Notion
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Great Tool, Good AI Integration, Looking Forward To Improvements
What do you like best about the product?
I love the flexibility. I use it to capture ideas. I use to keep work with multiple types of information (videos, audio files, images and text all in the same place). But, I also use it to manage processes (producing a class, recording the class, publishing the class to various places).
What do you dislike about the product?
This is probably not a problem specific to Notion, but probably something caused by how I use it, but sometimes Notion is a little slow because I try to do too much with a single page.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Notion for a variety of things... everything from taking notes and capturing ideas to managing complex projects to creating parts of the project's content. I also use it as a knowledge base to keep ideas organized and at hand.
Notion is my favorite planning and writing tool!
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoy using notion to organize many aspects of my life and to assist my writings in work or in daily life.
At first Notion is only a place for me to write notes or a to-do list like any other productivity apps. However, the more I explore the more I found out and loved about the customizability of Notion. With the help of databases, I am able to create plans for my work or life in many different ways. Either a calendar view or a board view, will help me a lot on prioritizing tasks and allocate them onto appropriate time slot.
Highly recommend for people looking for good planning tools, as well as writing notes.
At first Notion is only a place for me to write notes or a to-do list like any other productivity apps. However, the more I explore the more I found out and loved about the customizability of Notion. With the help of databases, I am able to create plans for my work or life in many different ways. Either a calendar view or a board view, will help me a lot on prioritizing tasks and allocate them onto appropriate time slot.
Highly recommend for people looking for good planning tools, as well as writing notes.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside of using Notion is that everything has to be online for me to load pages. I understand why this is the case, as Notion has operating on AWS, and your data across platforms are synced. However, even with stable internet connection, it tooks a bit of loading to see your content. Even if it's a simple todo list. It isn't a very pleasant experience when the internet is unstable. And I would switch to other handy notebooks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves the problem that most task management apps are not customizable enough. With Notion I am able to build many of my own ideas and I am able to tweak the design according to my need
Notion has been a game-changer for my team, and AI takes it over the top.
What do you like best about the product?
I've loved how easy it is to use and to integrate other apps, and it has been a wonderful for us to share documentation cross-functionally. I've used the AI function to help guide some of my initial documentation, and that's been great too.
What do you dislike about the product?
I often find myself wishing it was easier to back-indent, but that's about it! I don't find much I don't like, nor do I wish for other improvements. Keep up the good work, Notion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem it's solving for my team is to organize and share key documentation that is not only relevant for my team, but also for others. For example, we use it to share product requirements documents.
Very Intuitive App
What do you like best about the product?
The unlimited databases I can create with Notion. I love how I can be as creative with my organization and customize it to my preference and style! I truly appreciate that it's free for personal use and we still have the option to upgrade it to really utilize all of its features.
What do you dislike about the product?
I honestly don't have anything wrong to say about Notion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion is helping me with organizing all of my thoughts as well as keeping log of my work progress. The apps intuitiveness have allowed me to be more productive and effective with my job.
I'm a fan of notion, but want to share some gripes
What do you like best about the product?
The custom blocks are extremely helpful. I love that I can add an inline database to pages and keep track of items with various types of fields.
What do you dislike about the product?
I want more support for visual content. The Miro integration is severely lacking. The fact that I have to click a miro board in order for it to load is a barrier to using it effectively. The charts, mindmaps, and other visual content integrations should be much richer. Is it possible to prefetch these resources and/or cache them so it's ready to view and edit when I open the page?
For the databases, I don't like that there is a single column that is not deletable. This can be done better, and often times I don't want to have the default column visable.
Also, the AI feature is limited but has potential. I will expand on that in the specific section.
For the databases, I don't like that there is a single column that is not deletable. This can be done better, and often times I don't want to have the default column visable.
Also, the AI feature is limited but has potential. I will expand on that in the specific section.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has a certain i-don't-know-what, but is far better than alternatives. I think it comes down to the much richer types of content blocks on offer. I don't like how the layout is limited to single-column though; I wish there were alternative layouts or something more flexible.
AI Features
The AI feature is not headed in the right direction. I purchased it almost as soon as it was available. I like the user experience, as in being able to query the assistant about selected text or about the document in general. I think it should be clearer that you can use it to generate notion blocks, instead of just plain text. I also don't like how it discourages users from asking it off-topic questions, that really hurts my workflow. I don't use it as a writing assistant, but more as a research assistant to fact-check my writing, look up similar content, and generate notes when I'm having trouble learning something. Also, there are many times when mathematical expressions are generated. It would be amazing if these were automatically inserted as KaTeX-formatted expressions.
