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I would love to use a product like Notion, but I cannot leave my vim/Emacs keybindings behind! Would be cool if they had the ability to import / export structured text.
Does it allow exporting data to human readable form like csv? I am very wary of exposing myself to the risk of losing all this information and history if the company goes under or if I want to change to something else.
Just in case someone might need it: I reverse engineered their API and wrote (an unofficial) client for accessing the data: https://github.com/kjk/notionapi It's for Go but one could easily port it to any other language. It's just HTTP requests and some light processing of JSON responses. I use it so that I can have my blog content in Notion. In a daily cron job I download the data from Notion, convert it to HTML and…
Used notion for about 6 months, but stopped for two main reasons: 1. It's extremely slow on even a new iPhone - about 6-7 seconds until I can start typing a note. By then I forget what I wanted to write. It's basically a webview of a very heavy web app, so it's not snappy at all. 2. No offline support whatsoever. In addition it feels like they have abandoned development or are busy being acquired (~bi-weekly updates…
I didn't know about Bear. Just had a look on their website and the application and user experience looks pretty stunning. However, I am not quite sure it justifies paying for this service when Apple Notes has got a lot better in the past few years (I also feel confident in the privacy approach of Apple). Out of curiosity, what features make you use Bear and not Notes? I take a lot of notes, and if something can make…
Biggest positive: The variety of formats & integrations. I use “toggles” and tables a ton. This was the main reason I switched and it’s enough of a differentiator to keep me around.
Biggest negative: Notion doesn’t handle a large volume of notes well. There is no easily accessible metadata, no tagging, no way to see a table of notes sorted by create date as far as I can tell.
Other observations:
It’s terrifyingly easy to delete a note and not realize it. Notes show up as a line item in their parent note; a simple press of the delete button and a note is gone with no warning
Sharing is also a little funny. Shared notes show up in a separate workspace and are easy to forget about.
Also, no offline support at all... if you aren’t connected, you can’t do anything on the desktop or iOS app.
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Yikes, they don't have an official API? Hardly interested in making a closed system my "central source of truth"
Official API is on their roadmap: https://www.notion.so/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba...
Just in case someone might need it: I reverse engineered their API and wrote (an unofficial) client for accessing the data: https://github.com/kjk/notionapi It's for Go but one could easily port it to any other language. It's just HTTP requests and some light processing of JSON responses. I use it so that I can have my blog content in Notion. In a daily cron job I download the data from Notion, convert it to HTML and…
Yikes, they don't have an official API? Hardly interested in making a closed system my "central source of truth"
Whether there's a programmatic API or not, that's another matter entirely.
Notion looks great, and I've been hoping to migrate it. There are two big problems. One is the migration path from Evernote. If you look at all the current notetaking apps, none of them seem to have capitalized on the fact that there are lots of unhappy Evernote users out there who would kill for a smooth, painless migration path. Instead, these apps ask you to export your Evernote notes as HTML, something which Ever…
The database is evernotes internal structure, and can change. The HTML at least is their official export and somewhat stable. I bet when you search on github you will find some scripts converting the database into html. But for a company it might be to much hassle to maintain such a tool.