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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 halr9000 »

ukyrgf wrote: post #282
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 really like Notion and have this same feeling. The app being Electron is a really big bummer for me, though. Performance is terrible on my Android phone. I really want to ditch Evernote but nothing seems to compare still.

It made me sad that the Evernote migration wasn't full fidelity. Been a few months, but I recall it didn't bring over pictures.

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

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Post by wtmt »

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…

> A side effect of this is that Notion is unusable on my mobile device since I have no email on it.

It’s unusable for me as well, but for a similar reason on the computer. When I’m on a computer, the last thing I want is to be forced to login to email for a code since I use web based email (which I don’t keep open all the time). Even if I were to use a desktop client, I wouldn’t have it kept open all the time.

These are “chores” added to the user experience.

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

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Post by manigandham »

givelinuxlove wrote: post #353
ivanzhao wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Give linux love. I was interested in trying it after reading comments, but as it is I can't touch it until there is a linux build.

Notion is a webapp. You can use it fine with a browser. I think everyone is missing the fact that the desktop apps are not necessary.

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

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Post by acjohnson55 »

Aeolun wrote: post #322
acjohnson55 wrote: post #86

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At least in Notion's case, it's a proper enterprise SaaS product with a trial tier, rather than a free consumer product attempting to go enterprise.

Proper enterprise products are hosted on-prem. This is exactly why atlassian is pretty much the only contender in a lot of cases.

I don't know if I agree with that distinction, but an on-prem version would be nice.

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

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Post by elandrum »

givelinuxlove wrote: post #353
ivanzhao wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Give linux love. I was interested in trying it after reading comments, but as it is I can't touch it until there is a linux build.

I downloaded the app months ago for my Mac but honestly forgot I even had it installed until I read this thread. I use the website every day just fine. There’s no need for the app.

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

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Post by killjoywashere »

These "I will organize all your world" apps pop up at a non-trivial rate. Seems like they're mostly designing some database tables and then serving a front-end. Am I missing something? Is there something deeper than database design that I'm missing?

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

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Post by copperx »

killjoywashere wrote: post #367

These "I will organize all your world" apps pop up at a non-trivial rate. Seems like they're mostly designing some database tables and then serving a front-end. Am I missing something? Is there something deeper than database design that I'm missing?

No. But I wouldn't dismiss them on the basis of being trivial to implement. The added value is in the UX.

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

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Post by hanspeter »

nofunsir wrote: post #225
johnzimmerman wrote: post #203

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You can opt out of Fullstory tracking here > https://www.fullstory.com/optout/

These types of "services" should be opt-in, not opt-out.

In the EU they are by law. In reality not all websites disclose all services they share data with though. And all users click accept in the cookie pop-up anyway.
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