| > "I don't understand why anyone thinks that seeing and editing format codes all over the place is good UX in 2025." Two neatly separated editing, or one editing plus one preview, mode(s) don't equate to "all over the place". > "But my main problem with Notion and other document systems is that invariably dissolve into the equivalent of a hoarder's house, full of outdated, hard-to-find garbage deeply buried under other garbage." I have never used Notion. But if said program does support good enough search as well as tagging functionality (an essential of any KM tool to be considered at least decent), then the "hard-to-find and deeply buried" is on the user for being incompetent at managing (meta) data... which is often enough an inherited problem, e. g. through bad company policies or practices. And if the tool, in 2025, does not support such essential functionality, the user is obviously also (at least partly) at fault: for choosing it. > "That's because Notion only has hierarchy." Easy to avoid as there have been lots of freeform knowledge management tools out there... since the likes of Lotus Agenda. In my experience their freeform-style makes them unpopular with most people for it takes... some... effort (e. g. discipline) to make proper use of them. Such software obviously has to be adapted for any corporate use, which makes them rather unpopular in that space. See below. > "Where I work, any attempt to carefully "garden" pages is futile because there is no discipline enforced by the tool." The garden's consistency and associated enforcement ("discipline") is the job of the gardener(s), not the tool. You don't like Notion's hierarchy-only structure... but then complain about "poorly thought-out folder hierarchies" of the people that use it at your workplace. I mean... whatcha think is gonna happen when you introduce your crowd to powerful freeform KM tools... in a structure that is hierachical (your workplace) and conducts its affairs accordingly? XD |