“I am on the free plan, and the few times I used Notion AI I found it surprisingly useful. However I am already paying for ChatGPT and Claude so I can't afford to pay for any additional AI.”
“Depending on your needs I can recommend Craft! It’s definitely not as deep as Notion when I comes to databases and automations and stuff but it does everything I needed Notion for, is really affordable if you sub during a sale and I find the UI really pleasant.”
“Literally stays so out of your way. I’ve just gotten back into notion after exploring other stuff and started using it again just like I had like summer lol some ppl be complaining to complain”
“You could check out some open source alternatives. They're typically pretty good about giving the user the choice of using AI, if they even offer any AI functionality at all. Thinking of AppFlowy, maybe NotesNook.”
“I love Notion but all this AI and team collaborating features are killing me. I just want a simple and versatile note taking app, just as Notion has been always.”
“Since Outlook calendar sync won't automatically map attendees to properties in Notion databases, we ended up setting up a lightweight Make/n8n automation triggered by new Outlook events to populate those properties automatically. Saves a ton of manual cleanup”
“Massive game changer in Notion. The way they’ve implemented skills is pretty great. The organization and management of them, being able to make them automatic for users and agents, is well done.”
“Notion AI is thinner than what you've already built with Cowork pulling from your workspace directly. Paying for both is redundant unless Notion AI's inline editing inside pages actually saves you clicks Cowork can't replicate, worth testing before committing to another subscription?”
“If Cowork already reads and writes the parts of Notion you use, I wouldn't pay for Notion AI just to duplicate that. The useful difference would have to be something native, like searching across the workspace with better context or doing database work Cowork can't handle.”
“Notion is cooked. Claude quietly launched interactive docs. Tables, adding collaborators, charts, etc. Not sure why people would keep paying extra for Notion AI.”
“And adoption does take time too, and if your previous work isn't migrated, the workspace lacks structure, or Notion is extra instead of primary, the team may have some resistance.”
“That's almost always a Notion automation or a dsomething set a recurring trigger at some point (even a template you installed might've had one baked in) and it just keeps firing.”
“You click a single button, and Notion creates a new project, generates the associated instructions and tasks, assigns them to team members, and immediately displays everything on the Timeline.”
“J'ai testé ça l'année dernière et ça a été une catastrophe. Les relations entre les bases de données étaient complètement cassées. Notion a besoin de bosser sur leur fonction d'export/import, c'est hyper limite.”
“You already found the answer in your own post: the review is happening, just on trail walks instead of in Notion. So it isn't really a discipline problem — you're trying to schedule thinking that already happens on its own.”
“What I can't figure out is whether this is a Notion problem or just a discipline problem dressed up as a Notion problem. Because redesigning the system is way more fun than sitting down and filling it out, and I've probably used that as an excuse more than once.”
“Notion doesn’t have an exclude/ignore list for global search. For sensitive material the hard boundary is a separate workspace/account; for ordinary noise, a database with filtered linked views is usually cleaner than relying on global search.”
“If you are a small business who basically runs out of Notion and was using Notion AI your costs extrapolated so much that Clade x20 pro became actually viable. For $200 of Notion credits (which do burn at a ridiculous rate) you can get nearly all you could ever meet; have even better control of the custom agent and just hammer the Notion MCP for $20 a month.”
“Can a side bar be shared between team members? I’m trying to implement this into my businesses, we have hover a hundred collaborators and majority of work is managed through Notion. I’ve been trying to find out if there is an option to sync the sidebar to all team members.”
“Notion is great for organizing tasks but it's not a timer app. you're better off using a dedicated Pomodoro app like Focus Keeper or PomoFocus and just keeping Notion open for your tasks. trying to cram everything into one platform is just gonna slow you down.”
“It took me a weekend to clean everything up, but now opening Notion feels calm instead of overwhelming. If anyone else has a messy workspace, I would say start with one dashboard and slowly move things into it instead of trying to fix everything at once.”