What do you like best about the product?

I am a business professional and I've tried every single app out there. I have to say, Notion is the best. It's easy to use, has all the features one needs and it looks great too! The best part is that it integrates with my other apps seamlessly, so I don't need to switch between different platforms when I work on a project.

Some specific features i like the most

- Dark Theme
- Quick Search
- Easy accessibility to all the features and tools with shortcuts
- Easy & beautiful layout
- All-in-one workspace

What do you dislike about the product?

Although it comes with many useful features, there is always room for improvement Notion is not easy to setup and does have a learning curve. However, once you get it set up, it has the potential for some really powerful features.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used to use different apps for things like to-do lists. But now, I don't need to switch between different programs and the entire project is right there in one place. As a result, it's easy to monitor everything and keep my priorities straight.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I've tried a number of different planning organization tools, but Notion is the best one. I'm able to customize it in any way I want and it's really easy to use. The other apps feel like they're too rigid and don't offer enough customization options. Notion is my favorite app!

What do you like best about the product?

I like how Notion is flexible and code-able. You can tailor a page to fit whatever you can visualize - adjusting blocks, embedding links and media, formulas, etc. Everything is here - you can have word document, a database (sheet), a presentation, a CRM, sales tracker, literally anything you can think of, you can build it within notion. No need to switch between different apps/software.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't like how you can't copy-and-paste paragraphs from other websites into notion 'cause it separates each line as a block. Prevents me from migrating documents efficiently.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem of having to switch between lots of software/apps for managing a project. No more using google docs, google sheets, google slides etc. You can do everything in one workspace where anyone can collaborate and comment. The updates on the top left corner helps the most.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Takes a few weeks to get used to but you'll love it

What do you like best about the product?

Notion is a very powerful tool for building a wiki or knowledge base for your company. Apart from this Notion's powerful database and views can be used to create a small operating system for your company. We started using Notion for both the first and second uses in our small all-remote startup.

What do you dislike about the product?

Notion could be expensive if you are a small startup. We got credits from Notion as an early-stage startup and onboarded all of our users. Soon, we realised that only a few users actually create content and the others are mostly consuming the content and making light edits. As a small startup it did not make sense for us to continue paying a monthly fee for each user. There is no plan which allows you to have different types of licenses for document creators and others who make light edits.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used Notion primarily as a knowledge base at our all-remote early-stage startup. As an early-stage startup having a knowledge base where our colleagues can write short/long form documents is crucial to our way of working which is async in nature.

What do you like best about the product?

- Simplified interface
- Best UI&UX
- Simple and clean note-taking
- Database with multiple customized views
- Available as a Mac app
- Easy public sharing
- Hassle-free collaboration

What do you dislike about the product?

Tough Notion fits all my expectations, but I feel that some of the features should be updated:

- Limited fonts
- No adjustment for font size
- No option for CSV import

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Notion helps me with several things from daily activities to business operations. It's an all-in-one app that saves me time and money.
- It helps me with note-taking
- Creating a content calendar
- Project management
- Planning and organizing

Recommendations to others considering the product:

It's the best app for all purposes be it study, freelancing, business, or even just to-do lists. It's a great have. You can start it for free and upgrade and downgrade anytime you want.

What do you like best about the product?

As someone who practically lives in Notion, the recent stuff has been less about minor tweaks and more about genuine game-changers. I feel like they finally hit the accelerator on making it a true all-in-one workspace, especially with how they're handling AI.

Here are the new things that I'm personally loving:

The Agent: It's Not Just AI Chat, It's an AI Teammate
The biggest shift is the move from "Notion AI" being a fancy text generator to what they call a Notion Agent. Seriously, it's like hiring a power-user intern for your workspace.

Deep Context is Key: It doesn't just read the page you're on. Now, I can ask it, "Summarize the last two meetings I had with the design team and pull out all the action items assigned to me," and it'll search my calendar, meeting notes database, and even Slack messages (if connected) to give me a concise answer with citations. No more copy-pasting info just to prompt an AI.

Database Automation: My project tracker is finally a dream. I can tell the Agent to look at my raw customer feedback notes, automatically tag them with properties like 'Feature Request,' 'Bug Report,' and 'Priority: Medium,' and summarize the sentiment—all without me touching a single cell.

