“Now with AI I rebuild my timetracking tool to notion with connection to my calendar, for our summer fest I did a quickbooks clone basically and so much more.”
“Whenever I want to paste texts at where my cursor is at, for example in the middle of a paragraph, the text will always end up being pasted as another block below my paragraph. I've searched around but I don't see anyone facing this issue as well?”
“Saw a guy build a full CRM with automated follow-up sequences and a dashboard that pulled live data from a few different sources, all inside Notion. It wasn't just pages with databases, it had actual logic baked in with buttons and conditions. Made me realize most people barely scratch what the tool can do”
“Al final es complicado, yo al menos lo que haría seria exportar los contenidos de tu cuenta principal a al menos otras dos cuentas diferentes, pero seguimos estando en que si Notion cae o muere, nos quedamos sin contenido por lo tanto nunca seremos dueños de nuestros datos ni sistemas que ahí montemos…”
“I keep stumbling across really cool things people build with Notion, and it always makes me wonder what’s the ceiling here? Like, how far can you really push this tool? Can anyone share something that looks absolutely mind-blowing or impressive at first sight?”
“It's in a proprietary format on proprietary servers. You could always try to convert downloaded copies to Markdown, but tbh if you're worried about data retention and aren't married to specific features in Notion I might just use Obsidian if I were you.”
“There have been too many stories of Notion admins locking data up, preventing users from accessing it. I use notion but I'm not wedded to it. If I lost all my notes tomorrow I'd find it inconvenient but not fatal.”
“Not safe, if you don't own the storage then it's not under your control. Notion provides an API which I used to download and make a back up of all data I had.”
“Can still be hacked. Also the data might be encrypted at rest, but not at client. You have to read the terms to know if Notion is using your data to train AI etc ...”
“If you have a large number of notes in Notion, the native export in Notion will fail. I have tried running the export on a smaller test set, and it works, but on a larger set of notes it always fails.”
“I do find it helps me find things, and keep track of notes for tasks, and organize those notes (even if it is just having one 'dumping' ground for them.”
“It was fine early on, but lately opening it feels like work. Nested pages I forget exist, templates I set up once and never touched, and it's gotten slow enough that I avoid it, which defeats the point.”
“Told Grok Bot to go through my Calendar for the last ten years, each meeting. And then each person whom I met add them on a database in Notion with their LinkedIn Profiles and”
“I’d skip the voice memo inbox entirely: dictate with the Notion page open, then clean it up there instead of moving a recording through three places. Since you mentioned privacy and Wispr’s recent bugs, I’ve settled on DictaFlow because it can run local models offline, with cloud models available when you want them.”
“When I was building my project I tested all the notion/coda type web apps. They all had their own dealbreakers, so it came down to which one was the least frustrating.”
“I use this for Google Calendar and Google task 2 way sync wt notion... Let's me put everything in one place, sucks for another subscription but to have it all in one place is priceless to me. And it's need because for Google Calendar it can make a link to a note so I can just pull up a calendar event on phone, tablet etc....”
“i ran into the same thing last year and ended up just abandoning google tasks entirely. moved everything into notion databases and never looked back. the extra step of syncing was more headache than it was worth for my workflow”
“My test would be pretty boring: open a real Notion page, dictate a two-minute note with names, bullets and one correction, then count how much editing is left. Repeat the same test with each tool.”
“notion's meeting notes are still pretty early compared to dedicated tools. I simply keep notion as the doc layer and run the capture elsewhere. meetgeek does speaker labels per participant and pushes the summary + transcript into a notion database after the call, and so do fireflies and a few other alternatives.”
“I have Notion actual feeding Notion Cal for home projects which I can turn on and off in Notion Cal but which doesn’t interfere with iCal when I’m at work.”
“Who has integrated a daily voice recorder (like Pocket / Plaud) into their daily life and used it to feed into Notion? Or through ChatGPT/Claude into Notion, as a way to keep a better track and memory of their day to day lives… and keep them on task for their activities/tasks/life goals and outcomes?”
“I still love Notion but I use it exclusively for work. But for my personal life I don’t need nested pages & databases with 6 views to write “pick up eggs” lol.”
“god notion's relation fields are so half-baked it hurts. i ran into the exact same sorting nightmare last month and just sat there staring at my screen wondering how this got past QA”
“I think theres ways to export databases as csv files but as a new notion user im curious as to how others back up their data? Also not sure what happens to relations after exporting”