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by dogas 1865 days ago
I was a huge Notion fan. However, the long sync times were driving me nuts. I have since moved to inkdrop (https://www.inkdrop.app/) because it's much better for my use case:

* I can write Markdown notes. I've only wanted to write markdown notes.

* The syncing is incredibly fast because it's using an existing technology purpose-built for syncing (CouchDB)

* I can bring my own CouchDB and not have my data locked in

* Has a mobile app that works well

* There is a "vim mode" and that makes me happy.
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nojvek 1865 days ago
The big attractor to Notion for me is the All-in-on workspace idea. It's a table-database, it's a wiki, it's a kanban board, it's a team calendar, it's a project gallery, it's a blog.

Tables can have wiki notes, which can have tables. The recursive nature works very well for organizing your knowledgebase and having an entire org work together.

The things I hate about notion.

1) pressing / anywhere opens the menu. So annoying.

2) It's live collaboration on code is awful. We end up using codesandbox and then copy-pasting back.

3) It looses and new edits every now and then. Their sync needs work.

4) No way to proper version control documents and have a pull-request/suggestion like model for editing authoritative docs.

The other player in the same market is https://coda.io. They go quite a bit further than notion in terms of formulas and reference tables.

With both Coda and Notion, I feel I seldom have to use google docs.

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IceWreck 1864 days ago
> It's a table-database, it's a wiki, it's a kanban board, it's a team calendar, it's a project gallery, it's a blog.

So what does it do that something like gitlab or phabricator cannot do ?

And if you are willing to consider different products for different things then you have dokuwiki/xwiki/wikijs/bookstack for wiki and multiple popular project management tools like kanboard/focalboard.

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kwinten 1864 days ago
> So what does it do that something like gitlab or phabricator cannot do ?

Gitlab is great. Their wiki is absolute shit.

Notion just has a mostly really great user experience for writing notes, adding some tables or screenshots, moving them around, etc.

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xvilka 1864 days ago
Does it support teams like Notion?
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