[ckorhonen]

I’m on the fence after using it for about 4 months. Initially I was drawn to Notion due to the features, templates etc. - it made me feel like I was running a legit business, with sections for company vision, expense reports, meeting minutes etc!

The multifunctional nature reminded me a lot of Lotus Notes, empowering users to build new functionality and database (not a bad thing, though leads to silos and lock in).

Two main things ended up frustrating me about Notion that I went back to Bear and other tools:

- For pure text editing some of the shortcuts drove me insane. The syntax was kind of like markdown but not quite, and the shortcuts for moving between levels of indentation were different from pretty much every other app I had used. The rich content was cool, but ran into so many issues with embeds only working on certain platforms, and rendering blank or crashing the app on others. - It was surprisingly easy for team members to screw things up. I’m talking about cluttering tables with blank records, moving documents around and causing them to disappear into the ether for other users. There just didn’t seem to be very good controls or audit trails.