Those cartoons remind me of the Persepolis animated film:
Notion for everyone
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I’ve had a similar experience with Notion. “Jack of all trades and master of none” resonates strongly with me. This lead me to my latest startup https://froosthq.com/ which is Notion inspired and aimed solely at software teams.
Does this product "exist" yet or is it vaporware we're putting our email addresses in for? Page seems very light on info or even pricing.
The product exists indeed and it’s very stable. Been out there for years.
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... You have a cookie pop-up that says, "Can we use cookies?" but the only option is a "Yes" button. If you're not giving people a choice, why even pretend?
Tracking scripts / cookies are only loaded if you click "Yes", otherwise they are not loaded at all.
Not having a clear way to deny personalised tracking is also in violation of the EU Cookie Directive.
From looking at the currency used though, it seems that you don't need to concern yourself with EU stuff soon =)
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Good points. It seems you might enjoy Fibery[1], it addresses most of these problems (and has internal whiteboard as draw.io replacement as well). But I’m biased as a Fibery founder. [1] https://fibery.io
your site looks amazing and the I don't get it button is really great. But... even after looking at all the four separate landing pages I have no idea what exactly fibery could do for me
We'll re-do the product page with the Fibery 2.0 release somewhere in July. Thanks for the feedback!
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#375I'm sad that so many of the top comments here are Notion skeptical. I have loved Notion from the very beginning and used it as a personal repository for a long time. More recently, we used Notion - where 'we' = a group of professional volunteers; professional in that everyone had skills to contribute and volunteer in that no one is being paid for those contributions - to create a Citizen-to-Citizen long term support…
Hey i am originally from india and what you said resonated with me especially related to the issues faced by migrants. Any way I can contribute to your project?
Thanks.
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#376You're the product.
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That's funny. One time while converting a prototype to less of a prototype, I created like 40 PRs in 40 working days. There were so many in-flight at one time that I couldn't really use normal issue trackers. Instead I created one GitHub issue with a table of items. Each item had an emoji in the first column that indicated its current status. The gear was 'in-progress', 'eyes' review, 'ship' deploying, and green chec…
lmao this sounds insane. I fully admit and recognize - I like reading tax forms :-|. The more old school, the better. Give me docs set in Times New Roman, all this frivolous stuff is giving me a headache. Now...where is my walnut cane and financial times set in orange paper? Please link me the github issue so I can make use of a bottle of kerosene I've got left from 1940's gas lamp.
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#378A couple of months ago, I published a blog post* about maintaining my personal knowledge base as a software engineer. Notion plays a significant role in this setup.
I do agree with others that Notion's flexibility can turn into a problem. Therefore, it is essential to clearly define use cases and conventions. Luckily, you don't have to argue about those with anyone else if you use it as a personal knowledge base ;)
* https://tkainrad.dev/posts/managing-my-personal-knowledge-ba...
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Github just did the same thing! It’s because the math works like this: They’d need 1,000 people to pay them $4 to match a single enterprise company paying them $4k/mo. So they just need one of those 1,000 people to bring Notion into their company, and they’re ahead. If they get 10, they’re way ahead. (This is slightly simplified, of course)
Don't overlook the importance of the economy. It's tough to get individual customers to pay $4/month for a service like this in a good economy. (They were already giving it away to academics, which will never be a lucrative market.) I wouldn't want to be selling Notion to individuals in an economy like this.
This is exactly what I did. Free student user. When I started working at a new company, and they wanted to modernise internal knowledge tools, I recommended Notion. Fingers crossed it gets traction.
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#380I use Joplin and sync all my notes to Dropbox. It cannot be called a Notion alternative exactly, because Notion's flexibility to manage different things using "blocks" is unmatched for. However after using Notion, I felt that most of my time/energy goes into understanding how to create the template and no it's not a one time thing. Every time I add a to-do/task or an issue or use it as a bookmark manager, I am often…
Another vote for Joplin here. All my notes are synced to Fastmail's WebDAV endpoint, I own all my data and can export it as plain markdown at any time.
The only feature it's lacking for me currently is a Drafts-like quick capture action on the iOS version.
Notion looks like one more super-hyped web-app, who will get insane amounts of VC money and start adding features no one needs or wants just to spend it all. Then it'll be a bloated mess that's not quick or easy to use.
What I would support is a note-taking solution, that is run like Basecamp. No VC money, no immense hype, just people dogfooding their own product and keeping it lean, functional and profitable.