“I use both and i think both of them solve different problems, see apple notes is for quick capture whereas notion is useful when your notes starts becoming systems,projects and databases.”
“worth checking whether you actually "duplicated" it into your workspace (Notion usually prompts this with a "Duplicate" button) vs. just having a bookmark/link to someone else's page.”
“When they launched, Notion mail was really a horrible experience, but over the last six months it became a lot better. It's a pity that it's going away. Is there another alternative that is just as minimalist?”
“I checked Notion, tried hard to make things the notion way, only to realise I work best in excel kind of format and it gives me the most satisfying experience.”
“Unfortunately I have yet to find a tool for my use case that's as good as notion, without AI as I am very much anti-AI. All of the "second brain" type apps are scrambling to stuff as much slop as possible into their products.”
“Honestly as a person who likes to tinker too much with systems that give me too much flexibility, Notion was a huge double edged sword for me. So I decided to just drop it and go back to simple notes on Obsidian.”
“Idk to me what it’s best at is being a hub. The notes I take on Apple notes, my Fathom zoom recordings, my blog posts and portfolio, my notes for work and personal all feed onto Notion or come from Notion.”
“the top comment nailed it about the load times tho everytime i open notion in my phone i age 5 years waiting for it. but for what you do the database feature is the killer app imagine linking your class notes to your project ideas to your actual code snippets all in one page without copy pasting links everywhere.”
“Because Notion Calendar makes their AI Notetaking functionality significantly more useful and increases adoption. As far as AI functionality, the notetaking is by far the most used and for many people the most useful feature.”
“Notion is so much better than just an excel spreadsheet (which is what I started with) - it's what brought me to Notion initially. I'm only about 60% done but know that maintaining it will be easier than the initial build and after each big round of updates, I make backup files since I am paranoid of losing my work.”
“Because Notion Calendar is actually a decent calendar app, while Notion Mail was a clunky mess that was noting more than a Gmail skin, but couldn’t even utilize some basic Gmail features like nested tabs.”
“Why is Notion keeping Notion Calendar by killing Notion Mail? it makes no sense to have just a notion-integrated calendar without notion-integrated mail.”
“I've been using Notion since before the AI feature, but I can still use it just as I would before. So I really don't understand where all the complaints are coming from.”
“I was thinking of maybe Notion and then Todoist because there are quite a few things they. both lack from each other so Id figure maybe they can compliment each other the problem is my ADHD is wicked.”
“I’m looking for some good free Notion templates for incoming college freshmen to help stay organized. I’m especially looking for something that can act as a one-stop college hub class schedules, class notes, assignments, deadlines, study plans, maybe a calendar, GPA tracking, etc.”
“Stop designing your productivity tool, start working on the task you need to do knowing that there’s a system you can rely on. Only start thinking of expanding your work when you need to..”
“**Instead of using the structure to express the idea, I had to force my idea into that architecture or expand the structure again.** When I realized the idea didn't fit, I expanded the database, adding new properties and pages, which overcomplicated the system.”
“I have never understood why people would use Notion for writing, but each to their own. My suggestion would be to do real writing elsewhere and link to it in Notion for the organisational part of it.”
“Yeah notion feels simple at first but the learning curve is really all in databases. The part that usually trips people up is how views, filters, and relations actually connect together once you move past just basic tables. After that it clicks and it becomes more about how you structure the system than how you enter the data”
“native notion cant dynamically revoke edit rights on a single page for the creator once it is submitted... the permission model is all or nothing on the database level.”
“That's why, for me, Notion is first and foremost a database tool where I store and organize everything related to text. For project management, email, calendar, etc., I use separate apps.”
“I started trying Notion a couple days ago almost by accident(Yt is the Hook 🤣), and it’s actually been way more useful than I expected. It feels much easier to keep all the account information together and find things later.”