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Notion's mid-life crisis
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Re: Notion's mid-life crisis
#62Another anecdote added to the "I don't get notion" pile. I just don't get notion. I use Apple Notes for everything id use notion for + scratch.txt on every project folder root. (i've used notion, quip, gdocs, dropbox paper) Notion lives rent free in my mind because while im indifferent to it, people seem to LOVE it. and that's so fascinating. even this article, I upvoted it because the conversation about notion is in…
Humans naturally love to twiddle knobs and move things around. Notion attaches that behavior with money making through an affiliate program. Result is a billion dollar company.
Re: Notion's mid-life crisis
#63Another anecdote added to the "I don't get notion" pile. I just don't get notion. I use Apple Notes for everything id use notion for + scratch.txt on every project folder root. (i've used notion, quip, gdocs, dropbox paper) Notion lives rent free in my mind because while im indifferent to it, people seem to LOVE it. and that's so fascinating. even this article, I upvoted it because the conversation about notion is in…
Notion is popular because it is infinitely customizable. Want to draw in your Notion database? Done. Want to do Kanban? Easy. Gantt Charts? Child's play. Whatever you want Notion to do it likely can be and it is available on any device you want and you can share it with your team so working with other people is not a pain in the ass like it is with most plain text note taking.
Re: Notion's mid-life crisis
#64I enjoyed Notion at first for certain tasks, but it became much less enjoyable as everyone tried to force everything into emoji-laden Notion docs. The Notion spaces used by the Product and Program managers I worked with in the past few years have become a collection of half-finished documents that are always out of date, hard to find, and often superseded by some new Notion page they created but forgot to tell us abo…
> A tool that tries to be everything to everyone Jira doesn't try to be everything. It's a project management app. It does nothing else. Notion is wiki, CRM, project management, calendar etc.
people also use jira as a support ticket system.
Sprint planning system.
Kanban system.
I’ve seen it set up so that it can track work across kanban teams and scrum teams.
Jira has deep integration with bitbucket, confluence, and GitHub.
It can manage your CI pipelines as well.
Jira is an anything app with a bend towards project management. Setting up jira workflows is a whole career.
Source: I worked at Atlassian for 5 years and they use jira as the backbone for _everything_. It all flows into jira.
Re: Notion's mid-life crisis
#65I enjoyed Notion at first for certain tasks, but it became much less enjoyable as everyone tried to force everything into emoji-laden Notion docs. The Notion spaces used by the Product and Program managers I worked with in the past few years have become a collection of half-finished documents that are always out of date, hard to find, and often superseded by some new Notion page they created but forgot to tell us abo…
> but forgot to tell us about until we had spent weeks following the old one.
To be fair that’s not on Notion per se, there’s an underlying communication problem (which it sounds like your google doc solves!).
Re: Notion's mid-life crisis
#66Another anecdote added to the "I don't get notion" pile. I just don't get notion. I use Apple Notes for everything id use notion for + scratch.txt on every project folder root. (i've used notion, quip, gdocs, dropbox paper) Notion lives rent free in my mind because while im indifferent to it, people seem to LOVE it. and that's so fascinating. even this article, I upvoted it because the conversation about notion is in…
God I hate notion. The way it splits columns until you have like two horizontal inches to type in, the rubber-band linking of documents, just the total lack of opinionation outside of templates..
I might be strange but I just really vibed with Confluence and I’d be happy with it if people would commit to it.
Re: Notion's mid-life crisis
#67I generally think Notion is a pretty great product but IMO it's the poster child for "jack of all trades, master of none."
Yes, lots of things can be done in Notion, but most of them are done better elsewhere with dedicated tools.
I think it's core functionality as a team wiki (aka a confluence replacement) is the one thing it does best and better than most competitors...
Re: Notion's mid-life crisis
#68Another anecdote added to the "I don't get notion" pile. I just don't get notion. I use Apple Notes for everything id use notion for + scratch.txt on every project folder root. (i've used notion, quip, gdocs, dropbox paper) Notion lives rent free in my mind because while im indifferent to it, people seem to LOVE it. and that's so fascinating. even this article, I upvoted it because the conversation about notion is in…
cant agree more, I initially used to think I am using it wrong but seriously I cant get notion.
Re: Notion's mid-life crisis
#69I just want an AI assistant that can organize things for me in some kind of note taking /wiki/something… it needs to take raw data and make it useful… you know like an assitant would, specifically around projects etc…
Re: Notion's mid-life crisis
#70Another anecdote added to the "I don't get notion" pile. I just don't get notion. I use Apple Notes for everything id use notion for + scratch.txt on every project folder root. (i've used notion, quip, gdocs, dropbox paper) Notion lives rent free in my mind because while im indifferent to it, people seem to LOVE it. and that's so fascinating. even this article, I upvoted it because the conversation about notion is in…
Apple Notes is underrated. There is no flashy features to distract you. Just you and your notes.