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Perfect All-in-One Tool
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about Notion is it's customizability and, therefore, the flexibility to organize your items the way you want.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the Mac desktop app is a bit slow and there are some lags. An other thing I don't like that much about Notion is the Page sharing menu.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides me with a central place for all of my data. Before I found Notion, my notes were scattered around my devices. Now I organize them in my databases and can easily search for them.
Incredibly adaptable to any business or team
What do you like best about the product?
The possibility of building your own tools as your team and needs evolve. It is great for all needs, from simple note taking to complex project management and KPI monitoring.
All our teams use Notion on a daily basis; it has become our own little ERP !
All our teams use Notion on a daily basis; it has become our own little ERP !
What do you dislike about the product?
Table are sometimes slighlty frustrating to calculate totals, percentages, ratios, etc. and require some workarounds using relations and rollups. Yet, we've found that the integrations (like Grid) can do the job great !
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used to use Google docs + a project management tool (Clickup) and have moved everything to Notion. It replaces both marvellously and enables all teams to centralize info at all times.
We run our whole business on Notion except for our accounts and invoicing.
What do you like best about the product?
Notion is very easy to learn and highly configurable we run our whole business, including customer contact information, supplier contact information, jobs in, jobs through processing and jobs out and collected in the notion. It is the brain for our business.
What do you dislike about the product?
Printing from notion is a problem at the moment, and I'm sure they will fix this in time we would love to be able to print brother labels from notion but cannot find a way to do this at the moment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main use we put Notion to is tracking jobs in, then following them through processing and tracking them out to the customer, but Notion does so much more. We no use it for document management, parts inventory, CRM and more.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make good use of the ability to have email and phone numbers in Notion that enable fast communication with customers.
Great project management tool but challenging at first
What do you like best about the product?
Everything is in one place, easy to collaborate using comments etc. Love being able to create tables and then organise them in different views that are all linked. So when you change something in one view, it updates other views.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be challenging to use at first, and collaborators are sometimes unable to use the platform efficiently. The setup of various databases is a little tedious and requires a lot of learning and watching videos. It would be nice to connect to Canva and other creative software (maybe it's possible and I'm just not aware) so that designs can be viewed in Notion without needing to upload them, which creates an extra time-consuming step.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Content management for an e-commerce business. Create a high-level view of all published and planned content + ideas, plus find all the details on each page. Being able to drag things around the calendar and easily make changes is incredibly useful. Also provides a place to house all the business info, which can be shared with new staff and partners, making onboarding and sharing resources much more effortless.
Great tool for centralising notes for a business.
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to easily share notes with colleagues and also the ease of keeping notes for yourself.
It also has useful shortcuts and the ability to link other pages in your notes.
It also has useful shortcuts and the ability to link other pages in your notes.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you don't make sure to set up a structure in your notes it can get quite messy. For the rest, it's an awesome tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helping to easily find topics and articles from other departments.
The face of remote onboarding
What do you like best about the product?
As a remote company, with employees spread across the globe, Notion allows us to create a tailored onboarding program for new team members using templates and linking to all the relevant links/pages/documents that are going to set that newbie up for success.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not optimized for interactive, live team documents. Google Docs is still the preferred tool for living docs. It also would be rgeat to see free forming tools introduced, like Miro, so that you could collaborate with teams all in one space.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It acts as our companies wiki. It stores all of our roadmaps, goals, and processes. Personally, I use Notion for my to-do's and for building up onboarding programs for new hires.
Simply the all in one best app
What do you like best about the product?
You can arrange any sentences, to-do, projects, ideas, and so on...as you prefer, freely. Clear interface and easy to understand and start.
What do you dislike about the product?
Formulas are not very handy and tricky to use; there are more straightforward solutions. Adding colors and formatting options in tables could be attractive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can have all my work and personal wiki in just one app. My daily logs, activities, to-do list, planning and routines, bookmarks and notes during a meeting, all that well organized in Notion and always available on all my devices. I don't need any other app to manage different works.
An invaluable tool for startups
What do you like best about the product?
Notion is an amazing productivity tool that has proven to be a game-changer for my team. One of the most useful features of this application is its ability to link databases, making it incredibly easy for us to access and update information across multiple channels. Additionally, we've found it incredibly easy to customize our workspace to fit the needs of our team, which has led to improved collaboration and overall efficiency. In fact, we've already seen a 2x increase in productivity, and we're confident that with more practice, we'll be able to scale this even further to achieve up to 5x or more in efficiency gains. If you're looking for a powerful, flexible tool to streamline your team's workflow, Notion is definitely worth checking out!
What do you dislike about the product?
