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Really well thought through business and personal wiki with relational databases
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility to turn any type of content to any other type of content. You can start with just writing plain text and then curate the space to turn into the most complicated, related database. Another thing that is a huge time saver is that you only enter the information once, and if you use the appropriate tags and synced blocks then the information populates itself in all the other related areas if designed correctly. Super easy to ramp up learning with a day of guided assistance.
What do you dislike about the product?
It will take over your life, and sometimes you will spend more time thinking about how to continuously improve it (in a good way) and forget to feed the cat.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion helps me and my team capture organizational knowledge (business brain) in a very intuitive way. Uplifts the whole team. Way more productive and no missed deadlines.
I use Notion to manage my life, my work and my projects
What do you like best about the product?
I can almost do everything I want, I can access to it from any type of device and I can organize, invite people and create multiple workspace for different purpose.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a great app, but sometimes it can be hard to access to it. And I said in the title that I'm managing my life with it. So it should be great if I could access to my data when I'm offline.
Also opening the app from my phone take times, if you can work on this, so that we can type notes faster.
Also opening the app from my phone take times, if you can work on this, so that we can type notes faster.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion helps me to stay productive and organized. I have multiple accounts for my different jobs and different workspaces for my personal projects.
So for my jobs, Notion helps me express exactly my plans and my progress.
So for my jobs, Notion helps me express exactly my plans and my progress.
Great knowledge management and process centralization tool!
What do you like best about the product?
It's very user-friendly and intuitive especially for users coming over from another comparable product. I like how easily content can be added, rearranged, moved from page to page, and formatted. Page cover images, emoji icons, and a simplified UI are all perks that can be leveraged to make otherwise boring pages stand out and more engaging for employees.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you're a part of a smaller org that utilizes Notion, there is no implementation process so you have to figure it out as you go. This leads to misuse and mismanagement of the platform and the content within it. There are so many pages that employees have to fumble through and the search function isn't the greatest compared to other similar platforms.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's our (only) central storage of all org-related knowledge, processes, onboarding checklists, etc...if something needs to be permanently housed for long-term use/reference, Notion is where our org puts it. Not the best solution, but an easy one to use at least.
Using Notion has helped me put a structure around thoughts
What do you like best about the product?
I love the fact that it is easy to use and I can collaborate with my team without the need for emails or any separate communication. The fact that i caninsert tables etc to give the document a structure is also great.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think notion is an acquired taste as it took some time for me to muscle through the initial phase of usage. Maybe the onboarding could have been a bit more friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Structured thought process
Habit of Documentation
Easy Collaboration
Easy setting up of online pages
Helps with productivity and tracking tasks at each individual level
Habit of Documentation
Easy Collaboration
Easy setting up of online pages
Helps with productivity and tracking tasks at each individual level
A Collaboration and Productivity Tool that meets all of my needs!
What do you like best about the product?
I love that Notion is super customizable. There are tons of free templates for you to utilize to edit and make your own. I use Notion to not only track work tasks and my school work, but I also use it for my personal life. It's just an awesome tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there was a way to download the files and still be able to customize them or download them and edit them in something like Google Sheets as not everyone on my team uses the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Notion to keep track of candidates in my pipeline as well as to track candidates I am coordinating interviews for that I am not the recruiter. I also use it to keep track of work, school, and personal tasks to get done. I like to keep personal metrics in there as well such as company hiring metrics and sourcing resources that help me on a daily.
Better than the rest, great for individuals, good for teams, developers love it
What do you like best about the product?
Notion has a great user experience for the individual user. It allows you to take notes in many different styles. The text formatting is intuitive and straightforward. The hotkeys/shortcuts are great for powerusers. Most of all it's built with use by engineers in mind. There are native code blocks and code formatting. I love the idea of "blocks", which limits the first cmd+A select to the block, then if you press it a few more times, it'll select the whole document. It has made my note-taking iteration so much faster.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are still some rough edges. Because of the unique block model, there can be frustrating experiences with it. Selecting multiple blocks with a cursor often seems to not work as expected. Formatting multiple blocks at a time doesn't work well.
Collaboration is the biggest aspect that I dislike and is worse than competing products. There are still many things that can be improved around commenting; navigating comments, dealing with resolved comments, etc.
Collaboration is the biggest aspect that I dislike and is worse than competing products. There are still many things that can be improved around commenting; navigating comments, dealing with resolved comments, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For individuals, it is a note-taking management system. All the features make note-taking faster and more enjoyable to use. In the broader company, it is a knowledge base. The formatting and UX has made it easier to add, modify, and view documents. Since it's so dynamic, it's also easy to collaborate and iterate on the knowledge base.
Notion is Great!
What do you like best about the product?
