[dcchambers]

I generally think Notion is a pretty great product but IMO it's the poster child for "jack of all trades, master of none."

Yes, lots of things can be done in Notion, but most of them are done better elsewhere with dedicated tools.

I think it's core functionality as a team wiki (aka a confluence replacement) is the one thing it does best and better than most competitors...

[bastawhiz]

That's sort of the draw. I don't need the best bug tracker, I need a bug tracker that I can get pretty much whatever I need to do done in. I don't need the best wiki, I just need to be able to write reasonably formatted docs with syntax highlighting and links. Notion explicitly isn't the best at any of these things, it's maybe an 8/10 on the best of days. But it's priced at an 8/10 and the search works across the whole damn thing, and nothing that it does is really all that bad.

On the other hand, Confluence does really just one thing. But it doesn't do it especially well, and there's lots of things that it can do that are bolted on haphazardly. Go ahead, try to embed that Loom video. I double dog dare you to try to configure it to show Git commits from GitHub. IMO something that isn't good that's purpose built is actively worse than something that does everything pretty okay.