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People are saying this is a notion clone, but as someone who used Notion quite a bit and just got access to Loop, this is nowhere near as good as Notion. The po
by square_usual 4y ago
People are saying this is a notion clone, but as someone who used Notion quite a bit and just got access to Loop, this is nowhere near as good as Notion. The point of Notion is that you can build your own workflow in it via databases and pages. That is the use case Notion targets most heavily - they invest in community ambassadors who help people figure out how to build workflows, their advertising strategy is about it, etc. And this strategy works for small companies and startups which don't want to or need to invest in big, heavy solutions like Jira. Loop doesn't have that. As it stands, it seems to me more like a better Confluence - it looks great for docs (but no code blocks? Wtf MS? Why couldn't you just do markdown?!), but it can't replace Notion for what I (and some startups that I know use Notion) for my day to day work.
- guiambros 4y ago100x this. No LaTeX, no code blocks, no databases, no workflow or scripting, no markdown support (which makes porting content to/from Loop very painful). This is not a clone of Notion; it's a clone of Evernote mixed with Atlassian Confluence.. Maybe it'll eventually evolve and become a real competitor to Notion/Obsidian, but it seems to be targeting a different type of user. Also remember that Microsoft still offers SharePoint, so they have a vested interest in not disrupting the workflow automation space.