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Notion is a greatest common denominator of the general form on how to make a successful company out of nothing really new or groundbreaking. It's no better tha

Notion is a greatest common denominator of the general form on how to make a successful company out of nothing really new or groundbreaking. It's no better than the alternatives, but invites a sort of appetite for using it that keeps it afloat and to any company mired in the complexity of their enterprise productivity solutions, offers a simple, one-stop-shop to everything, even if its promises are vacuous. > Create an "ecosystem" generic enough to potentially offer unlimited tacked on features and unlimited scope creep > Make it very minimalist and user friendly so there's no adoption cost > Create the impression that there's some ideal harmony of workflow available to any user who uses it the "right way". Apple heavily leans into this in their marketing. If it doesn't work for you then you must not be using it right

calvinmorrison 4y ago
What it gives is a step up from spreadsheets for managing everything from projects to customers. You can build a trivial CRM with a few tables. Earlier today I thought, I need a quickie CRM. Each customer has contacts, Each customer has logged events (phone calls). I could build a CRUD app to do this. I built it in notion in about 10 minutes. And the thing is - a company like mine already has things like internal portals to do all sorts of stuff. Instead of a business admin asking the developers for a new field on X, he can just go build it out - but it has two killer features to excel/docs 1. Global search. I cant stand having a million different excel sheets where nothing is linked. Even if notion search can be slow - typing in something and getting an answer is a breath of relief 2. Has way better structured data, templates and plugins out of the box ( I can just do remote data to jira, bitbucket, etc).
- skinnymuch 4y ago
  Are you making a page per customer or the database feature? Would Airtable work better for this? I use Airtable for stuff like this personally. I use Notion for some simple work stuff too like as a CMS

calvinmorrison 4y ago

What it gives is a step up from spreadsheets for managing everything from projects to customers. You can build a trivial CRM with a few tables. Earlier today I thought, I need a quickie CRM. Each customer has contacts, Each customer has logged events (phone calls). I could build a CRUD app to do this. I built it in notion in about 10 minutes. And the thing is - a company like mine already has things like internal portals to do all sorts of stuff. Instead of a business admin asking the developers for a new field on X, he can just go build it out - but it has two killer features to excel/docs 1. Global search. I cant stand having a million different excel sheets where nothing is linked. Even if notion search can be slow - typing in something and getting an answer is a breath of relief 2. Has way better structured data, templates and plugins out of the box ( I can just do remote data to jira, bitbucket, etc).

skinnymuch 4y ago
Are you making a page per customer or the database feature? Would Airtable work better for this? I use Airtable for stuff like this personally. I use Notion for some simple work stuff too like as a CMS