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I was a huge Notion fan. However, the long sync times were driving me nuts. I have since moved to inkdrop (https://www.inkdrop.app/ https://www.inkdrop.app/)

by dogas 5y ago

I was a huge Notion fan. However, the long sync times were driving me nuts. I have since moved to inkdrop (https://www.inkdrop.app/ https://www.inkdrop.app/) because it's much better for my use case: * I can write Markdown notes. I've only wanted to write markdown notes. * The syncing is incredibly fast because it's using an existing technology purpose-built for syncing (CouchDB) * I can bring my own CouchDB and not have my data locked in * Has a mobile app that works well * There is a "vim mode" and that makes me happy.

nojvek 5y ago
The big attractor to Notion for me is the All-in-on workspace idea. It's a table-database, it's a wiki, it's a kanban board, it's a team calendar, it's a project gallery, it's a blog. Tables can have wiki notes, which can have tables. The recursive nature works very well for organizing your knowledgebase and having an entire org work together. The things I hate about notion. 1) pressing / anywhere opens the menu. So annoying. 2) It's live collaboration on code is awful. We end up using codesandbox and then copy-pasting back. 3) It looses and new edits every now and then. Their sync needs work. 4) No way to proper version control documents and have a pull-request/suggestion like model for editing authoritative docs. The other player in the same market is https://coda.io https://coda.io. They go quite a bit further than notion in terms of formulas and reference tables. With both Coda and Notion, I feel I seldom have to use google docs.
- IceWreck 5y ago
  > It's a table-database, it's a wiki, it's a kanban board, it's a team calendar, it's a project gallery, it's a blog. So what does it do that something like gitlab or phabricator cannot do ? And if you are willing to consider different products for different things then you have dokuwiki/xwiki/wikijs/bookstack for wiki and multiple popular project management tools like kanboard/focalboard.
  - kwinten 5y ago
    > So what does it do that something like gitlab or phabricator cannot do ? Gitlab is great. Their wiki is absolute shit. Notion just has a mostly really great user experience for writing notes, adding some tables or screenshots, moving them around, etc.
xvilka 5y ago
Does it support teams like Notion?

by dogas 5y ago

nojvek 5y ago

The big attractor to Notion for me is the All-in-on workspace idea. It's a table-database, it's a wiki, it's a kanban board, it's a team calendar, it's a project gallery, it's a blog. Tables can have wiki notes, which can have tables. The recursive nature works very well for organizing your knowledgebase and having an entire org work together. The things I hate about notion. 1) pressing / anywhere opens the menu. So annoying. 2) It's live collaboration on code is awful. We end up using codesandbox and then copy-pasting back. 3) It looses and new edits every now and then. Their sync needs work. 4) No way to proper version control documents and have a pull-request/suggestion like model for editing authoritative docs. The other player in the same market is https://coda.io https://coda.io. They go quite a bit further than notion in terms of formulas and reference tables. With both Coda and Notion, I feel I seldom have to use google docs.

IceWreck 5y ago
> It's a table-database, it's a wiki, it's a kanban board, it's a team calendar, it's a project gallery, it's a blog. So what does it do that something like gitlab or phabricator cannot do ? And if you are willing to consider different products for different things then you have dokuwiki/xwiki/wikijs/bookstack for wiki and multiple popular project management tools like kanboard/focalboard.
- kwinten 5y ago
  > So what does it do that something like gitlab or phabricator cannot do ? Gitlab is great. Their wiki is absolute shit. Notion just has a mostly really great user experience for writing notes, adding some tables or screenshots, moving them around, etc.

xvilka 5y ago

Does it support teams like Notion?