The assistant REALLY shouldn't be refusing to answer questions when it doesn't see a connection to the document. This limits the utility and increases friction for an otherwise useful feature. I don't want to always force it to generate useful content for me by saying "do it anyway."
If you want to reach out to me for a customer development interview, I would love to try and schedule something. I've been a champion to friends and coworkers for notion for almost 4 years now and would love to help make it a better product for others.
Other Problems
It's really annoying that my place in the document isn't persisted, especially on mobile. I have long lists of book notes, and will have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page each time I open it in order to continue adding notes. This is a really annoying anti-feature and would love for it to be fixed.
AI Features
The AI feature is not headed in the right direction. I purchased it almost as soon as it was available. I like the user experience, as in being able to query the assistant about selected text or about the document in general. I think it should be clearer that you can use it to generate notion blocks, instead of just plain text. I also don't like how it discourages users from asking it off-topic questions, that really hurts my workflow. I don't use it as a writing assistant, but more as a research assistant to fact-check my writing, look up similar content, and generate notes when I'm having trouble learning something. Also, there are many times when mathematical expressions are generated. It would be amazing if these were automatically inserted as KaTeX-formatted expressions.
The assistant REALLY shouldn't be refusing to answer questions when it doesn't see a connection to the document. This limits the utility and increases friction for an otherwise useful feature. I don't want to always force it to generate useful content for me by saying "do it anyway."
If you want to reach out to me for a customer development interview, I would love to try and schedule something. I've been a champion to friends and coworkers for notion for almost 4 years now and would love to help make it a better product for others.
Other Problems
It's really annoying that my place in the document isn't persisted, especially on mobile. I have long lists of book notes, and will have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page each time I open it in order to continue adding notes. This is a really annoying anti-feature and would love for it to be fixed.
Notion is a life-changing software.
What do you like best about the product?
To optimize is to customize. By being able to custom-build databases, managing projects becomes attainable and is more streamlined than other project management softwares.
What do you dislike about the product?
Notion has a relatively long onboarding process for others to become fully capable of using the software. However, using notion is very intuitive and with practice becomes competency.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion solves organization by removing a fixed file structure. Being able to link databases and pages together makes much more sense ergonomically than requiring solely files within folders.
Amazing
What do you like best about the product?
Notion is the 💣
Although I use other tools for thought, Notion and Roam Research are my day to day 👌
Notion's database functionality, super clean UI and AI is amazing.
Although I use other tools for thought, Notion and Roam Research are my day to day 👌
Notion's database functionality, super clean UI and AI is amazing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Roam has a bunch of independent developers making extensions for it which mean it's very powerful for pulling data in from other platforms via API. For example, changing my daily Google calendar entries into TODOs in a daily notes page is one of the main reasons I'm not exclusively using Notion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion nearly solves the problem of the "all data and information in one space" system that those of us who understand the concept of tools for thought and knowledge work have wanted (and seen as a possibility) for well over a decade.
The new AI functionality means I can type completely in the flow without having to stop to think about whether or what I'm writing will make sense to read back. It shortens the gap between getting things out of my brain and onto page, then simply right-clicking in Notion and using AI to correct means that I can maintain flow and it make sense without me having to self-edit.
The new AI functionality means I can type completely in the flow without having to stop to think about whether or what I'm writing will make sense to read back. It shortens the gap between getting things out of my brain and onto page, then simply right-clicking in Notion and using AI to correct means that I can maintain flow and it make sense without me having to self-edit.
Would highly recommend this to any student
What do you like best about the product?
How easy to use it is and how many great features it has. I've already recommended it to a lot of friends and since being introduced to it I feel like my studying has improved and my personal life has become much easier to organise and keep track of. Everything is in one place, it's great!
What do you dislike about the product?
I couldn't find the 'Help' feature, even after downloading the Notion app on my laptop which is what it recommended to do on the website, however I still did not find it. So I've had to email Notion instead which is a bit annoying.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making my work faster and things like sending professional emails easier. Also checking my work for grammar mistakes.
Easy to use, navigate, and create with
What do you like best about the product?
I like how customizable the notion is for what I need, whether for school, work, or personal needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's been really slow and glitchy lately
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion has helped me improve my written tone and fix small grammatical issues. It has also increased my time management and productivity.
Use notion almost daily for work and personal things.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use.
Organization.
Customization.
Sharability.
Organization.
Customization.
Sharability.
What do you dislike about the product?
Jumping between accounts (personal / work) feels like it could be simpler somehow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For work it's used as a knowledge base for everything our company does, from Engineering sprint documentation to travel policy information. One source of truth for almost everything.
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