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Great for simple databases, poor export capabilities
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Notion provides a great "second brain" data warehouse for my work and ideas. I am currently learning how to use it and have come to appreciate the wide variety of keyboard shortcuts and relative simplicity of the interface. I like that it does not look and feel all shiny polished-up (and iOS-like) the way some alternatives do. Feels more like a blank canvas and less constricted, even though there is still a lot of room for improvement.
What do you dislike about the product?
One area which drives me nuts are the dismal export capabilities. And I'm not just talking about the lack of ability to copy and paste the entire contents of a page into an externmal editor. I am referring to the compelte inability to even export anything as RTF. This feels intentional and is seriously handicaps the user's ability to integrate Notion into their workflow if they use other apps, like I do. This prevents the user from being able to expoert to or even copy and paste the entire contents of a page into Wordpress, for example. Native Wordpress integration would be FANTASTIC. The Wordpress blocks editor is great - and you can easily copy and paste the contents of a Word doc into it. Not possible from Notion. Frankly, this feels intetntional, and it stinks.
The Notion ai is a good start, but it feels very early/underdeveloped and consistently lacks sophistication and accuracy in its responses. Significant errors in the data it pulls in are common. For example, when asking about a movie, it described the movie as "upcoming" and pending release, but the film came out two years ago. This type of mistake is common. The responses lack the sophistication I have seen in other ai products, and literally every single response requires significant massaging with multiple follow-up prompts to be anywhere near useable in copy, and even then they will require deep editing. Notion's AI is best for mining data and doing research. Producing workable copy is not its strong suit - which is a shame, as my application requires lots of good copy. I find myself spending an enormous amount of time editing anything it produces before it can be used in a document or blog post. This feels like an AI in preschool. It needs to grow up and be trained and its "cognitive" abilities need to grow and mature--it really sounds like a child is behind the curtain sometimes. ChatGPT produces responses which can be read without feeling like you are reading something written by an school-aged child doing a research project for the science fair. The constant massaging of responses is tiresome and frustrating--and it never seems to produce a result I am happy with. Lots of work to do here, Notion.
The Notion ai is a good start, but it feels very early/underdeveloped and consistently lacks sophistication and accuracy in its responses. Significant errors in the data it pulls in are common. For example, when asking about a movie, it described the movie as "upcoming" and pending release, but the film came out two years ago. This type of mistake is common. The responses lack the sophistication I have seen in other ai products, and literally every single response requires significant massaging with multiple follow-up prompts to be anywhere near useable in copy, and even then they will require deep editing. Notion's AI is best for mining data and doing research. Producing workable copy is not its strong suit - which is a shame, as my application requires lots of good copy. I find myself spending an enormous amount of time editing anything it produces before it can be used in a document or blog post. This feels like an AI in preschool. It needs to grow up and be trained and its "cognitive" abilities need to grow and mature--it really sounds like a child is behind the curtain sometimes. ChatGPT produces responses which can be read without feeling like you are reading something written by an school-aged child doing a research project for the science fair. The constant massaging of responses is tiresome and frustrating--and it never seems to produce a result I am happy with. Lots of work to do here, Notion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion provides a centralized warehouse of ideas and simple project plans. For example, notion is great at keeping track of things in simple databases. Most of what I am using Notion four consists of relatively flat, databases and research projects. I have attempted to use it for project management, but found its p.m. tools lacking. I feel like Notion is very early stage, and for it to be an effective p.m. tool, someone at Notion needs to go play with Microsoft project and Asana for a while. Also, some thing I would love to see in Notion would be native mind maps. Free, floating bubbles connected to each other would be wonderful. The blank canvas look of Notion is an illusion. Everything must snap to grid, and it would be great is we truly had free reight over each page's workspace, perhaops with the ability to turn a "snap to grid" feature on and off.
Productivity skyrockets
What do you like best about the product?
Having all documents in one space. Ease of switching between multiple workspaces. All the different integrations, ways to style documents, the design, ease of collaboration, and new AI
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficulty in having side by side pages. This should be built in without having to right click and position the two windows yourself. Also I think there should be more options when exporting a document
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Central database for product information and documentation.
Ease of writing and rewriting paragraphs with notion AI
Different project management tools to manage time and tasks between multiple users
Ease of writing and rewriting paragraphs with notion AI
Different project management tools to manage time and tasks between multiple users
Still learning all it's use cases but it's already been a game changer for me
What do you like best about the product?