It's fun to use with lots of aesthetic customizations, but also it does so many things. Project management, databases, wiki. It's all there. I looked a lot of competitors before settling on Notion, and it stood out as the most flexible and customizable option. After using it for my business, I bought a second account for my personal life.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some clunky features and desired quality of life improvements. For example, the emojis are set to a style that isn't very legible against the background colors the platform uses or you can't set defaults for database items (so you need to manually set the icon when adding a new database line.) Little things like that. I could go on, but it honestly doesn't matter because the people at Notion are aggressively updating the platform, and are extremely receptive to product feedback. I have full confidence any flaws are temporary at best.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My goodness, as I've mentioned, they're aggressively updating the platform. Recently they improved the database features and interface. It's so much easier to use now and loads faster. I love it.
A Notion review from a game developer that uses it daily
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of content creation and more importantly, modification. Ex. turn a bunch of stuff into a sub-page in a couple of clicks, drag content to another page, convert between different types (ex. bullet list to checklist), reorder content by dragging, etc.
Quickly sharing pages with others even if they don't have a notion account (ex. artists we want to commission).
Also, databases are life.
Quickly sharing pages with others even if they don't have a notion account (ex. artists we want to commission).
Also, databases are life.
What do you dislike about the product?
Out of the top of my head
- Limited security (no 2-factor auth of any kind).
- Being able to quickly save a reference from the web is amazing, not having a way to save the images permanently (instead of simply embedding them) is less so.
- Not being able to backup/export my personal and professional workspaces separately.
- Very limited colour palette for things like tag colours - please add more!
- I now hate all other software that doesn't allow me to reorder paragraphs by dragging them.
- Limited support for diagrams.
- I'm sure I'll remember something else after submitting this form - feel free to contact me later.
- Limited security (no 2-factor auth of any kind).
- Being able to quickly save a reference from the web is amazing, not having a way to save the images permanently (instead of simply embedding them) is less so.
- Not being able to backup/export my personal and professional workspaces separately.
- Very limited colour palette for things like tag colours - please add more!
- I now hate all other software that doesn't allow me to reorder paragraphs by dragging them.
- Limited support for diagrams.
- I'm sure I'll remember something else after submitting this form - feel free to contact me later.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's like a 2nd brain - I can offload pretty much everything into it, from references to project ideas to the actual project design and production. I can also tinker with the structure until I'm happy with it and it doesn't have to be the same for all projects.
STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED CONTENT IN ONE
What do you like best about the product?
NOTION OFFERS YOU THE BLANK PAGE, READY TO BE FILLED EASILY - NO WORRIES ABOUT ORDERING YOUR CONTENT, AS THAT CAN EASILY HAPPEN AFTERWARDS: REORDER YOUR BLOCKS OF TEXT, YOUR PAGES, CHANGE THE NATURE OF YOUR BLOCKS, OR MAKE THEM ITEMS IN DATABASES - IT'S ABOUT THE SPEED OF CREATING CONTENT. ONCE YOU HAVE DISCOVERED REPEATING PATTERNS, USE THESE IN TEMPLATES TO HAVE YOUR CONTENT FORMED IN PREDEFINED STRUCTURES. EASILY COLLABORATE WITH TEAM MEMBERS, AND EASILY INVOLVE PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE THROUGH SHARING ONLY THIS PAGE TO THEM.
What do you dislike about the product?
THE NOTION WORKPLACE IS HIGHLY DYNAMIC - YOU NEED TO GET USED TO THAT. AND FURTHER TO THAT: OF COURSE YOU BUMP INTO THINGS THAT SHOULD BE DESIGNED BETTER, BUT THEN YOU ARE QUITE OFTEN SURPRISED BY HOW FAST NOTION EVOLVES AND ADDS NEW FEATURES AND BETTER ERGONOMICS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
NOTION HELPS TEAMS TO EASILY COLLABORATE THROUGH EXISTING AND NEWLY TO BE MADE CONTENT; IT OFFERS A REALM OF PREDEFINED STRUCTURES TO DO THIS. TEAM KNOWLEDGE WORK IS ALL ABOUT 'DESIGNING' INFORMATION -- THAT'S NOTION'S NATURE.
As the AI assistant has been added since begin 2023, it really got some superpowers. It helps me translating, documenting, writing letters, summarizing, explaining...
I even use it as a kind of coach and co-sensemaker!
As the AI assistant has been added since begin 2023, it really got some superpowers. It helps me translating, documenting, writing letters, summarizing, explaining...
I even use it as a kind of coach and co-sensemaker!
A tool to scale team organization & engagement
What do you like best about the product?
Notion's UI offers a sandbox for any organization to build upon. Our team was able to leverage the easy-to-use UI to rollout a shared library of knowledge docs, team information, and HR materials. Notion has enabled us to improve team, organization and client communications. It serves as our company's "homebase," making it easy for us to share announcements, manage onboarding, create a community, and keep track of deadlines.
What do you dislike about the product?
Getting started with Notion is super easy but after you get your workspace built, there are some challenges in scaling. As an advanced user, there's fewer resources on how to maximize your instance to leverage database details or other features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion is providing a "homebase" for our organization. We had no location to centrally hold announcements, onboarding materials, SOPs, etc. before we got Notion. Now the entire team has access to the documents they need to be successful.
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