Notion
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Powerful,
What do you like best about the product?
I really like Notion's flexibility. Notes can have many different types of content including text, PDFs, links, photos, and videos. You can connect to more than 20 apps like Google Drive, GitHub, Slack, Dropbox and even Zoom. I'm not very familiar with databases, but using them in Notion is very intuitive and almost addictive. I keep finding more ways tomake my life simpler every time I use them.
What do you dislike about the product?
Creating a task list is not easy. It's simple to add a due date to any note or database. But it's just not possible to create a standalone list of tasks due for a specific date or topic from all of your notes and databases. Yes, you can see a list if you go to the main menu and select Updates > Inbox. But you cannot embed a customized version of this list on any of your pages. Frustrating.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's making it easier to find and reuse processes that I've created. The search function is very good. I spend less time looking for information that I know I have and more time creating with it.
Great note taking software, mostly correctly executed with some room for improvement
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to enter text and data into. Great shortcuts for various tasks. Great for inserting, embedding images and files. App lets me capture handwritten notes easily and bin into an inbox which I can then go back to my computer to re-organize. Table and database very customizable. Served as my notetaking and notebook entry for the most parts. Overall, I prefer it over OneNote and EverNote. Probably one of the best if not the best notetaking app out there.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to built in more general-user intuition rather than Notion-specific quirks. For example, if I move cursor before some text, then enter the shortcut for heading, instead of creating heading before the initial text, it creates heading after (?!#). Also, table and database entry table needs to be more Excel-like (sorry guys, 99% of us were used to Excel before Notion came along) - do not try to re-invent cell entry beyond Excel based on your own (programmer's) idiosyncratic habits. If I move to cell and start to type, overwrite the original text (that's what Excel does, if I want to append, I will click within it); selecting cells is much harder than Excel - again, don't try to re-invent table cell entry. Template creation is also not the most intuitive and took some time to get the hang of it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Customizable timeline display over just note taking.
Great tool
What do you like best about the product?
There's tons of flexibility in how you take notes...tasks in databases, make templates for one on one notes, link between topics, etc. Really enjoy how it helps me to think through topics.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a blank slate. There are preconfigured templates you can pick from to help get you started, but you need to have an idea about what you want to achieve as you go into it and how your topics fit together; otherwise, you don't take advantage of all it has to offer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was able to have one tool that let me take basic notes, but also use project/topic templates, and still bring all the information together centrally.
Generally Amazing, with improvements to be made
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that I can organise my thoughts and ideas in an organized and intuitive way. For work, it has been immensely helpful since I am generally messy. Also, for planning things and making graphs, the different integrations with a lot of apps makes it simple to create a centralised ecosystem, which I highly appreciate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lags, definitely. The response time is often longer than I would like it. Also, the fact that time (days, hours, minutes, seconds) hasn't yet been added as database value: it would help tremendously to create a time budget. Also the fact Google Agenda hasn't yet been integrated into Notion, and I'm not the first one to say this. Unless, of course, the Notion team makes the built-in Notion calendar on par with Google Agenda.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mind mapping, ideas think-tank, synchronizing work within a team. It's a ridiculously powerful app also for budgeting matters, as well as building frameworks, among other things.
Overall a great product, with exceptional flexibility. It's easy though to get yourself in trouble.
What do you like best about the product?
As a platform, Notion has a relatively easy new user experience and is extremely extensible, with many options for customization and opportunities to record, relate and display data.
What do you dislike about the product?
As the API was only rolled out in May 2021 there is a limited number of good, useful integrations that are available. The other major pain point for us is the lack of user roles, there are only two "Workspace Owner", and "Member." And while there are options available at the teamspace/page level for "guests" it would be extremely helpful to have more options available for those internal to the workspace.
(A more minor current annoyance is that the platform doesn't always allow a user to select a template after the content of an existing page is cleared.)
(A more minor current annoyance is that the platform doesn't always allow a user to select a template after the content of an existing page is cleared.)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion is currently serving as our "one-stop shop" for almost all information in the business. It's our CRM, project management, team knowledgebase, SOP repository, and day-to-day task manager. Previous to utilizing Notion, we had many different systems that we were attempting to keep synchronized with all of this information and that was challenging. Now it's much easier to find needed information, stay on track, and provide better, more consistent support to our clients.
When it comes down to it, the question is what isn't Notion touching? :) Of course, the biggest challenge with it all being in one place is building/adapting the platform as we shift and grow. But even with that, short of custom-coding our own solution, Notion has been one of the best investments we've made for internal software.