Notion can be a challenging tool to use due to the steep learning curve and challenges integrating with other systems. However, it's still a powerful productivity tool that has a lot of potential for team collaboration and project management. The ability to link databases is incredibly helpful, and the customization options allow you to create a workspace tailored to your team's needs. While integrating Notion with other systems can be frustrating, it's a cost-effective solution that can provide significant benefits to your team's workflow. Overall, if you're willing to invest the time and effort into learning how to use Notion effectively, it can be a valuable addition to your team's toolkit.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a team manager, I've found that Notion is an incredibly powerful tool for keeping my team organized and on track. We use it to manage projects, assign tasks, and track progress, and it has proven to be a real game-changer for us. The ability to centralize our knowledge base and share information in real-time has streamlined our workflows and improved communication across the team. I also appreciate how customizable Notion is. I can tailor it to meet the specific needs of my team, which has helped us work more efficiently and effectively.
Transformed the way I think about note taking
What do you like best about the product?
I love the way Notion helps me build connections between my notes and organise within my notes. It has the tools for both ad-hoc notetaking and building a flexible project management system. Two features in particular have changed how I take notes and organise my work - linked tables and a few special blocks.
Firstly, the linked tables -- which can instantly transform into kanban boards, tables, calendars, list or timelines -- are powerful and intuitive. Essentially, you can make table entries, but you can expand each of them into full notes. The table just allows you to powerfully group and filter those notes, and that is exactly what I needed. I love being able to categorise my notes with tags and add deadlines or statistics to them, as well as add status tags such as todo, in progress, etc to stay organised. One thing that really helps me is setting deadlines on the entries and getting Notion to send me an email reminder. It especially helps when I need to check up on something in a month or few months time.
Notion uses this 'block' system for each type of text or work. For example, a paragraph is a block, and an embed or an image or a bullet point is a block. Blocks can be nested under or within each other, or placed side by side. I love using > as a shortcut to hide parts of my notes which aren't as relevant to the main idea but that I still don't want to use. Even better, now they have also implemented collapsible heders, and it is my new favourite feature. I find myself missing these collapsible blocks when I'm taking notes in other software. I use template blocks to simplify more repetitive work, as it auto-populates the document with a format that I can specify. I also like callout blocks to highlight particular parts of my work.
Firstly, the linked tables -- which can instantly transform into kanban boards, tables, calendars, list or timelines -- are powerful and intuitive. Essentially, you can make table entries, but you can expand each of them into full notes. The table just allows you to powerfully group and filter those notes, and that is exactly what I needed. I love being able to categorise my notes with tags and add deadlines or statistics to them, as well as add status tags such as todo, in progress, etc to stay organised. One thing that really helps me is setting deadlines on the entries and getting Notion to send me an email reminder. It especially helps when I need to check up on something in a month or few months time.
Notion uses this 'block' system for each type of text or work. For example, a paragraph is a block, and an embed or an image or a bullet point is a block. Blocks can be nested under or within each other, or placed side by side. I love using > as a shortcut to hide parts of my notes which aren't as relevant to the main idea but that I still don't want to use. Even better, now they have also implemented collapsible heders, and it is my new favourite feature. I find myself missing these collapsible blocks when I'm taking notes in other software. I use template blocks to simplify more repetitive work, as it auto-populates the document with a format that I can specify. I also like callout blocks to highlight particular parts of my work.
What do you dislike about the product?
Mostly I love Notion, but there are a few faults. The export feature is really troublesome -- and it only exports to HTML, markdown, and PDF. You can't customise anything about the way it exports, and the default margins, colours and sizing is just not to my liking. You lose a lot of your formatting as well if you move your Notion work to other software, which is tricky when I work with others using Notion.
It is difficult to bulk download files.
On the personal plan, cooperation is possible, but a little clunky. Enterprise collaboration is significantly better, but issues persist like two people not being able to edit the same block at once and sometimes some lag and delay in who is typing.
Notion integrations vary in quality and usefulness. JIRA and Github for example seem very limited in the additional information supplied - but if I remember correctly, whimsical was enough to be useful. Embedding webpages has worked great for me in some instances, but most webpages are not designed to be embedded, so it is slightly less effective than I thought it would be.
It is difficult to bulk download files.
On the personal plan, cooperation is possible, but a little clunky. Enterprise collaboration is significantly better, but issues persist like two people not being able to edit the same block at once and sometimes some lag and delay in who is typing.
Notion integrations vary in quality and usefulness. JIRA and Github for example seem very limited in the additional information supplied - but if I remember correctly, whimsical was enough to be useful. Embedding webpages has worked great for me in some instances, but most webpages are not designed to be embedded, so it is slightly less effective than I thought it would be.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Organisation of my work - not forgetting relevant information or deadlines
- Connecting related notes and concepts together, this is a first class feature in Notion
- Project Timelines
- Connecting related notes and concepts together, this is a first class feature in Notion
- Project Timelines
Most Efficient Note Tool. You can do many things with Notion.
What do you like best about the product?
I can use it for many purposes. My company decided to use Noiton as a company portal site. Also, I use Notion for research results, meeting minutes, and log histories.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since there are many functions, sometimes I find it hard to find a certain feature. Also, I heard about a new feature launch that you can use tabs that enable you to switch pages easily but I still cannot find the feature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Great Knowledge Base: I use Notion for leaving information we agreed with the team as history, onboarding pages for new employees, and the information that we might look back on in the future.
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