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by jressey 1832 days ago
Our team chose it and I was pretty on the fence because wikis have existed for more than a decade and I had always considered the problem solved.

However, engineers like using it and that is invaluable. I can't explain it, I guess cause it 'feels' 'new.' It is pretty fun to use on a Mac, and the results are aesthetically pleasing. I understand there are some pretty sophisticated things you can do with the API, and we are already talking about tying it to PRs to make release notes.

Pretty promising all-in-all, but I wouldn't have picked it over and established wiki solution.

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In my experience, getting engineers to not merely tolerate but like a collaborative tool is absolutely invaluable.
Notion is alright for collaboration, but I don't really like it for anything else.

The search is so slow that I'd rather just have all of our technical documentation as a Markdown files in a Git repo than in Notion.

I moved to Notion from StackEdit (because it's basicaly abandoned and I had bugs editing on mobile) and I really miss storing all data in git repository (private GitHub repo).