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It looks neat, but what differentiates you from say something like Notion [1] ? [1] https://www.notion.so/ https://www.notion.so/

by jclos 6y ago

fastball 6y ago
Good question! Notion is a great product, big fan myself. There are a couple main differences, but I think the biggest one is the way things are shared and from there the kind of workflows we are trying to accommodate. Everyone has a different way they like to organize their notes – this can make it hard for people to collaborate because they all want the final product (a collection of notes) to suit their own workflow. Notion has done a great job of building a great UX for collaborative working, but when you collaborate with someone on Notion, you still need to agree to a "structure" and then collaborate within the framework of that structure. In contrast, we have built Supernotes to allow for many different ways to organize your notes. And more importantly, different ways that collaborators can organize the same notes. - You can have structured hierarchies using nesting, not unlike a conventional folders + files system. Though I think our implementation is more powerful, as nesting allows you to more easily "expand" on ideas, and a single card can actually have multiple parents. This is how most existing note-taking / knowledge base apps are structured. With multi-parents though, we are fairly unique. - You can have unstructured graphs by using our hyperlinking functionality. This is how the internet in general is structured, and now what Notion, Roam, and others are doing. - You can have a totally flat structure using only tags. And of course you can mix-and-match these options as much as you want / need to. This makes it easier for people (espescially people that aren't on a "team" – think freelancers, students, etc) to collaborate in their own way, because while you are organizing things with hyperlinks, I could be using tags to organize the same cards, but in an entirely different way. tl;dr – what products like Notion are striving for is "all together sharing". What we're aiming for with Supernotes is more granulated, personalized sharing.

It looks neat, but what differentiates you from say something like Notion [1] ? [1] https://www.notion.so/ https://www.notion.so/

by jclos 6y ago

It looks neat, but what differentiates you from say something like Notion [1] ? [1] https://www.notion.so/ https://www.notion.so/

fastball 6y ago

Good question! Notion is a great product, big fan myself. There are a couple main differences, but I think the biggest one is the way things are shared and from there the kind of workflows we are trying to accommodate. Everyone has a different way they like to organize their notes – this can make it hard for people to collaborate because they all want the final product (a collection of notes) to suit their own workflow. Notion has done a great job of building a great UX for collaborative working, but when you collaborate with someone on Notion, you still need to agree to a "structure" and then collaborate within the framework of that structure. In contrast, we have built Supernotes to allow for many different ways to organize your notes. And more importantly, different ways that collaborators can organize the same notes. - You can have structured hierarchies using nesting, not unlike a conventional folders + files system. Though I think our implementation is more powerful, as nesting allows you to more easily "expand" on ideas, and a single card can actually have multiple parents. This is how most existing note-taking / knowledge base apps are structured. With multi-parents though, we are fairly unique. - You can have unstructured graphs by using our hyperlinking functionality. This is how the internet in general is structured, and now what Notion, Roam, and others are doing. - You can have a totally flat structure using only tags. And of course you can mix-and-match these options as much as you want / need to. This makes it easier for people (espescially people that aren't on a "team" – think freelancers, students, etc) to collaborate in their own way, because while you are organizing things with hyperlinks, I could be using tags to organize the same cards, but in an entirely different way. tl;dr – what products like Notion are striving for is "all together sharing". What we're aiming for with Supernotes is more granulated, personalized sharing.