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by jklinger410 2453 days ago
Just wanted to chime in that Notion is amazing and completely solved my needs for: notes, to do, personal wiki, link storage, etc.

I hadn't even thought of using it as a public web page. Even better!

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Notion is great, but I cancelled my account immediately after finding out they use fullstory. Yes I can opt out, but the risk is too high for private notes, especially when using different browsers or multiple machines which I often do.

I should say that I have nothing against fullstory, we use it for our own saas application.

Edit: typo.

Agreed. For enterprise usages there are legal obligations around confidentiality that serve as the backstop for "what if something happens with the data that Fullstory or the app developer sees?"

For private usage, there is no good recourse. I'd rather not trust it anywhere near consumer apps.

For context, Fullstory basically records a replay of the state of the DOM when you use the app, which means the app developer can literally rewatch your entire usage session.

I don't know about fullstory, what is wrong with it?
I’m not sure either. I searched and found this, and now think the issue is with the level of tracking.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dark-side-of-replay-sessions...

Didn't know that they use them, but still, if you can opt-out, not a biggie for me.
I like how it looks but I’m never going to shovel my private data into some random startups silo. I already trust Apple Notes but the chance of it going away or them doing something bad with my data is pretty slim and it’s still locally in my backups.
Hehe indeed. I love how it's a big database with the ability to create different visualisations for tables and records.

E.g. you create a folder (DB Table) and then you create pages inside (DB records) Or you create a board(DB Table) and then you create Columns(DB Records) and tasks inside each column(DB Records with connections another table).

Would also be amazing to open their API, lots of integrations would come out of it.

Furthermore, based on CrunchBase, they are a small team with a seed fund[0].

0. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sugarbox

It's great for knowledge bases.

Plus, they allow direct export of any page to PDF so it has half-replaced Google docs for me.