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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 acutesoftware »

djhworld wrote: post #244

The amount of times note taking apps and products appear on the HN front page is quite amusing. Has anyone ever cracked this nut? I've been using Joplin for about a year, it works. Could be better, but does the job

I think the problem is that it isn't a single nut to crack - everyone works slightly differently, some like a clean interface, others like all the info laid for them.

With Notes and tasks, it is quite personal, so any issues in the interface are seen as worse, eg we are more likely to accept a slightly shitty interface when paying a bill or logging on to a corporate system than a product we use daily.

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

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Post by bfdm »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #252
patcon wrote: post #163

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> 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…

I absolutely agree with your general principle, as I read it: price is not necessarily determined by your cost (which goes up only incrementally with added users), but by the value (what the customer is willing to pay, which may go up more significantly). Specifically, however, I am indicating by my post that I'm not willing to pay 4x the price, for privilege of sharing - it does not have that value to me and it's no…

This suggests an opportunity for a separately priced "family" option to allow sharing for non-commercial use. Say $7/mo for up to 4 users?

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Post by dawnerd »

jlgaddis wrote: post #305
nofunsir wrote: post #230

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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?

Mine has an expires set: 2046-05-31T19:47:10.000Z

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

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Post by alphagrep12345 »

One more todo and notes app. Why does the world need so many such apps? I always find myself changing from one such app to another, porting all the existing notes. Currently I'm using onenote and am very content with it. But there's always this feeling that something's not quite right. I tried evernote, onenote, and several other notes apps. I don't understand why I try so many note taking apps. I think others too feel the same way. Any ideas why?

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Post by woadwarrior01 »

yellowapple wrote: post #248
woolvalley wrote: post #157

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The world is not android ;) Permissions and proxies exist. Notion is a web app to AFAIK

Android would actually leave you in a much better position than Windows or macOS here, since the app has to at least go to the trouble of enumerating and requesting the permissions it wants. PC operating systems don't typically sandbox desktop apps by default, so the Windows/macOS versions of this would have free reign over anything accessible by your user.

On the latest version of macOS (Mojave), applications need to request the users’ permission before accessing photos, emails, webcam, microphone, calendars, and contacts, like how they do on iOS.

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Post by [deleted] »

ivanzhao wrote: post #284
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's founder here. Thank you for the kind words - we are honored :-) To be honest, nothing we are doing is that new. Most of the ideas came from the 70s-80s (Alan Kay, Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson...) We are just applying a fresh coat of paint. Of course, there's still a lot more to be done to fully realize these pioneers' dreams of computing as a medium for everyone – not just programmers like us. If you are inter…

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

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Post by yellowapple »

woadwarrior01 wrote: post #315
yellowapple wrote: post #248

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Android would actually leave you in a much better position than Windows or macOS here, since the app has to at least go to the trouble of enumerating and requesting the permissions it wants. PC operating systems don't typically sandbox desktop apps by default, so the Windows/macOS versions of this would have free reign over anything accessible by your user.

On the latest version of macOS (Mojave), applications need to request the users’ permission before accessing photos, emails, webcam, microphone, calendars, and contacts, like how they do on iOS.

Neat. Hopefully that becomes standard practice for desktop operating systems.

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Post by Aeolun »

tommoor wrote: post #304
dawidd6 wrote: post #281

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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?

The service itself? SAML (e.g. Active Directory)?
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