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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 fredguth »

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…

I am a paying customer and it has always stand out for me in terms of UX. The only problem I see is that sometimes when I am editing a page I need to use the mouse because the keyboard just does not work in the way I am used to. This is a huge UX pain and I don't understand how didn't they fix it yet.

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

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Post by giodamelio »

WalterSear wrote: post #298
marviel wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't mind, could you ping me as well? I'm looking for a similar solution

Definitely. I'm turning the last corners on the mvp, and very eager to put it in front of people. I very much want to talk about it, but it feels a little meaningless to do so until I've shipped it :)

Looking forward to it!

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

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Post by tommoor »

atschantz wrote: post #291
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.

I previously tried to sign up via a Google account but it required a 'company Google account' - I was slightly confused about the reasoning behind this.

It's designed for teams, Google auth is used to avoid having to manage invites etc. If you could sign in with any old Google account then it would introduce a class of problems with having to manage invites / user management / accidental duplicate teams.

Having said that, I do think it would be cool if signing in with your personal gmail account gave you a personal non-team wiki.

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

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Post by tommoor »

dawidd6 wrote: post #281
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.

Is there a way to sign up without Slack or G+?

Nope, fraid not. Is there another service your team uses for identity when signing up for tools?

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

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Post by jlgaddis »

nofunsir wrote: post #230
dawnerd wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 }

> "Session": true,

As in: this cookie will stick around as long as your browser is running, but when you close it and start it up again it will be gone?

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

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Post by safanycom »

drsh0 wrote: post #299

It's great to see Notion get continued exposure. I feel it truly is a great step towards productivity online. I made a list earlier (using Notion) of some next-get productivity platforms that caught my eye if anyone is interested: https://www.notion.so/Next-gen-Productivity-Platform-Researc... It includes both these all-in-one type of tools along with nice project management and spreadsheet/db tools like airtable.

Thanks!

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

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Post by ajflores1604 »

+1 for having a native linux client. I'm not sure what the process would be, but being electron based I can't imagine it being extremely hard. Right now I'm using https://github.com/sysdrum/notion-app to basically wrap a browser instance. But there's a very noticeable performance difference between this hacky solution and my friends native electron client on MacOS. Especially on my heavier pages with lots of photos. Notion has completely changed my life and workflow, but I feel like I'm starting to run up against the limits of what I can do on the operating system I'm on. I even considered reaching out to CodeWeavers the makers of Crossover to see what it would take to make a linux port, but it seems like I actually have to be the owner of the app being ported for that to be an option.

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

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Post by evertheylen »

ajflores1604 wrote: post #307

+1 for having a native linux client. I'm not sure what the process would be, but being electron based I can't imagine it being extremely hard. Right now I'm using https://github.com/sysdrum/notion-app to basically wrap a browser instance. But there's a very noticeable performance difference between this hacky solution and my friends native electron client on MacOS. Especially on my heavier pages with lots of photos.…

I'm curious, why don't you use a 'normal' browser? I use Notion quite heavily myself, and have never had any performance issues in Firefox (on Linux).

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

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Post by shostack »

hirundo wrote: post #131
mxwsn wrote: post #39

For me, Notion replaced Evernote and I haven't looked back. Three features that have been particularly useful for personal productivity are 1) explicit support for Kanban board-ing tasks and similar to-do management 2) collapsible blocks 3) substantially smoother linking to, or embedding, notes within notes Notion is just as sleek as Evernote for small independent notes, but these two features allow Notion to scale m…

Evernote's killer feature for me is the automatic OCR on images, included in the search. Any way to rig that in Notion?

Is there any sort of IFTTT integration? There's gotta be some way to rig this up.

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

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Post by eslaught »

greenhatman wrote: post #234
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.

You can access it via web with any modern web browser, so does it matter?
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