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

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

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Post by Weizilla »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #140

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,…

Where do you see it asking for contacts? It didn't ask me when I signed up and when I check my Google Security settings it only says it has access to:

* View your basic profile info (per Google: name, email address, and profile picture)

* View your email address

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

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Post by z0r »

kjksf wrote: post #198
z0r wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Friends don't let friends use web apps. Aside from privacy concerns, relying on someone else's server functioning and being forced to use whatever the newest "improved" version are all strikes against em. Who needs another login collected by someone else (so trustworthy) that you fill with credentials that will be stolen in a hack revealed a few years down the line? There's never any real consequences for service pro…

Notion doesn't store password. You can either log-in with Google account (which you most likely already have) or via 2fa mechanism where they send an expiring login link to your e-mail address. There are no password and therefore nothing to hack.

Having no password doesn't mean it can't be hacked. Maybe Notion won't end up in a haveibeenpwned email, but that only addresses half of a single one out of three of my objections to web applications.

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

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Post by danvayn »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #140

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,…

Its really easy to sign up for a Google account for stuff like this, and I have multiple accounts on gmail anyways in case I dont want to share my important personal email.

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

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Post by greenhatman »

louis-paul wrote: post #47

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…

They use Electron, but don't have a build for Linux. Why.

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

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Post by tommoor »

lymitshn wrote: post #217
tommoor wrote: post #194

If you like Notion but are looking for something open source, similarly polished and more wiki-focused then this will be up your street - http://getoutline.com We've been building it for 2 years, happy to answer questions.

Looks great, would be nice to have syntax highlight support for more languages and maybe MathJax support.

Definitely, with the syntax support it's just a matter of balancing bundle size – need to figure out a way to dynamically load the language syntax and then we can add all of the languages

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

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Post by SomeHacker44 »

mjulian wrote: post #51

I love the product, but the login workflow is awful. Why innovate on logins? We've solved that problem. Specifically, the login is a randomly-generated one-time code sent to your email address. Notion says this is more secure than them storing a username+password, but that's a dubious argument. They've also said this is two-factor auth (lolno). A side effect of this is that Notion is unusable on my mobile device sinc…

Thanks for telling me this. I will definitely avoid Notion now. I want a username/password combo at the very least, both different for every site I use, and preferably with TOTP as well. I never want my email to be used for security purposes as it is among the most hackable target out there.

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

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Post by jefersondaniel »

dawnerd wrote: post #220
johnzimmerman wrote: post #203

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.

Disabling by the browser will take no effect on the app or other browsers.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

louis-paul wrote: post #47

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…

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

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Post by outworlder »

louis-paul wrote: post #47

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…

Notion is all about manipulating 'content', which is what browsers excel at.a

Were it not in Electron, it would most likely still have a big web widget occupying most of its frame.

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