Curious to see how any of you use Notion, or if you’ve used it and moved onto something else.
I have used it for two years. I use it as a to-do/life dashboard mostly, and do a full refresh (of art, habit tracking, layout, monthly goals) each month. I also use it for small business organization, keeping my business budget on google sheets now though because of the lack of encryption.
I use it as the basis of my link bucket, but I am looking to eventually host that properly on my site. I just am still figuring out 11ty and may need to scale back to something more at my knowledge level.
I love it, I just wish it was a little faster and encrypted. I am curious about something like Obsidian for notes/links/etc.
If you use it, what do you use it for? If you used it an moved on, what are you using now?
i hold personal grudge towards notion. they bought and killed off skiff. skiff was a great way to have custom @domain.ext emails without running own mail servers and it was free! i am not sure about their other services, but personally if i hold a grudge towards a certain company i refuse to use their services.
i cant judge notion for notiom, since i’ve never used it, but yeah i hold a fat grudge
i do very on and off!! i tried to use it as a life dashboard but i tend to struggle with keeping up with updating stuff like that (and my phone reminders has become more of my life center), though i tend to use it very heavily for documenting my commission/freelance sales, and for project management stuff like having a to-do task board + other things for game projects (easier to stuff asset links + references + inspirations there vs having it scattered over multiple sites)
i get super super into notion for like a month every year, and then it always falls off. i love it as a way to organize my notes and thoughts in a collected space, but i can never quite keep up with it. plus i get frustrated with making it pretty, and templates are never quite what i want… i’m unsure. something about it doesn’t click for me.
i do like organizing by classes and stuff as a uni student.
i know they aren’t really the same thing at all, but for notes, i much prefer obsidian. but honestly a mix of the two may work quite nicely for me.
it might be time for me try notion again though this is the time of year i start needing a productivity boost. and it is fun for a little bit each time for me.
Notion used to be my main note-taking software for a while, but I have switched to Obsidian for that purpose and am glad that I made the switch, because as time went on, I was increasingly less of a fan of Notion’s lack of offline mode out of the box. Notion needing internet connection to use might make it convenient for syncing to multiple devices, also it also made Notion much more difficult to use if you’re in a situation where you lack good internet connection.
Not to mention, Obsidian’s notes being Markdown files that stores in your local device means I can easily use a different Markdown editor to edit notes from my Obsidian vault. Convenience of being able to use an alternative editor to edit a note without exporting and importing is not something I can say for Notion.
My only reason for using Notion at this point is to share certain databases to the public with links, since otherwise I would just put them on my own website.
I don’t blame you. I had heard of Skiff and even considered using their email service before it was acquired by Notion.
I have an account with them but I don’t use it very often. I feel like it would be beneficial to use it, but not necessarily moreso than any other note taking system. I don’t really take notes anymore, and I journal in a paper notebook, so I’m not sure what I would use it for. (I’m sure someone would have ideas though lol.)
I use it! But mostly to write dumb journals to myself. It seems like it has a lot of great features, but I’m not really sure where to even get started using any of the extra stuff.
Mine is a dashboard - I use it as the first place I look on my computer. My to-do list, monthly goals, daily habit tracker, and a view of my google calendar (my last real google dependency) are all on one page.
I also use it for pages I need to make and publish quickly for my art job - I can throw together a good looking notion document and hit publish for an art sale or whatever. I used it extensively during wedding planning and I plan my weekly business schedule in it.
I find if I don’t make a Notion dashboard really useful, I won’t look at it. So I embed everything I need in that one page and it stopped me from having to open three or four tabs in the morning. It’s slow and clunky in many ways though, but it has been fun to build up
i use it, mostly as a journal, and my other part ceriae uses it on another account as a wardrobe tracker. i dont know if i want to stay on notion though, they’ve been really pushing AI for a while and i’ve been getting kind of put off by that :(