Notion Calendar is a Real Calendar Now
I used to keep my calendar separate because the integration was clunky. Not anymore.

The Meetings Tab: This new tab in the sidebar is genius. It syncs with my calendar and auto-creates a structured note for every meeting. No more scrambling to make a new page five minutes before a call. I just type /meet on any page, hit start, and the notes are perfectly filed away.

Calendar Searchable by Agent: I mentioned this above, but it's worth its own bullet point. I can ask the Agent, "When did I last meet with Sarah and what did we discuss about the budget?" The fact that it can search my calendar and past meeting notes together is a huge time-saver.

New Database Views
The database is the heart of Notion, and they keep making it more versatile.

Map View and Place Property: I'm a travel fanatic, and this is a gift. I can now add a Place property to my itinerary database, and it instantly shows all the locations on an actual map view. This is amazing for trip planning, or for a business tracking office locations or client sites.

Conditional Coloring with Formulas: This is a power-user feature, but I love it. I can now use formulas to set the background color of a row. For instance, my tasks turn bright red if the due date is today and the status isn't 'In Progress,' making those urgent items impossible to miss.

Basically, Notion used to be an incredible toolkit, but you had to build everything yourself. Now, the new AI and integration features feel like they are building things for you, which shifts the focus back to doing the work, not just setting up the workspace.

What do you dislike about the product?

Where Notion Needs a Serious Upgrade
Honestly, for how much I use and love Notion, the complaints boil down to three things. They've fixed a lot of the initial "steep learning curve" stuff with good templates and the AI Agent, but now the issues are more about core performance and missing power features.

1. Performance & The Mobile App (The Lag is Real)
This is the number one complaint. When your workspace gets big—hundreds of pages and complex databases—it starts to feel sluggish.

The Wait: Page load times, especially for complex dashboards with lots of linked databases, can still be painfully slow. It feels like the entire web-app structure is struggling to keep up with the complexity it allows.

Mobile is a Chore: The mobile app, despite improvements, still feels like a slow web-wrapper. Trying to quickly check a to-do list or jot a note on the go often involves a noticeable load time, which defeats the purpose of an "on-the-spot" capture tool.

2. Automation & Database Logic Gaps
They've come so far with the new Formulas and Automations, but there are still glaring holes that make workarounds necessary for power users.

Conditional Relations: I still can't build a simple automation like: "When I complete a task, automatically link it to the 'Weekly Review' page that has the most recent date." The automation logic isn't smart enough to handle conditional linking or complex filtering like Formulas can.

True Recurring Tasks: It's 2025 and setting up a simple recurring task (e.g., "Pay Rent on the 1st of every month") still requires a custom database template, an automation, and a lot of steps. It should be a native checkbox option.

3. Export & Data Ownership
Notion is a great digital brain, but what if you need the data outside of it?

PDF/Print Formatting: Exporting a page to a PDF for printing or sharing often breaks the layout. Complex columns, tables, and images get scrambled. There's no good way to add page breaks or control the formatting.

Proprietary Data: If you ever wanted to leave Notion (god forbid), getting your data out is clunky. You get a mass of HTML, CSV, and markdown files that require a lot of manual cleanup to import into a competitor. It's not a truly open standard like pure markdown would be, which always leaves me with a slight data-lock-in anxiety.

The short version: Notion is amazing at giving you a powerful, flexible canvas. Now, they need to focus on making that canvas load instantly and adding the finishing touches to its automations so you can stop being a workspace architect and just be a productive user.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was using OneNote from Microsoft to record every important information and keep data handy but when I saw the notion. I switched to notion immediately and maintained all my data on the notion.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

yes, I recommend everyone to use notion, it's not just a page full of information but it's a space for everything.

What do you like best about the product?

The cool new AI features are fun. Some of the features and abilities of Notion were hard to grasp, and the AI tool makes it super easy to understand.

What do you dislike about the product?

