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Many tools that predate Notion open pages in "edit" mode: Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, Google Docs, Etherpad, Dropbox Paper, TextEdit, Nodepad.exe... We want t

• tm-guimaraes 3y ago
  but those required clicking on save to actually make a change.
• TeMPOraL 3y ago
  Microsoft Word no longer does it, at least not for a typical experience - that is, opening a file you sourced from elsewhere (Internet, or your company's Exchange server, or e-mail attachment, or ...). Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will all open the document in "Protected View", indicated by an ugly yellow bar above the document with an [Enable Editing] button in the middle. Sure, it's done for security reasons, but for actual user experience, it's almost equivalent to opening all files in read-only mode by default.
• lopkeny12ko 3y ago
  This would be fine except for the fact that all changes are instantly committed in realtime, which is such an incredible usability antipattern. If Notion had to be everything-editable-by-default, make it so that changes need to be explicitly committed and saved, much the same way one would do with Git. Otherwise it becomes impossible to track down these kinds of accidental mutations to the document, much less even realize that they have occurred.
• lopkeny12ko 3y ago
  Also, pointing to existing tools with glaring usability problems is not a justification for creating yet another tool with those same usability problems, amplified.