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

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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…

FYI, Bear does not support markdown table syntax

They recently announced that table support is coming: https://mailchi.mp/shinyfrog/bear-sneak-peek-2019?e=61b84ce0...

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you try taking a stab at explaining how your mind maps work?

I'll start by saying they're not strict mind maps; they're a cross between mind maps and spider diagrams. If I'm listening to a talk, I'll be jotting down the key concepts in the map, just like anyone else would do with bullet points. But I'm then linking them together, where their talk jumps between ideas. Connections are the vital part. The closest software to what my brain thinks like is https://www.literatureandl…

Thanks for the overview! I will definitely try incorporating a similar approach in the future.

I can definitely see how filtering out some of that information can help focus on a specific node and immediate relationships. Comparing against other seemingly unrelated maps could be interesting as well.

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

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I made a Python API wrapper in case annoying would find it useful: https://learningequality.org/r/notion-py-an-unofficial-pytho...

It has full read/write support for Notion data, with a local data store that live-updates async when data changes on Notion, including callbacks. And you can manipulate database entries using classes with columns mapped to slugified attributes.

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

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post #62

I am uncomfortable to put all personal thoughts, diaries, etc into a non-self-hosting place. Can they dockerize this and sell that so I can self-host the docker image instead? for people that is not tech-savvy, what about they buy a docker-container-hosted-by-the-vendor-company but can encrypt the contents in a way that nobody else can peek into the content ever?

For Diary/Journal use only: If you are mac/ios user i've created app which uses iCloud as backend, but you can export all entries to markdown. https://pureformstudio.com/diarly Think the reason for non-self-hosting is price really. One time purchase is.. well it's one time.

Looks nice! would jump on this if it supported Android :)
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