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Yup, that’s how they present it, though in reality it’s pretty clunky as a project management tool, and you’d almost always be better off using a purpose-built
by MattRix 5y ago
Yup, that’s how they present it, though in reality it’s pretty clunky as a project management tool, and you’d almost always be better off using a purpose-built solution.
Notion makes a decent tool for a personal/organizational wiki but it’s too slow/unresponsive/janky to use for many other purposes IMO.
I’ve been using it for a couple years and I used to hold out hope that the performance could be optimized, but at this point I think it must be some fundamental issue with their tech stack (or some other organizational issue). It just feels bad to use. The pages take forever to load, the search is slow, and the actual page editing feels sluggish.
It’s a shame because otherwise I really like the core ideas of how Notion works. If someone released a tool that was “Notion but fast”, I’d switch in an instant.
- ternaryoperator 5y agoYour comments reflect my almost two-year experience with the paid version of Notion. I found it very difficult to figure out how to use the tools beyond very narrow use-cases they provided in examples. And I found the docs were almost useless in explaining the overarching design. As a result, despite a lot of time spent, I kept bumping into unexpected limitations or design corners with no way out other than to scrap the document type I was trying to construct. I went back to Trello for project management, Todoist for to-do's, and my Dropbox-backed markdown files for notes. It's a shame because with more attention to the user experience and better docs, I think they'd have a killer product.
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- jrcii2 5y agoI had a similar experience. The slowness of Notion to me. I now use Obsidian which has tons of nice shortcuts and is snappy, even as it's what I believe is an Electron app.
- cparsons3000 5y agoAlso had the same experience. Couldn't stand the unresponsiveness and clunkiness. Ended up moving to Bookmark OS
- fudged71 5y agoI just recently deep-dived into using Notion for our boutique management consulting firm. It has been great so far as a lightweight CRM, and a collaborative meeting note—taking tool with backlinks into CRM. Also documenting our internal processes. Project management and ToDos haven’t stuck.
- disordinary 5y agoWhen it first launched we talked to the guy who made it (pretty sure it started as a side project) and IIRC it was backed by a relational database with every block being a row and a lot of joins that make up a page. Hopefully they've optimised it since then, but if that's still the architecture it's going to be hard to get performant.