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Notion Review
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it is to create and design your own schedules and planner. It has better features than most websites that has similar intentions to Notion. It also has an easy platform to share each others design and notion workshops to friends/family.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features are a bit complicating to place. For example (when I drag some blocks to the side to create different columns, it would stick to a place I did not envision)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It sorts out my time schedule to better envision it as I am more focused when I view it visually and when in practical use. AI also allows me to see my reports in a different view point as to how I would normally write it out.
Notion provides a great, customizable workspace that is further improved by the integration of AI.
What do you like best about the product?
The best aspect of Notion now is its integration of AI. Being able to work on a document of my own, use AI assistance, and edit the output as I please is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
Of course, implementation of AI on Notion is in its beginnings, so there are some minor issues in terms of the nature of the AI. The following issues may just come down to the vendor, but the AI responses appear very rigid, even after prompts requesting for specific replies (such as taking a more conversational tone or being concise). Additionally, I would prefer if I could toggle whether my prompt is saved to the document; this would make documents that use AI easier to navigate. My current workaround is copying my prompt before submitting it and pasting it over the response, which is manageable but takes away from creative flow at times. I understand there is a history of previous prompts when typing a prompt in a well-used document, but I think keeping the prompt saved statically as an option would help me a lot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One significant problem Notion has solved for me is my issue with brainstorming. It's much easier to write ideas on a document and get a response immediately rather than writing something and having to think about it alone. Additionally, I find it better than speaking with another person, as the importance for me isn't about critique but instead generating an outline without getting bogged down with details. Additionally, when working on definition-based assignments, the knowledge base of Notion's AI helped me form simple definitions of terms; this helped me more than going online and searching each term to find rather obtuse definitions.
Need to expand accuracy
What do you like best about the product?
We can use our notes for analysis, and that helps. It could also be linked to multiple places, making it more helpful than other Ai. It could also provide in-text citations based on the notes, which is a plus.
What do you dislike about the product?
It assumes that it could not be linked to other functions of notion that easily like the to-do list function of notion is not linked, and that's a bit assumed for a platform with multiple functions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It can help categorise multiple pages simultaneously, making it extremely convenient compared to other ai in the market. It could also help extend already existing notes into sub notes which is nice
AI creates content which is so helpful. If only it could do that with large-ish PDFs
What do you like best about the product?
As a student, AI allows me to create summaries of content and also multiple choice questions- this is a huge deal since revision requires testing, which requires content generation. AI can generate smart/correct content to help me learn medicine
What do you dislike about the product?
BUT. The content has to be in Notion format. It can't be PDF, which is how my notes come. So I you have to spend your time importing that pdf into notion markdown text, which takes time.
Don't make a teamspace to share the work for this conversion task- it charges YOU to add members to a teamspace (I'm up for USD$60 with no warning).
A huge issue are ChatGPT inherent limitations- using AI to clean up formatting of imported text just doesn't work if your notes are long. It randomly stops and then you spend time figuring out where it stopped.
In conclusion- if Notion allowed AI to access PDF (or easily imported PDF), then allowed large chunks of text to be formatted, I'd pay all my money to use it.
(As it stands, it has cost me nearly $100 to not do that, so I'm on the fence)
Don't make a teamspace to share the work for this conversion task- it charges YOU to add members to a teamspace (I'm up for USD$60 with no warning).
A huge issue are ChatGPT inherent limitations- using AI to clean up formatting of imported text just doesn't work if your notes are long. It randomly stops and then you spend time figuring out where it stopped.
In conclusion- if Notion allowed AI to access PDF (or easily imported PDF), then allowed large chunks of text to be formatted, I'd pay all my money to use it.
(As it stands, it has cost me nearly $100 to not do that, so I'm on the fence)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating content to confirm knowledge of topics.
Notion AI allows me to summarise large blocks of complex topics pertaining to medical field including haematology and neurology.
IF ONLY IT COULD IMPORT PDFS FOR AI
Notion AI allows me to summarise large blocks of complex topics pertaining to medical field including haematology and neurology.
