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Post by chpmrc »

Lazare wrote: post #36

I love the idea of Notion, and I love what the team is trying to do, and I love almost all of Notion. Unfortunately, it's too slow , at least for me. For a tool like that I need it to be a frictionless as possible, and Notion (for me!) is just a bit too annoying for me to put up with after extended usage. If you value features over snappiness, Notion may be great for you though. It's an amazing concept! And I certain…

I've been waiting for their apps to be snappier and have better offline support for almost 2 years. I'm so glad to have found Joplin. It also supports E2E encryption so damn well. Support for plugins was also recently added and that's a big plus.

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Post by alex_portabella »

scrollaway wrote: post #24
alexh1 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take a look at Portabella ( https://portabella.io ), we're not feature complete with Notion but making serious progress!

I don't see a way to self host it. Are you willing to consider it? It seems like you're targeting a particular niche and not having it open source or self hostable seems like a mistake.

No way right now. I do think that self hosting takes away most benefits we provide.

Hopefully open source soon!

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Post by dvt »

krono wrote: post #31
kbos87 wrote: post #26

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Can you elaborate on what some of those data privacy concerns are? I’ve centralized more and more in Notion and I’m admittedly a layperson when it comes to really understanding what questions I should even ask to judge the security of something like Notion.

The fact that Notion staff technically has unrestricted access to all user and account data legally prevents me from putting the vast majority of my work-related items on there. On top of that there's so much tracking going on that even Facebook would be jealous. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Check out their T&C and Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/Terms-Conditions-4e1c5dd3e3de45dfa4a8e... https://www.…

Not sure how this is different from something like Dropbox (which stores stuff on S3 iirc). So technically, you can have Dropbox people looking through your stuff, and you can also have Amazon people looking through your stuff. Obviously, if this ever happens without a good reason, employees that do this can get fired and/or sued (and the company itself might also be held liable). Everything is also logged, so there's a paper trail. I skimmed over both the T&C and the Privacy Policy and it doesn't really seem that Notion breaks from this norm.

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Post by iamacyborg »

threatofrain wrote: post #40
krono wrote: post #15

I have some serious data privacy concerns with Notion. The excruciating slowness of the platform in all its forms and iterations is also completely unworkable. A real shame as I really need something like this in my life - both personal and professional.

While this has become a thread for talking about alternatives, has anyone found a solution with a premium Latex + markdown experience? So far I've found VSC to be the best experience.

Zettlr.

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Post by alex_portabella »

hrktb wrote: post #28
alexh1 wrote: post #18

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Take a look at Portabella ( https://portabella.io ), we're not feature complete with Notion but making serious progress!

Looks nice ! Sorry I couldn’t find the help, is there a way to format tables in the documents ? (sadly for me “portobella table“ is basically impossible to web search...)

Not yet, need to add that component. We're using Slate.js under the hood so it doesn't come out of the box.

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Post by thom »

Lazare wrote: post #36

I love the idea of Notion, and I love what the team is trying to do, and I love almost all of Notion. Unfortunately, it's too slow , at least for me. For a tool like that I need it to be a frictionless as possible, and Notion (for me!) is just a bit too annoying for me to put up with after extended usage. If you value features over snappiness, Notion may be great for you though. It's an amazing concept! And I certain…

As someone who wants to replace a bunch of stuff in Jira with Notion I have never really perceived performance problems, but I guess it isn't the snappiest.

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Post by icu »

krono wrote: post #35
icu wrote: post #30

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I share your concerns, that's why I made sure they are GDPR compliant before becoming a subscriber. If you're not based in the UK or EU, say you're in the US... well good luck. Swiss cheese has fewer holes than US privacy laws! Having said all that, as a user of Notion I've been incredibly impressed. Their support staff seem friendly and responsive and they keep making the product better and better. My only gripes ar…

GDPR Compliance is nice and all, but as long as their staff has the ability to access my data, I just can't legally host most of my business data on that platform. Other than that and the terrible performance I love Notion and I really hope they get this sorted. I'll even keep paying for my personal account (drop in the bucket, I know) in the hopes that they will.

For me GDPR was a make or break. I know I'm putting faith in Notion staff to follow GDPR guidelines because if they accessed my information without an extremely good reason it would be a breach.

The only other option would be for me to create my own solution, and while I could do that, I don't have the time or the desire to do it.

I think you got to be careful and read the TOS and know what you're in for. For example, I stopped using the free version of Grammarly after I found out they weren't GDPR compliant and their support wouldn't confirm if they were going to be GDPR compliant. A year later I evaluated Grammarly again and they were, so I subscribed to Grammarly premium.

However some companies are so egregious in their lack of respect of privacy that I will never trust them again, for example Facebook. Others are so impossible to get away from, like Google, that I limit my exposure as much as possible.

Bottom line is be aware of how your privacy will be handled and make sure you're conscious of the trade off decisions you're making.

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Post by Osiris »

alexh1 wrote: post #18
krono wrote: post #15

I have some serious data privacy concerns with Notion. The excruciating slowness of the platform in all its forms and iterations is also completely unworkable. A real shame as I really need something like this in my life - both personal and professional.

Take a look at Portabella ( https://portabella.io ), we're not feature complete with Notion but making serious progress!

From the website it looks like Portabella is a more focused application, while notion is anything from a wiki to a Kanban board.

My company is evaluating Notion as a replacement for Confluence mostly, though we are looking at it's Kanban features also.

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