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by TheDong 628 days ago
notion doesn't have normal text files.

You can click "export to markdown" on a notion page, you can click "import from markdown", but those two markdown dialects are totally incompatible. Most of the time notion can't even read what it exported.

The notion web editor for me has very noticeable lag, so I really want to just be able to write some text somewhere to represent a notion table or whatever, but there's simply no supported way to do that I'm aware of.

I mean, it's fine, using a i7 core at 100% at all times just to produce text at a 2 second delay is totally fine for a text editor, I'm sure notion's doing its best.

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Yes. I use Notion (or Logseq or any other Electron-based note-taking apps) as a filing cabinet. I cannot type in it. The typing latency is too much.