When it comes down to it, the question is what isn't Notion touching? :) Of course, the biggest challenge with it all being in one place is building/adapting the platform as we shift and grow. But even with that, short of custom-coding our own solution, Notion has been one of the best investments we've made for internal software.
I love using Notion as our main project management and knowledge hub with my team
What do you like best about the product?
I like how you can connect everything together and link tasks with different teams in each dashboard. This makes it easy for each department to have its own space but management can have a bird-eye view of everything in their own space.
What do you dislike about the product?
I love all the new updates come out but as the tool gets more complicated it gets harder to onboard new people and get them to the same level of usage/knowledge as the rest of the team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Notion, we were using the G-suite Sheets heavily but there was no way to set reminders and filter the data easily. Notion streamlines this process and lets us connect each database to eachother.
Close to perfect intranet solution
What do you like best about the product?
Notion is a tool that is easy to use to everyone. From experienced tech geeks to "normal" people who just want they software to work. Great and flexible tool to build almost everything you need. From knowledge base to task tracker. You can manage your product hypotheses, development tasks, customer relations log and many-many more.
What do you dislike about the product?
Notion is a great tool to access static information, but it still very hard to follow updates and discuss pieces of data inside Notion. We still use Basecamp for check-ins and Slack for discussing our work. We know that greatness is achieved step by step, but many people in our team hope that updates feed and better comments are next growth points for Notion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Notion for almost everything. Business unit documentation, team updates, task management, employee database.
Notion are so much better than other tools we tried (including Atlassian Confluence). Not perfect. We still have to use other collaboration tools together with Notion. But it is definitely the central hub for our activities.
Notion are so much better than other tools we tried (including Atlassian Confluence). Not perfect. We still have to use other collaboration tools together with Notion. But it is definitely the central hub for our activities.
I believe Notion is a very effective project management tool for my small business
What do you like best about the product?
I like its look and feel. I love the use of unlimited databases and the ability to link them. I like the use of color and the ability to make pages look attractive.
What do you dislike about the product?
Definitely that it lacks a proper recurring task feature. The recurring template feature - a recent addition - falls very short of what I would expect from the most basic program. This is the only reason I can't give Notion a 10.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I run a client-based business - each client represents a project and each project has multiple tasks - but not necessarily the same tasks - that need to be performed in order. I find Notion databases to be an excellent method of keeping track of each stage, as well as being flexible enough to handle curveballs. I also love that I can connect project and actions databases as well as clients and client files - I use the status property religiously to track what I have to do tomorrow, this week, this month etc. I also have a separate area where I keep track of all my finances, taxes etc. and another where I keep track of workflows and can capture notes on anything new that crosses my path but I don't have time to process at the moment.
Notion is an incredibly versatile and customizable productivity tool
What do you like best about the product?
"Notion is an incredibly versatile and customizable productivity tool that has greatly improved my personal and professional organization. I love the flexibility to create and structure pages to fit my specific needs, whether it's tracking project tasks, managing personal goals, or taking notes for a meeting. The integration of databases and tables also makes it easy to keep track of information and collaborate with others in real-time. Notion's interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, and the ability to add comments, tags, and reminders is a helpful feature that keeps me on top of my to-do list. Overall, I highly recommend Notion for anyone looking to streamline their workflow and improve their organization."
What do you dislike about the product?
performance issues with large and complex pages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion is solving several problems for me and businesses, including:
Centralizing information: Notion allows users to bring together all of their notes, tasks, and documents in one place, making it easy to find and access important information quickly.
Streamlining collaboration: Notion's real-time collaboration features enable teams to work together on the same page, share ideas, and track progress, reducing the need for back-and-forth communication and simplifying project management.
Centralizing information: Notion allows users to bring together all of their notes, tasks, and documents in one place, making it easy to find and access important information quickly.
Streamlining collaboration: Notion's real-time collaboration features enable teams to work together on the same page, share ideas, and track progress, reducing the need for back-and-forth communication and simplifying project management.
Flexible hub
What do you like best about the product?
It's very easy and fluid to use. I love how modular it feels with its keystrokes and simple integration. I've had success using Notion as a "Source of Truth" with companies
What do you dislike about the product?
It's tough for the closed-minded to adopt. We found more junior employees would refuse to work with notion, whereas senior members of the team would be more willing to pick Notion up and uncover its value. Email onboarding was helpful for some, but I think more in-product help would be beneficial
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having a single source of truth (a "knowledge base") was the key reason to stand up a notion instance. Our company has a very easily accessible database of info across all teams that's now shared
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