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What Is Notion?

Notion is the all-in-one workspace for notes, project management, documents, and collaboration. Tens of thousands of teams and companies around the world use it to keep their employees informed and working together in one place.

By bringing all work and knowledge together and making it highly customizable, Notion creates focus and transparency, while consolidating tools, saving time, and driving more productivity for teams of all sizes.

Who Uses Notion?

Notion is a tool for teams and companies that want a better way to manage knowledge, projects, documents, and collaboration. Individuals can also use the product for notes and organizing their lives.

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Reviews of Notion

Average score

Overall
4.7
Ease of Use
4.3
Customer Service
4.4
Features
4.6
Value for Money
4.6

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Olivia
Olivia
Student in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Games, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Good for Note taking and More

5.0 2 months ago

Comments: I like Notion it's very easy for me to use. I can plan basically anything out and if I need any help I can use the templates or go to the community for help.

Pros:

I like how everything is very ease of use. I look how I'm able to customize the text to suit my needs. I like how I'm able to embed different things into notion. The AI features are a nice touch.

Cons:

The only thing I really don't like is when I get updates for pages and a different workspace it will always just be a mark there until I finally check okay. It's just a peppy but I wish I can just snooze it or just press a mark all read button.

Serge
Designer in UK
Design, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Notion help organise chaos

5.0 3 weeks ago New

Comments: My overall experience with Notion has been transformative. It's a digital Swiss Army knife for task management—complex yet precise, and endlessly adaptable. Once past the initial learning phase, it feels like an extension of one's cognitive process, neatly organizing thoughts, tasks, and projects. Despite some minor drawbacks, Notion has been a cornerstone tool for personal organization and team collaboration.

Pros:

What I liked most about Notion is its unparalleled customization capabilities. It empowers you to build a personal or professional workspace tailored precisely to your needs. The blend of databases, kanban boards, wikis, calendars, and reminders all in one cohesive interface streamlines task management and promotes productivity. The collaborative features and real-time updates enhance team synergy, making it an invaluable tool for collective project management.

Cons:

What I liked least about Notion can be its steep learning curve for new users. The very flexibility that makes it powerful can also be overwhelming at first, and it may take time to fully leverage its capabilities.

Quishea
Intake Coordinator in US
Hospital & Health Care, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Good for Document Generation

3.0 3 weeks ago New

Pros:

Notion has a lot of cool things going for it. First off, it's super flexible and you can use it for notes, tasks, projects, basically anything. The interface is clean and user-friendly, making it easy to organize and find stuff. Collaboration is a breeze with real-time editing and comments, making it great for team projects. Plus, the ability to embed all sorts of content, from calendars to videos, adds a dynamic touch to your pages. It's like a one-stop-shop for staying organized and getting things done.

Cons:

Notion is awesome, but it might take a bit to get the hang of it. Some things can be a bit tricky, especially when you're just starting. If you're using it on your phone, it's good, but not as smooth as on a computer. The free version is cool, but you get even more cool stuff if you pay. And if you've got loads of data in there, it could slow down a bit. It slowed down a lot at my last job.

Grace
Grace
Project Manager in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Retail, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Using Notion to get organized and have all my stuff in one place

4.0 3 months ago

Comments: Extremely adaptable table and database layouts. Used it as my primary method of note-taking and journaling. I like it better than both OneNote and EverNote combined. One of, if not the greatest, note-taking apps available.

Pros:

Simple to input text and numbers. Terrific shortcuts for a variety of jobs. Excellent for including and embedding media. The app allows me to quickly photograph handwritten notes and store them in a folder I can sort through on my computer later.

Cons:

Don't try to reinvent the wheel when it comes to table cell entry; if I click into a cell and start typing, it will replace the existing content (just like Excel does), and choosing cells is far more cumbersome than in Excel. The process of making a template is not the most straightforward, and it took me some time to master it.

Anastasia
Head of Operations in Austria
Financial Services Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Notion - best tool for keeping track of things in your work and personal life

5.0 2 months ago

Comments: As a scrum master, I use Notion for backlog refinement and project management - it's always open on one of my screens. We customised it to our needs and manage multiple teamspaces with their own projects and tasks within one platform. I also use Notion in my personal projects and casual note-taking and can't imagine my life without it.

Pros:

I like the versatility and flexibility of Notion. It can be customised endlessly to create a workspace that works best for you. We were able to create a perfect system for task and project that suits our needs. I also like that I can add tasks and different resources to my Favourites, and they appear in the sidebar, so I'm able to easily fetch what I need. It's also easy to track any changes and comments in the Updates tab, so you don't miss if someone left a comment or assigned something to you. Another small but fantastic feature is being able to insert code and choose the formatting for it. We're a software-heavy company, so storing and sharing pieces of code is essential.

Cons:

It's hard to find points that I don't like, but perhaps the different views and layouts could be made more intuitive. Sometimes it can take a while to figure out the best way to organise data.