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My only pet-peeve about Notion is that I want to default to large blocks of text all the time. Not single lines of some data-type. It's really annoying and I k
by jspash 5y ago
My only pet-peeve about Notion is that I want to default to large blocks of text all the time. Not single lines of some data-type.
It's really annoying and I know some people probably love this feature. But I feel like something that is primarily a note-taking app (yes, it a super-customisable database etc.e etc. also) should act like 99% of the note-taking apps that have been written previously.
Am I missing a huge paradigm shift in the way notes are taking "these days"? Just give me a blob with free rein. I'll format it later (maybe).
Using Notion isn't - for lack of a better word - comfortable to use.
Having said that, I use it all day every day. So it must be doing something right!
- leokennis 5y agoNot sure if this is fixed now, but as Notion basically treats every line of text as one “row object” that you can drag around etc., you cannot even select multiple lines of text on iOS…
- Spivak 5y agoTechnically it’s every paragraph of text but you have to Shift+Enter to not generate a carriage return.
- jeffkeen 5y agoThis right here. It’s silly that you can’t select multiple lines of text like you would expect. I tweeted at them about this in 2019 with a demo gif illustrating the absurdity but it’s still the way it is. I keep everything in notion and half regret the switch because using it as a notes app still feels clunky due to this. https://twitter.com/realjeffkeen/status/1176483281682018306?s=21 https://twitter.com/realjeffkeen/status/1176483281682018306?...
- whatever_dude 5y agoEvery time I think I should give Notion another try, I run into this and then remember why I didn't like it the first time around.
- notjustanymike 5y agoIt's annoying, but foundationional to how Notion works. It's a giant tree, and there's not a lot of difference between a page and a block. This modularity is what makes Notion great - you can dump a whole bunch of text of page and not worry about having to reorganize and break formatting later.