[palata]

Notion is some kind of Kanban board, isn't it? I think the point of the parent is that such boards were not invented by Notion, and writing a webapp that essentially allows you to move post-its between columns is not exactly innovative. Which is fine, if it works. We don't always need innovation (actually most of the time we don't). Notion just seems to be super popular for just being a webapp of post-its.

[setopt]

> Notion is some kind of Kanban board, isn't it?

No, it’s not. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it has a Kanban board.

It’s a proprietary cloud-based wiki with support for every more or less mainstream feature (multimedia, databases, AI integration, collaboration, etc.). It’s a bit sluggish and doesn’t have a good mobile story, but if you don’t mind the proprietary aspect, it’s otherwise a polished product.

[crabmusket]

Notion has a very flexible data model. We use it mainly for documents, but it also can contain databases, which can be viewed as kanban boards, timelines, etc.

https://www.notion.com/blog/data-model-behind-notion

It's really nice to have one place to go for all kinds of content, but that content can link within itself, @mention other pieces of content, etc.

It can (and does) turn into a huge mess if you let it, of course. But that's down to team culture.

[kmacdough]

It's much more generic than that. It's highly flexible and intuitive hierarchical information organization software. At least that's how I'd describe it.

The innovation isn't the organized structures themselves either, but rather the intuitive non-technical interface for rapidly and concurrently updating both the information and structure. You can build a lot of Jira-like features but it doesn't dictate much of how you do that.

It does have a highly customizable Kanban view of their more generic database structure where each object is itself a page which can be filled with anything and everything else Notion has to offer (including more databases). Databases can have many views, structured as calendars, tables and a couple other forms I don't use, and each view can have its own set of filters, etc.

It kinda looked at Jira+Confluence and asked "what's the simplest fundametal software which can be used to build everything they have to offer"

[fmbb]

Notion is a wiki. It’s like Confluence but good.

Maybe they have tickets and boards as well? Even better!

[kyawzazaw]

You misunderstand what notion is