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

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

#81
post #73

Only 1000 blocks for free 1000 blocks == 1/3 of Moby Dick? that sounds like a terrible deal compared to evernote and all the other apps this promises to replace

> free

> terrible deal

God forbid that anyone ever charge for their software.

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

#82

I've been working on a similar project more suited to my own tastes. It's free and online and in-progress. jumproot.com. Sure, it's self-promotion, but highly pertinent.

While your project seems nice, at this point in time there is little overlap with the concepts found in notion. Did you publish a roadmap, that would allow us to differentiate it from something more like evernote?

Respectfully, I disagree. Notion and jumproot both have the philosophy of an arbitrary node structure used for composition. I prefer my ui, that's why I'm working on it.

Thanks for your feedback though.

No I haven't published a roadmap. I don't liken jumproot to evernote much.

To illustrate my point, see the Viewer node types in the demo. You can see that it allows composition of documents using the node structure. Was super handy in university.

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

#83
post #9

This isn't self-hosted? I'm interested in a self-hosted solution that uses local markdown files and directories to manage content.

This is one thing I've wanted. A local app that lets me store all my data with markdown syntax, syntax highlighting, in local files and directories, specifically for macOS although a cross platform app would be fine. One that doesn't require an account or the internet at all for it to work. I've wanted this kind of app for many years (and wouldn't be opposed to making it if no existing solution is all that great at i…

I’ve been using Quiver for a few years, and love it. Totally replaced Evernote for me. Not sure if they have syntax highlighting though — there is a “code” cell, but I haven’t used it.

http://happenapps.com

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

#84
I too am a big Notion fan. However, I have a ton of things I would improve, two of which I kinda solved already: drawing input [0] and inline math [1]. The success of these has led me to create a small slack group to discuss other such hacks, more info at [2].

[0]: https://www.notion.so/evertheylen/Notation-e7a4f861a5ed4d14a... [1]: https://www.notion.so/evertheylen/Notion-Inline-Math-9c5047a... [2]: https://www.notion.so/notionhacks/Notion-Hacks-27b92f71afcd4...

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

#86
post #44
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(disclaimer: I'm building something similar) Why is it every time something like Notion is mentioned, there is always someone who wants "local, self-hosted, Markdown"? Just build it yourself. This clearly shows you have no understanding of the product at hand. Notion is so incredibly powerful that Markdown doesn't even scratch the surface here.

I'd prefer a local or self-hosted product because when the innevitable "incredible journey" blog post comes out, I don't want to have to try and migrate everything to a new service. If I've paid for a product, I can at least keep using it as-is when the company goes under.

At least in Notion's case, it's a proper enterprise SaaS product with a trial tier, rather than a free consumer product attempting to go enterprise.

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

#87
post #30

This isn't self-hosted? I'm interested in a self-hosted solution that uses local markdown files and directories to manage content.

(disclaimer: I'm building something similar) Why is it every time something like Notion is mentioned, there is always someone who wants "local, self-hosted, Markdown"? Just build it yourself. This clearly shows you have no understanding of the product at hand. Notion is so incredibly powerful that Markdown doesn't even scratch the surface here.

You're pointing out that there seems to be this unmet demand for a self-hosted markdown based product. Rather than wonder why people keep asking for that, maybe you should include those features in whatever it is that you are building.

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

#88
post #56

I'm concerned about the privacy of this service. Do company employees have (or are able to get) access to users' private data? Is there any data mining in use?

According to things I discovered on their privacy pages here:

https://www.notion.so/willchatham/Terms-and-Privacy-28ffdd08...

They encrypt your data at rest, have their stuff audited by a third party quarterly, and give the employees some amount of security training.

The thing I am curious about is that to log in, you don't have a password. Rather, then send a temporary login code to your email address. Not sure how I feel about that.

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

#89
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?

Couldn't help it.

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

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

#90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes! we did start using it and loved it, until we realized needing to pay $20/month for it -- which was a bit out of our current budget.

I pay for one personal account and then just share a page with my spouse and then she can put anything she wants in it, including creating subpages. It works great for us.

A proper family plan would be nice.
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