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

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Post by bluntcoder » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:32 PM UTC

droopyEyelids wrote: post #257

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…

Can you link to the Merge software you mention? It's a difficult name to google.

https://www.scootersoftware.com/index.php - (I'm not the OP but I favour Araxis Merge https://www.araxis.com/merge/index.en over Beyond Compare)

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

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Post by patrickxie » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:32 PM UTC

does this work over in china?

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

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Post by e12e » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:32 PM UTC

chooseaname wrote: post #205

I love this. Slightly OT, but does anyone have some links to open source apps / tutorials from creating pages that are fairly free form like this? I'm a backend kind of entity, so the front end is a mystery. Edit: I'm not asking in an "I'm going to make my own" kind of way. I'm asking in an "I've always been curious how other devs solve problems / create things" kind of way.

Do you mean like the notion service? I'm not a notion user, but from the description here, it sounds a lot like Google wave with less hype and more "product focus"...

Wave is now dead(?) and Free:

http://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html

https://github.com/apache/incubator-wave

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

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Post by andischo » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:33 PM UTC

In case anyone is interested in a similar open source solution that can be self hosted I can recommend Trilium (https://github.com/zadam/trilium). It was also recently featured on HN. I since host it on my private server and it works like a charm.

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

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:34 PM UTC

geekamongus wrote: post #114

egeozcan wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would running a business prevent them from offering a self-hosted solution? Look at Confluence, if you need examples.

Or MS Office :-B

Or every software product before about 2005.

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

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Post by camerondoll » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:39 PM UTC

notahacker wrote: post #132

chpmrc wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Couldn't help it. > For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

tbf I think the "I don't want to entrust all my notes to a startup that might not be here next year" issue is more relevant to the average person than "but surely you could roll your own if you were a desktop Linux user". On the other hand, I agree normal users don't want software to stick in docker containers, they want a nice friendly GUI that also happens to backup copies of their data somewhere they might be able…

They could sell a VPS with the app installed and only you would have access.

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

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Post by thecrumb » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:40 PM UTC

creativityland wrote: post #115

Some good alternatives - Quip ( https://quip.com ) - Airtable ( https://airtable.com ) - Taskade ( https://taskade.com )

- Notable (https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable)

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

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Post by asdkhadsj » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:43 PM UTC

Can anyone compare this to Dynalist? I've been experimenting with Dynalist as more of an information / brain dump tracker. A notepad, for people who can't write -_-. Yet, I'm not super happy with Dynalist.

Thoughts?

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

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Post by rrix2 » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:48 PM UTC

kjksf wrote: post #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…

Yikes, they don't have an official API? Hardly interested in making a closed system my "central source of truth"

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

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Post by phponpcp » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:48 PM UTC

ausjke wrote: post #62

I am uncomfortable to put all personal thoughts, diaries, etc into a non-self-hosting place. Can they dockerize this and sell that so I can self-host the docker image instead? for people that is not tech-savvy, what about they buy a docker-container-hosted-by-the-vendor-company but can encrypt the contents in a way that nobody else can peek into the content ever?

That is like so not worth their time and energy