a self-hosted solution that uses local markdown files and directories to manage content.

what about a self-hosted gitlab instance? I can see it would fall short on a few elements but it has a great API that can be integrated with.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like they use FullStory, so employees can probably see everything you're doing. I'd be surprised if they were recording without ever watching the recordings. (FullStory records what you do in your browser. It records all DOM elements, so all your data is being recorded and sent to a 3rd party.)

You can opt out of Fullstory tracking here > https://www.fullstory.com/optout/

These types of "services" should be opt-in, not opt-out.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#226

I used Notion for a significant period but ended up switching to Nuclino [1] - which is identical in many respects, but without the various add-ons that are unnecessary if you're working with text/images. I've found it to be more responsive, and to my tastes, it has a better UI. I'm not a big fan of the emoji/blank file image that is necessary with every Notion entry. [1] - https://www.nuclino.com/

I love Nuclino too. Their editor uses the wonderful ProseMirror (https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/nuclino-a-lightweight-real...) by Marijn Haverbeke (https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/) of CodeMirror and Tern fame.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Hmm, I cannot seem to create an account without sharing my Google contacts; which I see no need to do and it's needless friction. I get into a loop of clicking checkbox "I don't want to share my Google contacts", then being rerouted back to login page and requested approval to share my contacts. Pricing wise, I wish these types of apps didn't have such a steep escalation as soon as I want to share. $4 for individual,…

> wanting to share this with my wife is four times as expensive as just using it myself, with limited to no appreciable improvement. I would hardly say "no appreciable improvement". IMHO it's appropriate to price products based on the value derived, not the effort to implement each incremental "feature". And the ability to share is the most human feature. We are social creatures. To share and collaborate and be relat…

Are there examples of co-operative apps or pricing? I'm interested in that as well, but don't know of any!

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#228
Just in case someone might need it: I reverse engineered their API and wrote (an unofficial) client for accessing the data: https://github.com/kjk/notionapi

It's for Go but one could easily port it to any other language. It's just HTTP requests and some light processing of JSON responses.

I use it so that I can have my blog content in Notion. In a daily cron job I download the data from Notion, convert it to HTML and publish on Netlify as a static website. This script is open source: https://github.com/kjk/blog

Basically I use Notion as CMS.

I described my reverse-engineering process in https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/88aee8f43620471aa9dbcad2...

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

#230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can opt out of Fullstory tracking here > https://www.fullstory.com/optout/

Does that also opt you out of their apps too? Guessing all this does is set a cookie for that browser.

It sets the following:

{ "Domain": ".fullstory.com", "Name": "fs_optout", "Value": 1, "Path": "/", "Expires": null, "Store ID": "firefox-default", "First Party Domain": null, "Secure": false, "Session": true, "Http Only": false, "Host Only": false }

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