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by irishcule 2827 days ago
How did you find the learning curve with notion? I found it on here a few days ago and thought it looked amazing, gave it a few days trial but now I feel like I am just wasting time with it trying to do the things that I want.

Simple things like not being able to put different colors on text in the same block or even just putting a simple table (no not a database) into a block have put me off it. Also it is difficulty (re: impossible) to copy and paste notes over from another application without it getting all messed up.
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lhl 2827 days ago
There are definitely some rough edges - like you mentioned, copy and paste is awful (tbf this is very hard to implement, it's all edge cases), there's no web clipper yet, and for me, personally, I get annoyed by the '/' shortcut (also the search has gotten slower and slower (not sure if this is due to growing corpus or other issues) and there are some other niggles (not doing a great job auto-expanding where you're nested when you jump to a page for example), however they are consistently improving the product in lots of very noticeable ways: https://www.notion.so/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba...

And it does really the few things that I most care about:

* Seamlessly syncs/accessible on all my devices (I wish it did better offline access though)

* Has a rich, modern WYSIWYG editor (w/ markdown shortcuts, supports attachments and different types of embeds, comments/etc)

* Has a tree hierarchy on the left - I would prefer faceted nested collections (you can't put a note in two folders), but it's much more effective than single-pane organization like GDocs or Dropbox Paper

I've used a few the tables a bit and it's pretty rudimentary - if you don't need the organization, from what you've outlined, honestly it sounds like GDocs still might be what you need (I've always had a lot of GSheets I link out to from my notes - sucks it's not all in one place, but for notetaking, I think the more important thing is that I have a way to organize/find pointers to things, which GDocs completely fails at).

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