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This isn't an endorsement for Notion, I also dislike it and use other tools. I can see why some do however, it's a solid second brain organizational tool, somew

This isn't an endorsement for Notion, I also dislike it and use other tools. I can see why some do however, it's a solid second brain organizational tool, somewhere to place things "long term" and keep them. It's a less "active" tool, which is also why for some people I think Notion is the wrong solution but for others works great. Think: internal team documents in one central place (less active) vs updating your app's documentation multiple times an hour (more active), the latter of which is not what Notion is good for at all. Also I will say, with their API you can technically hook up whatever databases you have within Notion for use, so it can easily become a place to store your blog notes and use them without copying/pasting. But again, blog notes are rarely changing so you see the pattern here I hope. I also don't get the notion template hype on gumroad/etsy/producthunt/etc. You can create them yourself within seconds, but that's the nature of the "productivity industry", you get big bucks for the mere idea that your product will make their life easier/faster.

epolanski 3y ago
> the latter of which is not what Notion is good for at all why?
- calvinmorrison 3y ago
  Especially since you can share notion webs publically per page. Perfect for latest documentation, job postings, etc.
  - waboremo 3y ago
    Depends what kind of documentation. General team docs? Yeah great those barely change. Same with job postings, outside of an "active" toggle, there's not much that changes for them. Everything else? You waste too much time dealing with notion lag. A lot of the integrations also suck and are far too limited in what they do. One final note on docs, one of the best moves in recent years is expressing difficult concepts through interactive content. Notion cannot handle this at all. Static or nothing on notion!
- waboremo 3y ago
  A couple reasons. It's operationally too slow, and when you're working on teams (larger than 1 per role), this makes notion a hassle to update. For devdocs, the larger developer community has already rallied around open source tools that provide easier management through github. The current sharing options are also not good enough to support that use case. Essentially, the more you update a notion page, the more unbearable it gets.

epolanski 3y ago

> the latter of which is not what Notion is good for at all why?

calvinmorrison 3y ago
Especially since you can share notion webs publically per page. Perfect for latest documentation, job postings, etc.
- waboremo 3y ago
  Depends what kind of documentation. General team docs? Yeah great those barely change. Same with job postings, outside of an "active" toggle, there's not much that changes for them. Everything else? You waste too much time dealing with notion lag. A lot of the integrations also suck and are far too limited in what they do. One final note on docs, one of the best moves in recent years is expressing difficult concepts through interactive content. Notion cannot handle this at all. Static or nothing on notion!
waboremo 3y ago
A couple reasons. It's operationally too slow, and when you're working on teams (larger than 1 per role), this makes notion a hassle to update. For devdocs, the larger developer community has already rallied around open source tools that provide easier management through github. The current sharing options are also not good enough to support that use case. Essentially, the more you update a notion page, the more unbearable it gets.