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Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by arkitaip »

awill wrote: post #89

After Evernote started going downhill, I moved to plain markdown inside a Google Drive folder. I use the best, native app for each platform and have zero risk of being affected by a single company cancelling, closing,, increasing the price etc.. Notion does seem pretty interesting, but if they ever shut, stop innovating, or are outshined by a competitor, I don't fancy the idea of moving everything

You aren't really missing much with Notion. It's over engineered and to easy to mess around with hours when you should be getting things done.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by andreilys »

I had a really bad experience with Notion, used it for some time, hit some arbitrary 1000 block limit that no matter what I deleted I couldn't get rid of.

Now I rely on vimwiki and fzf. More robust and future-proof. Who knows how long Notion will be around?

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by drcongo »

jdhornby wrote: post #75
pcx wrote: post #49

I love using Notion, but I think the general discussion about it does not talk enough about how it's flexibility is also a problem many times. 1. Flexibility of blocks is a cognitive overhead for most folks in my team. They would rather prefer more constrained and opinionated approaches like Trello 2. Notion is currently a jack of all trades and master of none. We have tried to use it as a wiki, project tracker, issu…

I’ve had a similar experience with Notion. “Jack of all trades and master of none” resonates strongly with me. This lead me to my latest startup https://froosthq.com/ which is Notion inspired and aimed solely at software teams.

That looks pretty nice. I've put my email in your signup as this is something that I've built half of about 5 times now.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by andreilys »

awill wrote: post #89

After Evernote started going downhill, I moved to plain markdown inside a Google Drive folder. I use the best, native app for each platform and have zero risk of being affected by a single company cancelling, closing,, increasing the price etc.. Notion does seem pretty interesting, but if they ever shut, stop innovating, or are outshined by a competitor, I don't fancy the idea of moving everything

Agreed. I've been burned way too many times by companies being acquired (few months later product is sunset), shut down, or are forced to aggressively monetize.

Re: Notion for everyone

#95

Post by jilles »

gkoberger wrote: post #53
avolcano wrote: post #5

This is kinda weird, because I was happily giving them $4/month after running out of space in their trial plan, and now I absolutely have no reason to keep giving them money. Which, sure, I guess I'll take it. My $4/month isn't going to make or break their business and they probably barely give a shit about getting money for personal usage. Does remind me that my usage of their app doesn't align with their business m…

Github just did the same thing! It’s because the math works like this: They’d need 1,000 people to pay them $4 to match a single enterprise company paying them $4k/mo. So they just need one of those 1,000 people to bring Notion into their company, and they’re ahead. If they get 10, they’re way ahead. (This is slightly simplified, of course)

I never thought about it in this way, very interesting and super logical actually.

Re: Notion for everyone

#96

Post by Fiveplus »

As an non-user and since a quick glance at the website helps little - what exactly is notions USP and what makes it different than a standard note taking app synchronous across platforms?

Re: Notion for everyone

#97

Post by abuehrle »

_fzslm wrote: post #45
franky47 wrote: post #23

The one thing that bothers me about Notion (and Slack and other "everything in one place" tools), is the lack of encryption. I might have FAANGophobia, but whenever there is a free tier without a form of end-to-end encryption in place, it feels like a data puddle waiting to become a lake. That being said, having clear-text data would allow features like an API on publicly shared pages/blocks, to use Notion as a CMS.…

this is the only thing that stops me from using Notion, too. just downloaded it and it looks like it would change my life... except i don't own the data. right now i'm trying out Outline [1] which has an option for self hosting. [1] https://github.com/outline/outline

I just checked out Outline. It seems strange that the landing page example is lifted straight from Stripe's docs[1] with "Stripe" replaced by "Acme".

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks#what-are-webhooks

Re: Notion for everyone

#98

Post by skipnup »

awill wrote: post #89

After Evernote started going downhill, I moved to plain markdown inside a Google Drive folder. I use the best, native app for each platform and have zero risk of being affected by a single company cancelling, closing,, increasing the price etc.. Notion does seem pretty interesting, but if they ever shut, stop innovating, or are outshined by a competitor, I don't fancy the idea of moving everything

Can you recommend a markdown native app for Windows? Currently switching to simple markdown notes myself but a bit annoyed always opening VS Code for a tiny note.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by 7ewis »

Currently use the Student plan, love Notion!

Do sometimes get lost and wonder if I'm doing things in the most optimal way though, it's so powerful.

Re: Notion for everyone

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Post by arkitaip »

tommoor wrote: post #66
brainzap wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss Trello: add task, edit, save.

Trello… still exists?

Only on HN can people question the existence of an app which has 50M users. Trello might not be this month's flavor but I'll be damned if it's not one of the most useful planning tools out there.
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