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Post by leoncvlt »

Pmop wrote: post #217
dive wrote: post #208

I tried the Notion twice. It looks good, works fine and has a reasonable price. But. You cannot write notes in this application. Literally. You can build tables, resize images, align lists in different shapes, have a dashboard for all thousand cases you have with favourites photos as headers, filter views with a million conditions, manage to-dos and project with kanban, ..., but you cannot write simple notes. The int…

What do you recommend (besides org mode, I don't use Emacs). I need something to write down ideas, store concepts I've learned, and at the same time has a Kanban board so I can track/manage progress of my side projects. Preferably, something that works offline. Preferably something open-source so I can rewire the thing to my needs.

I use https://dynalist.io/ and enjoys its ease of us a lot - it is admittedly a glorified version of https://workflowy.com/, but while Workflowy invented the bullet-list web app formula, I find that it has stagnated in ideas for a while and I do like the little extra features Dynalist has.

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Post by [deleted] »

madballster wrote: post #164
intopieces wrote: post #69

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Are there any open source Notion alternatives? This is the main benefit of open source software, in my mind: no one can "take" it from you because it doesn't belong to "them" in the same way that a product does.

emacs + orgmode

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Post by PascLeRasc »

Holy shit. This might be the most beautiful piece of software I've ever used. The tutorial is perfect, the onboarding was super easy, and the Mac app is really responsive. And it's not owned by a huge corporation! I'm in love.

Does anyone have any deep-dive recommendations on how to get the most out of Notion?

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Post by Benmcdonald__ »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #78
chc4 wrote: post #35

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Your data being inaccessible without a private key or password is the entire point.

People rightfully get skittish when there's no "forgot password" mechanism to get their account and data back. I certainly agree that that's the point, but such a system needs some potential usability affordances. For instance, a key stored in the browser rather than a password the user has to remember, and ideally a key synced between multiple devices controlled by the user so that the loss or failure of one device…

How do you even sync the key between multiple devices? If you send the private key to the server that undoes any protection from the encryption

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Post by type0 »

haolez wrote: post #151

I'm looking for something similar to Notion for my company's internal documentation (including operations), but it needs to be internationalized (and Notion isn't). I've found out about Joplin[1] and thought it was the answer, but it seems that I cannot easily share the notes with my team in a collaborative manner. A pity! The quest continues. [1] https://joplinapp.org/

For small collaborative work CodiMD is great

https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd

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Post by nthnclrk »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #223

Holy shit. This might be the most beautiful piece of software I've ever used. The tutorial is perfect, the onboarding was super easy, and the Mac app is really responsive. And it's not owned by a huge corporation! I'm in love. Does anyone have any deep-dive recommendations on how to get the most out of Notion?

Check out Marie Poulin's work on YouTube. She also has a 'Notion Mastery' offering: https://mariepoulin.com/notion-mastery/

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Post by rimjongun »

MikeKusold wrote: post #161
lilyball wrote: post #147

Notion is great. My one complaint is the fact that there's no "family plan". I currently have a free workspace that I share with my spouse, but we're about to hit the 1000 block limit. Notion CS's recommendation was for me to use a personal plan and invite them to each page we want to share, or to create a top-level page that all of the shared pages are nested under and invite them to the top-level page alone, but th…

This is my exact experience. I wanted to share a page I put together for our garden, so we could both edit it. Notion wanted 16/mo for us. While that pricing makes sense for a company, it doesn't make sense for a household.

They just changed this, pretty great.

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Post by [deleted] »

madballster wrote: post #164
intopieces wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any open source Notion alternatives? This is the main benefit of open source software, in my mind: no one can "take" it from you because it doesn't belong to "them" in the same way that a product does.

emacs + orgmode

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Post by jay_kyburz »

tommoor wrote: post #66
brainzap wrote: post #65

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I miss Trello: add task, edit, save.

Trello… still exists?

It will soon be dead as Atlassian have started to kill it. For example, it now quite often now does browser page refresh when I open a card to add a comment. WTF ATLASSIAN!

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Post by buzzerbetrayed »

arkitaip wrote: post #100
tommoor wrote: post #66

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Trello… still exists?

Only on HN can people question the existence of an app which has 50M users. Trello might not be this month's flavor but I'll be damned if it's not one of the most useful planning tools out there.

> Only on HN can people question the existence of an app which has 50M users

1. GP isn't doing this. You misunderstood. 2. Even if they were(they weren't), how would this be something exclusive to HN?

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