What do you like best about the product?

Love how Notion allows us to organize our entire company knowledge, documentation, and planning in one place - easily and flexibly. We've also used Notion as our external knowledge base which we've loved! So easy to use!!! Keep it up Notion team!

What do you dislike about the product?

Can't think of anything! They are constantly one step ahead of things I don't realize I need...

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

Internal knowledge base, external knowledge base, to do lists, project management... the list goes on!

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Notion are the endless possibilities for organizing and how easy is to adapt it to your needs and your own style of planning. If you are new to Notion, I recommend you watch a tutorial covering the basics you are ready to go!

What do you dislike about the product?

The only thing I can say I don't like is that before start using it you should at least learn the basics so you don't feel lost and you can use Notion at full potential. If you are a person who just likes to use simple things and doesn't go over a process of learning, this might bother you. But all I can say is that the small process of learning the basics of Notion is worth it!

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

I handle an online store, design business and my personal life. Before Notion I was trying to keep track of everything but sometimes it was impossible! Notion give me all the tools and options to organize my entire professional and personal life in only 1 place and I love it!

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you are new to notion please watch a basic tutorial so you can know all the basics !

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?

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?

Easy to use, pricing is reasonable, encourages team collaboration

What do you dislike about the product?

Tables are not the easiest to use if you're used to Excel-Sheets

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

We use it for collecting customer feedback and project management. Also our talented developers create beautiful Notion based products such as Help Center. (we used to use support.io)

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Don't hesitate to open a support ticket, they will get back to you in less than 24 hours. Also, don't hesitate to say 'this doesn't work' either. Another agent will step in and solve the issue.

What do you like best about the product?

I can handle my entire life in notion, it provides me a lot of value in my life

What do you dislike about the product?

It's almost useless in my android tablet

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

It helps me to organize my activities, not only in the professional field, but also in my personal life

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Best invention after excel spreadsheets

What do you like best about the product?

I love the endless customization that Notion offers! AND bc of widespread adaptability, it is easy to find tutorials.

What do you dislike about the product?

BC Notion is a blank canvas, it can be a little daunting in the beginning to know where to start and how to build in a way that makes the most sense longterm.

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

We use Notion for company-wide project management.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Get a course or hire someone to help you build the framework

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?

Bit of a learning curve, but they have helpful tutorials! Our company has used it to organize a very large, complex system database to help keep track of everything from HR processes to customer-facing copy! So many capabilities like to-do lists, images, sub pages, tags, comments, and more!

What do you dislike about the product?

It can be easy to accidentally move or delete something, especially on the mobile app. It's also finicky when you want to copy something and paste it into an external system, like a Google Calendar template.

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

We have created a one-stop database rather than sifting through Slack messages or forgetting where we saved a Google doc or who we gave it access to.

What do you like best about the product?

It's easy to use clutter-free UI and UX that makes it so easy to create and store notes without worrying about anything else. Notion's block by block layout helps to reorganise the content if needed.

What do you dislike about the product?

In Notion, there is not most to dislike about previously it was their pricing that restricted new users to fully use the Notion before upgrading to a paid plan,
Now that problem is also gone with the introduction of a generous personal plan.

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

Managing the blog content,
The notion is the first place where what to write ideas are thrown and then with kanban view, they jump through their life cycle to complete blog post.
It helped to easily edit and manage the blogs and tag them with additional data using property fields.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Just use the personal plan to get started.