Notion

The best and worst of Notion

Comments: Overall it's a great app, I just wish it would be faster and also easier to navigate.

Pros:

Notion is an extremely flexible software. Thanks to their databases and multiple views like calendar, Kanban, tables and lists. I found it to be extremely intuitive and fun to use. I can definitely see how it could replace a google docs and be a central place for your team.

Cons:

So the big elephant in the room... Notion can be slow at times, especially when using it on my phone. I would spend a lot of effort just trying to switch between pages. When I would type in it I felt that my text was not in real time. Also on Mobile sometimes I couldn't highlight text due to a bug on their side. This goes against the productivity it is trying to create. Also the way it works with folders, it very quickly becomes far too many different places and I would need to think about where I need to put the specific note I'm working on, vs actually just writing the note. I think that it would be far better if notion stopped relying so much on folders and rather just made their search and internal linking more streamlined.

A more doesn't mean always a better

Comments: Like many others: I am a migrant-from-evernote-to-notion user.
So I really feel a difference. Evernote become with time a boring routine. You ended up konwing all what the software capacities without a horizon you can looking for. Evernote blog is a good resource but it is not enough for me.
The comparison with Evernote is critical for me. So I can tell you that Notion provide you all what Evernote offer plus a not-so-boring journey during using the product.

Pros:

Without doubt its ubiquity (they claim you can organise anything within it) is incredible.

Cons:

User experience is not that good. It is not comfort for the eyes. Too many options. Too many features. Need time to learn and use and you ended up reexplain that too many time to your team OR you must buy Khe course about that product. And it's something you should really consider into your calculation of what that software cost.

Alternatives Considered: Airtable and Evernote Teams

Reasons for Choosing Notion: Coping the new trend Notion Trying something new

Switched From: Evernote Teams

Reasons for Switching to Notion: Notion is the newer product in this niche so its team study well their competitors and make something avoid the weaknesses of the old products.

Best tool I use on a daily basis to ideate and take notes

Comments: The best app I use on a daily basis and couldn't live with out it

Pros:

The ability to ideate in the moment and document my thoughts and ideas in real-time through typing and dictation is amazing and being able to link to other pages and podcasts and videos as well as upload images and access an image library, just to mention a small number of the amazing features of this app that I use on a daily basis

Cons:

At this point I don't have the ability to search words in my uploaded handwritten paper notes

Alternatives Considered: Google Keep and Evernote Teams

Reasons for Choosing Notion: Evernote was not developing their features as quickly as Notion and Notion offered features and functionality that Evernote didn't have at the time

Switched From: Evernote Teams

Reasons for Switching to Notion: More features and functionality

Everyday note-taking, organization and brainstorming tool

Comments: So far it has been a great experience for me and my team. Notion has turned into an app that is always open on the computer, just like the email client.

Pros:

In our case as a digital assets and marketing company, we need to keep track of many clients and projects. The database feature in Notion allows us to create custom databases where we can filter, search, update and share easily with our clients.

Cons:

Maybe it's because of our business type, we don't use Notion for our own project management tasks. However, we discuss and collaborate every day in Notion to deploy our project management tasks in another tool.

Alternatives Considered: Obsidian

Reasons for Choosing Notion: Easiness of use and new features.

Switched From: Evernote Teams

Reasons for Switching to Notion: Notion is very user-friendly, and that's why our team start using it right away from the free version until we upgraded to the pro version.

Goodbye Google Docs, Hello Notion! - A story of a workplace leader

Comments: Pretty great thus far. As a workplace leader, our team uses Notion for our internal team to store office info for our various offices. Creating an office guide is extremely important for our culture, especially now with remote work. If anyone is traveling to an office and needs to know "where should I park? how do I get to the office? what is our lunch program?" all information is organized on Notion per office location. Employee experience is one of my biggest priorities, and Notion helps me organize all this information and keep our employees informed.

Pros:

Notion quite frankly does it all - it is an area to organize and store information, it provides a platform to collaborate with cross-functional partners, task-management for projects, plan internal events, ETC!

Cons:

At times, formatting text / pages can be difficult as a first time user, however once you get the hang of it its not too hard. I looked up a few youtube tutorial videos on how to format pages easier. Perhaps Notion could offer some instructional videos on formatting!