IF ONLY IT COULD IMPORT PDFS FOR AI
Great to use, I've been using it for everything from work to personal
What do you like best about the product?
With the ease of use and a low learning curve, the availability and ingenuity of tools for the app are exactly what a user such as myself needs. It is incredible considering how young this company is. It really knows how to cater to people's creativity and industriousness to help a person organise their thoughts and lives in a fun and intelligible way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wish I could be able to plug ins with some microsoft 365 apps
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping me become increadibly organised in a way that suits my working style, it's something that I use on a daily basis. My life is far simpler whilst using notion
Great integrated note-taking and planning platform
What do you like best about the product?
I like the pages and subpages, the quick actions, the icons for the pages. I really like the integrated AI.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a large learning curve in using Notion for the first time with the quick actions, even if in the long run they do help. I don't like that you can't set your own colours, only use the basic ones that notion has included. It's very annoying that the billing is in $ and there appears to be no way to change this, as someone who lives in the UK.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I really like the AI - I don't think it's as good as ChatGPT though and that service is free. I've had some error codes with it where I haven't been able to use it for a significant time. I'm writing a book, and it really helps with brainstorming ideas or namees. It can be a bit slow at times, and a bit literal. I've had some problems where if I ask it to do the same thing on the same page but for different selected text, it includes the pervious answers it gave too (even when I specify not to). It's also very expensive for what it is, and I don't like that it's charged separately from plans. $10 a month for just AI is a lot, plus plan fees on top. And I also don't like that with how expensive it is, it appears to be workspace-specific. What if I want a personal workspace, a workspace for a project, etc, and I'd like to use AI on all of them?
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What do you like best about the product?
Nice and easy to get to grips with the way of writing on Notion. The AI is fantastic but could be better now with GPT-4 being released.
What do you dislike about the product?
Selecting text on mobile is a pain, quite annoying to copy and paste from the notion app elsewhere as it only allows you to select each text block individually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helping me to quickly learn some new things by condensing the information nicely. It also helps to turn my ideas into text.
Fairly helpful
What do you like best about the product?
Notion is a platform that allows the user to create the perfect productivity system for them. The customisation and flexibility really separate notion from other note taking apps.
What do you dislike about the product?
Notion can occasionally feel clunky to use, for example i recently tried to implement a to do list using the database function. while the to do list worked, i had to wait forthe page to load, then the database, then i had to add a new entry. i stopped trying to use notion for this and switched to todoist.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion's AI assistant is helping me be significantly more productive in my place if work thanks to its ability to read a large email on a page and summarise the goals that the sender would like me to achieve.
Notion = next level note-taking
What do you like best about the product?
Extremely easy to use. Can start with very basic features, just writing notes and gradually learn the system through use. The advanced features linked to keyboard shortcuts are great. Toggles and databases are my two most used advanced features.
What do you dislike about the product?
The databases are great, but a little clunky compared to using google sheets or excel for more data driven applications. It is so easy in excel/sheets to write formulae, whereas in notion it requires a lot more effort.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use notion in various ways. As a personal wiki, collating key information. As a research tool, extremely easy to store information in various formats (PDF etc). The recently introduced AI feature is unbelievable.
Used Notion for a number of years, keeps getting better
What do you like best about the product?
I've been using it for several years, and am currently using it to make notes for my college courses. It is very versatile and works for all my courses -- for Mathematics, the option for LaTeX equations is invaluable to me. Same for Physics, which I use the inline equation option all the time. I also like how easy it is to format tables and dictionaries, and the option to add as an emoji as a page icon is nice too. Additionally, I have used the Gantt chart to plan out projects, which worked well and is nice and intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
One downside I can think of is that the desktop app for Windows seems to launch and run a bit slower than other apps, and seems to use more resources than it should.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been using the AI writer regularly, most commonly to summarise my notes. I particularly like how aware it is about page titles and content, and adds extra context beyond what I have noted down. The AI is also very good at rewriting explanations I have written to make them clearer. I have also used it for writing fun poems, which it is quite good at.
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