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Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by theshrike79 »

rammy1234 wrote: post #101

I use basecamp for my personal organization. calendar, to-dos and share with my spouse. Its perfect. It's intuitive and easy to use. why not basecamp ?

I love Basecamp as a company, but it doesn't work as a generic note taking application.

I want to open my note taking solution, preferably with a shortcut and be able to jot down my thoughts right there. Plain text is fine, but markdown is preferred.

After I'm done writing, I can spend 10 seconds adding a tag or two so I can find it again using smart filters or searches.

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Post by ulisesrmzroche »

zestyping wrote: post #219
brainzap wrote: post #65

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I miss Trello: add task, edit, save.

Can anyone explain to me why Trello is so popular? I'm serious; I honestly don't get it. If I want to track tasks, I just make a Google Spreadsheet with a row for each task. This scales up easily to a hundred tasks or so, and it's straightforward to filter on a column to focus on particular categories or statuses. In Trello, I can see maybe 30 cards max before my screen space is all used up, and I spend so much time…

All the stuff you mentioned is not important when you’re collaborating on a project with others. Addition? Version control? Lol. Whatever.

Just because you don’t understand why people use Trello does not mean everyone’s a frivolous idiot.

What do you guys do for a living? Not a joke question.

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Post by [deleted] »

drannex wrote: post #291
fermienrico wrote: post #121

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Also, the whole Emoji's thing is distracting to me. I just want to see plain text in simple san-serif fonts, with borders (which are apparently outdated in favor of massive emptiness of negative space). Visual cognitive load is ok as far as the brain can process blocks of information. Such as a table with borders. When you have emojis, colors, effects, etc without clarity of separation, you get something that becomes…

+1 on that, I have an unreal disinterest in emojis in all forms.

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Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by ulisesrmzroche »

asaddhamani wrote: post #186
arkitaip wrote: post #100

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Only on HN can people question the existence of an app which has 50M users. Trello might not be this month's flavor but I'll be damned if it's not one of the most useful planning tools out there.

I don't know how Trello has 50M users, and how so many people and companies can use it for project management. For anything more than a single board, I find it terribly lacking in functionality. Can't even see all your cards across boards without scrolling 50 times.

Well then they’re something wrong with you and your understanding of what people want in software. Can you link an app that you’ve made that people actually use?

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

scblzn wrote: post #282

I tried it around November 2019, really liked Notion and the UI/UX of the product for some note taking/personal knowledge base, however I had to contact their security team through their support because TLS 1.0 was still enabled at this time. They say they are audited by NCC ( https://www.notion.so/Security-6c56b4854b624b0d8f36711018647... ) but I don't know how NCC missed this. They disabled TLS 1.0 few days after m…

Personally I don't mind a vanity domain, but what they could do is create a boring non-vanity domain for API calls and customer signup that isn't the .so domain.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

fabrika wrote: post #60
lm2s wrote: post #36

Notion consuming 10-15% CPU while on idle is a deal breaker to me. I wish they'd devote a bit more resources to fix this. (On macOS, don't know if this is the case on other OSes)

On iPadOS it ignores pointer and external keyboard. Wish their apps were more native to the platforms.

This is the downside of webapps, they have to reimplement all the UX that native apps have builtin. In this case, Apple updated things like buttons and text inputs in their native components, so any app using those didn't have to do anything to make it work as expected.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by omnimus »

jdhornby wrote: post #75
pcx wrote: post #49

I love using Notion, but I think the general discussion about it does not talk enough about how it's flexibility is also a problem many times. 1. Flexibility of blocks is a cognitive overhead for most folks in my team. They would rather prefer more constrained and opinionated approaches like Trello 2. Notion is currently a jack of all trades and master of none. We have tried to use it as a wiki, project tracker, issu…

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.

Funnily enough originaly the saying was "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one." Seems like it got pretty skewed over time.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by marvinblum »

zerubeus wrote: post #313
marvinblum wrote: post #210

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It's not a replacement for Drive as most note taking app are... well for note taking and not file storages. I would recommend to use Dropbox if you want both in one tool or separate those two use cases.

https://www.notion.so/personal If you scroll down in this page you'll see they are saying it replace Google Drive

Okay... well that's not the case I guess.
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