Notion AI has been beneficial in providing templates to work from when writing my cover letters and resumes by. Overall, I've found Notion AI to be a valuable tool in streamlining my job search process when tailoring my resume to a job description. I also figured out how to use it to create readme.md for my GitHub repos by providing it with my source code. When I have to write a LinkedIn post or respond to emails with a specific tone in my mind Notion AI is again to the rescue. I've also used it to create documentation for all sorts of uses cases requiring code blocks and explanations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I get an error when making the request and must carefully structure my instructions. But I also haven't read any instructions and strictly use this on the fly. I could probably reduce the occurrence of errors by reading the actual documentation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organizing my notes, and organizing my job search helps with writing articles or documentation, fills in gaps when attempting to write code, saves me hours searching on google,
Changed my life
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is almost perfect, I find it really easy to use and very intuitive. The AI function can be improved but as a beta program it works fantastic. The UI is the most important for me, it is unrivalled in my opinion, I was never able to take advantage of note taking sofeware as much as I do with Notion.
What do you dislike about the product?
The AI doesn't read embedded pdf, I imagine that would be one of the ground breaking features if it was available.
The calendar can also be improved. Im big of user interface and I feel like the calendar function could be easier to add events/task. I don't know specifically what can be done, I just think it would be great if the calendar was easier to use.
The calendar can also be improved. Im big of user interface and I feel like the calendar function could be easier to add events/task. I don't know specifically what can be done, I just think it would be great if the calendar was easier to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion, more specifically the AI function can really handle the grunt work of processing data into information, it takes the workload of analysing texts so I can focus on more important things such as writing papers.
Notion - The best note taking app
What do you like best about the product?
It is very user-friendly and has a fantastic UI, making note-taking fun and easy to organize. The thing that puts Notion above the competitor's apps is Notion AI.
What do you dislike about the product?
I absolutely love everything about notion and notion ai is my favorite aspect. The only thing I could come up with is that I want Notion AI to stay up to date with the new GPT releases by OpenAI. This means I would like for Notion AI to switch to use the new GPT-4.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As I am studying for interviews, I need a note-taking app to help me organize tips, tricks and algorithms. Notion AI helps me caption algorithms as well as generate question prompts and examples that help me with the study process.
I love the AI product
What do you like best about the product?
I love how intuitive the AI is and how much it has lightened my workload. It responds great to different asks and expands my English far greater than I can which has enhanced my overall performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
If possible, the AI doesn't really respond to making a text longer, without repeating itself (using the exact same words/phrases) if that could be changed that would be fantastic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lightening my workload by being able to source content, information and statistics at a moment notice has taken a 8 hour workload down to one hour instead which is amazing!
Truly an all-in-one solution
What do you like best about the product?
Notion is a jack of many trades and somehow a master of all. I use it to manage everything from my business, personal hobbies, and so much more. I initially used it as a replacement for Google Docs due to the robust features, easy collaboration and the super clean UI was very appealing to me as a web designer. Over time I've ditched Asana and a few other productivity and organizational tools because of just how much Notion can do.
What do you dislike about the product?
There was recently a very short period of downtime with Notion that was frustrating but thankfully very brief. It was wasy to keep up-to-date on their progress resolving the issue which was great. My only suggestion would be the ability to access everything in an offline mode in cases like that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Notion to keep myself and my business organized. I'm a one-man team wearing a lot of hats, so the AI writing assistant has been a major help in not only organizing everything but taking some of the load off my plate.
Really great tool to increase productivity and efficiency
What do you like best about the product?
It's helped me organize my life - I'm a student and have a lot of assignments to keep track of. I can organize all my course notes, schedule when I need to get assignments done and keep track of all my lectures in one place
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't much I dislike about Notion. At first, it was difficult to use and customize and I didn't understand all the shortcuts. With some practice, I got the hang of it quickly and now I think it's the most efficient way for me to work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have a lot of articles to read for my classes. Being a university student, I get so many readings that there's no way I can complete them all to be prepared for lectures, while getting all my assignments done. I find the summarize tool so helpful - I just paste an article into a page and get the AI assistant to summarize it for me, and the option to make the summary longer or shorter really helps. I also find it helpful when writing research papers for school. I usually take all my notes and organize all my research in Notion, but the hardest part of writing an essay is knowing where to start. Notion AI compiles all my research and puts together a really clear research paper outline for me so that I can get started on my writing. Once I'm done writing, I use the improve writing and fix spelling and grammar tool so I can save time on proofreading. It's really been a game changer for my productivity.
Notion Review - Marco Sanchez Sanz
What do you like best about the product?
It's a vessel for all the information going through my head, the perfect extension of my brain. It's a tool for anyone and everyone, for me as a student it's perfect for getting organised.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish you could draw on it with the Apple Pencil. Appart from that I don't have any complaints
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion has helped me keep everything about my life and my studies all in one place, I can see all the info I need by just opening it up, it's really convenient and all the features help me a lot
a sharp tool for organising every aspect of your life
What do you like best about the product?
it doesn't make you do everything a certain way it allows you to find your own way. It is completely customizable and will let you do things like manage your finances as well as create simple to-do lists.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't much that I don't like however sometimes it can be daunting to start a new project or create a new page because choosing a template isn't easy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It gives me a place to collect all my notes from my university lectures and have them easily accessible in one place. When im lost for ideas notion ai can be helpful
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