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Notion hasn't been great for me; I wanted to like it and we got it for our team, but everyone is struggling when doing anything besides text. I used it for blog

Notion hasn't been great for me; I wanted to like it and we got it for our team, but everyone is struggling when doing anything besides text. I used it for blogging, but currently only to actually write them, not publish because of the below issues. It's drag/upload images really dies when it's more than a few (on fiber, but that's not the point; in 2022 you need to remember what you were doing when uploading something and keep trying; it simply forgets the image completely and just shows the 'embed image' placeholder without anything in it for the images that 'didn't make it'). It is inconsistent between web, mobile and desktop; for instance, I make a page with 25 images on my desktop, wait for them to fully upload (it always says 100% done in the top but that's a lie; you have to check every photo in the right bottom); if it fails, remove them and doing it again because usually the first 1-2x half of them will just not make it and when done share on web or check on the mobile app, still half are missing even when fully uploaded according to the desktop. I don't really trust it work reliably for anything but text & links.

pbreit 4y ago
I've struggled to grok Notion and Coda. What are the killer apps? I'm happy with Google Docs.
- semi-extrinsic 4y ago
  Notion is Emacs for Gen Z. __________________________ Change my mind.
- orliesaurus 4y ago
  Coda is much more techie-focused, their powerpacks are 2nd to nobody. Notion is more for everyone. Literally after spending a week - it's pretty obvious how to use Notion because it's not super-feature-heavy. It just works. Basically if anyone wants to build an extremely beautifully crafted UI on top of Google Drive/Docs, you could perhaps have the same advantages of Notion in Google Docs (that would be my dream tbh)
  - tluyben2 4y ago
    Yeah, but that’s the feeling but it (Notion) doesn’t just work (as well) is my issue.
- erikpukinskis 4y ago
  Google Docs is owner-visible by default, whereas Notion is organization-visible by default. Google Docs (until recently?) doesn’t really do links between docs that well. The slash-based (/) UI in Notion is huge for onboarding. The different content types you can insert are super discoverable compared to Google Docs where you have to dig through the menus. You can’t fuck with the styles in Notion that much, which prevents people from becoming “format astronauts.” Notion has an organization-global index (like most wikis) which makes document discovery a bit easier. Notion has document metadata, which lets you get something like a simple database out of a set of documents. You can have a set of docs with custom fields (due date, point of contact, whatever) Notion gives you an inbox for notifications when you’re mentioned/stuff gets edited. Google Docs is catching up on some of this in the last couple years, but IMO they have been sleeping on this space since pretty early in Google Docs development.
- isandeep1995 4y ago
  Just wanted to chime in. I have my own Publishing Platform on top of Google Docs. It's called https://docswrite.com https://docswrite.com It can bulk publish your Google Docs to WordPress also it can create you a blog from Google Docs.

pbreit 4y ago

I've struggled to grok Notion and Coda. What are the killer apps? I'm happy with Google Docs.

semi-extrinsic 4y ago
Notion is Emacs for Gen Z. __________________________ Change my mind.
orliesaurus 4y ago
Coda is much more techie-focused, their powerpacks are 2nd to nobody. Notion is more for everyone. Literally after spending a week - it's pretty obvious how to use Notion because it's not super-feature-heavy. It just works. Basically if anyone wants to build an extremely beautifully crafted UI on top of Google Drive/Docs, you could perhaps have the same advantages of Notion in Google Docs (that would be my dream tbh)
- tluyben2 4y ago
  Yeah, but that’s the feeling but it (Notion) doesn’t just work (as well) is my issue.
erikpukinskis 4y ago
Google Docs is owner-visible by default, whereas Notion is organization-visible by default. Google Docs (until recently?) doesn’t really do links between docs that well. The slash-based (/) UI in Notion is huge for onboarding. The different content types you can insert are super discoverable compared to Google Docs where you have to dig through the menus. You can’t fuck with the styles in Notion that much, which prevents people from becoming “format astronauts.” Notion has an organization-global index (like most wikis) which makes document discovery a bit easier. Notion has document metadata, which lets you get something like a simple database out of a set of documents. You can have a set of docs with custom fields (due date, point of contact, whatever) Notion gives you an inbox for notifications when you’re mentioned/stuff gets edited. Google Docs is catching up on some of this in the last couple years, but IMO they have been sleeping on this space since pretty early in Google Docs development.
isandeep1995 4y ago
Just wanted to chime in. I have my own Publishing Platform on top of Google Docs. It's called https://docswrite.com https://docswrite.com It can bulk publish your Google Docs to WordPress also it can create you a blog from Google Docs.