I think the "onboarding" to Notion could be better, like showing people what they can do.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's really helping me with tracking everything that I have to do across teams, including individual actions. Entering things that I have to do only takes seconds, so I can easily input everything, including small things like responding to an email. I have only used this as an individual, so my team hasn't experienced direct benefits besides my own performance.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I'd also look into other project management options for teams.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that it's a very good-looking app. Unlike traditional tools (such as MS Word) where you constantly think about formatting and stuff, it takes zero effort for me to take notes in any shape or form and still have a sleek document. I can clip webpages, put gifs, videos, emojis, add photos of my pen and paper drawings, anything... And whatever I do, my document never looks like a mess.

You can also create a knowledge base that is very easy to navigate for others, thanks to the subpage functionality and linking/referencing pages.

What do you dislike about the product?

Well, Notion works for most of my needs. I'm mostly using Notion for notetaking and creating knowledge base/documentation for software and my team. I know that Notion have lots of other features that I don't use that often. And I know that some users feel frustrated when they try to use Notion in a certain way that suits their use cases. Although most people hate using too many different tools, I don't think there is or there will be a single app that could do everything (from notetaking to project management) elegantly.

Also, I hate that my colleagues don't use Notion as much as I do.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Notion helps me to create a body of knowledge consisting of many different documents that are referencing each other. I am a business analyst and my job is to communicate complex things in a neat and well-organized way. Notion helps me present my work in a very welcoming way. I can communicate design documents with software developers and architects. Business units and managers can easily surf through the documents without feeling lost or overwhelmed just like browsing a website.

In contrast to the traditional way, where documents are dumped into a file server and most people never even dare to have a look at them (hence information becoming lost), Notion allows me to deliver crucial information efficiently and come to a shared understanding.

What do you like best about the product?

I absolutely love the fact that I can customize anything I want and use formulas to build my own self-calculating systems for productivity (and time-management). Notion is designed in such a way as to allow an almost infinite amount of possibilities for its use. I have severe ADHD and Notion in combination with medicine has helped me TREMENDOUSLY in organizing my life and staying on top of things. It's basically my second brain, which is something that only Notion has allowed me to do and I have tried numerous other apps like it. The fact that it's well connected to the cloud and anything I type on either my PC or phone is immediately accessible on either device is an underappreciated aspect of its performance (many other apps struggle with synchronization for some reason).

Also, there are numerous free (and paid) templates that one can use to start customizing their Notion or just use those templates as they are right out of the box.

In addition, as of writing this review, their free personal plan offers pretty much all of the features in the app, short of team-related stuff. It's mind-boggling to me that all of this is completely free and I hope they keep it free. Once I start hiring people for my business, I am definitely subscribing to the team plan, which is also very affordable, it seems.

What do you dislike about the product?

Honestly, there's not much I dislike about Notion, but there are things that need polishing. For instance, I would definitely love it if there was a way to automatically add items to relations (you can interconnect separate databases, but you can only add items to entries relations manually) and if they added a better way to use sums of columns in formulas, for example. It's the little things, but they still limit what I can do with Notion a bit. However, the app has very few weak spots, especially compared to its competitors. Most of them don't even come close, in terms of flexibility and robustness of functionality.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it mainly for task management, notes and organizing my day. I have a robust system, which makes it so easy to add tasks without much hassle and assign dates, priorities and other properties to them. In addition to that, I love that you can customize the layout as much as you want, so I have everything connected and right where I need it. Basically it serves as my second brain, I store in it all that comes into my head before it dissipates away and it has helped me slowly build the freelance business I love and to stay on top of things despite my ADHD.

I write a lot of copy and content in Notion, as well. You might be surprised, but Notion is also extremely useful for writing in general, you have very easily usable tools for breaking up and organizing your texts, such as bullet points, toggles (so that it doesn't take up the whole page until you need it), you can put pictures in, embed links and videos and so much more. It's amazing for writers as well, is what I'm saying, essentially.

What do you like best about the product?

Flexibility
New updates
sharing function

What do you dislike about the product?

Lack of some table features like spreadsheets

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Centralized content and department task management

What do you like best about the product?

New AI features made the tool more convenient

What do you dislike about the product?

Templates may be complicated so it can be more user friendly

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have implemented my daily report in notion, I can easily add links and notes, Also, when I learn something about work or special life, I took notes on Notion and then come back to check my notes