Notion

What do you like best about the product?

I really like how Notion makes it easy for us to reflect back whenever we need something, ensuring that tasks get completed even when I'm away. It's great that it's live, allowing me to see when someone is working on it while I'm looking at it. The ease of setup was also impressive, as I was able to understand and set it up within three to five minutes. Additionally, I appreciate that it helps me remember tasks when I'm walking and checking up on things throughout the day.

What do you dislike about the product?

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What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Notion for organizational skills, taking pictures of units, saving passwords, sharing with my team, and managing daily to-do lists. It helps me ensure tasks are completed, even when I'm away, and I can see real-time updates as we work.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that Notion lets me run my entire engineering workflow as one connected system instead of using a pile of disconnected tools. Being able to link databases together makes a big difference; my meeting notes, Jira work log, daily standup ledger, and onboarding goals all reference each other. Decisions made in a design review flow through to the affected ticket and the standup report. AI Meeting Notes is my favorite feature—auto-transcription with a structured Action Items summary helps me capture every decision from meetings, even those I didn't fully follow live. It's been invaluable for learning the domain. The databases with rich-text pages inside each row are also great; every ticket and meeting becomes both a structured record and a full document. My 'What I learned' field on Jira tickets has become a real personal knowledge base. Views and sorting allow me to keep a report-ready, newest-first daily log so my standup prep is basically done for me. Notion is flexible enough to model my workflow rather than forcing me into someone else's.

What do you dislike about the product?

A few concrete pain points. The biggest one for anyone driving Notion programmatically is rate limiting -- hitting 429 errors when querying a handful of small databases in parallel. For an automated daily workflow this is the single biggest reliability problem; I've had to cache state and skip reads to work around it. It makes automation feel fragile. The second is AI Meeting Notes titles -- every note is titled literally 'Meeting' with no further context. The actual meeting name only lives in the parent page, so you can't tell what a note is without opening it. Surfacing the real meeting title (and showing attendees as names rather than opaque internal user IDs) would be a big quality-of-life improvement. Third is the API update pattern -- updating a row's properties and its body content requires two separate API calls; there's no atomic 'update everything at once.' Creating a page can do both, but editing can't. That doubles write volume and compounds the rate limiting problem. Finally, Google Drive and external embeds aren't readable via the API -- I couldn't pull in a linked Google Doc through the integration and had to reconstruct it from fragments. None of these are dealbreakers; the system is still worth it. But for anyone trying to keep Notion current via automation rather than manual upkeep, those are the friction points that cost real time.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Notion collapses fragmentation by integrating meeting notes and decisions with Jira tickets and daily standups in one system. It also helps with memory and proof-of-work through AI Meeting Notes, aiding me in reconstructing meeting details and building a searchable knowledge base.

What do you like best about the product?

The organization. I need structure to keep up with my adhd brain. I love that I can add links or any other relevant information.

What do you dislike about the product?

I have no negative feedback. There is nothing to dislike.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's giving me a place to write down all of my scattered notes and ideas in a way that is organized and easy to navigate.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Notion is its flexibility. It combines notes, documentation, task management, and databases into a single workspace, making it easy to organize both personal and professional information. I also appreciate how customizable it is -whether I’m creating project documentation, tracking tasks, or building knowledge bases, I can structure everything exactly the way I need without switching between multiple tools.

What do you dislike about the product?

While Notion is incredibly flexible, that flexibility can also make it overwhelming at first. Setting up an efficient workspace often takes time, and larger pages or databases can sometimes feel slower to load. I would also like to see stronger offline capabilities and more advanced automation features built directly into the platform.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Notion solves the problem of scattered information by bringing notes, documentation, project planning, tasks, and knowledge management into a single workspace. Instead of juggling multiple apps, I can keep everything organized in one place, making it easier to collaborate, track progress, and find information quickly. This has improved my productivity, reduced context switching, and helped me stay more organized in both my work and personal projects.

What do you like best about the product?

The flexibility in building databases and using AI agents to manage them

What do you dislike about the product?

Not much, it takes a little while to get used to the set up and functionality

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing our sales pipeline and integrating into our sales engagement tools. We use the AI agents to enrich data, manage the pipeline, etc. The performance has been excellent and really helped us with staying organized. I also like that the AI notion chat can help you build. It's a good onboarding experience

What do you like best about the product?

I like how Notion is able to organize things quickly, and the feature that allows you to have meetings within the projects themselves is particularly useful. Also, the transcription feature works really well. The initial setup of Notion was very easy, and I loved it.

What do you dislike about the product?

Organizing your meetings needs to be improved. It keeps them outside of the project at first and I have to move them in.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Notion to organize meeting notes, next steps, summaries of meetings, and streamline project plans and requirements.

What do you like best about the product?

The integration with zoom that allows me to join and transcribe meetings automatically.

What do you dislike about the product?

It is a little difficult to organize notes. Sometimes I drag them into a page and it doesn't actually move them into the subpage so I have to manually click the 3 dots select move and then select the page that I want to move it under.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows me to not worry about taking notes during meetings so I can give the attendees my full attention.

What do you like best about the product?

My favorite thing about Notion is how effectively it brings together all the places where people share information at my company. It seamlessly unifies meeting minutes and transcripts, project management trackers and checklists, policy/procedure/SOP/guideline documentation, company newsletters or center-of-excellence hubs, and more. Being able to move through all of those information sources in one platform—and also build automations that leverage them—has revolutionized the way I work, cutting out a lot of the meaningless noise and friction I used to deal with when juggling 5+ different tools.

The integrations are also extremely helpful. Being able to automatically connect my Google calendar to Notion for meeting recordings + transcription has been super helpful. The agentic workflows for alerting on tasks that are coming due has helped me balance deadlines.

The pricing model for Notion was attractive for my company, because we previously had been relying on multiple tools for features that Notion could provide all in one platform. This strategy has allowed us to consolidate tooling. Additionally, the support model for the implementation process has appeared to be quite smooth.

What do you dislike about the product?

My one complaint about Notion so far is related to the UI / formatting on documentation. Sometimes, it's not inherently user friendly or visually appealing the way documents are formatted in our team pages space, especially when they were imported from another source first. I have had to spend a good bit of time formatting and editing documents for readability and user-friendliness before they were ready for publication after our migration.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

So far, Notion has been solving the following problems and use cases for me really well.

Project management: Creating go-live checklists, OKR trackers, and burndown/work-management documentation has been a huge value-add. This is especially true given the integrations and the ability to tag and notify people about the work they need to be doing, link out to other sources of information and documentation, and keep everything connected.

Record keeping and information capture: The automatic meeting recordings and transcription features have been amazing for me. I’ve found that the accuracy and level of detail in Notion’s meeting transcriptions far exceeds what I’ve seen from other competing products (Zoom AI companion, Granola, etc.). The speed and overall performance of the transcription feature has also been impressive—the transcript renders in a very short amount of time, and the accuracy, detail, and amount of information captured has helped me pinpoint action items and clearly identify the proper DRI. Reliability has been on point as well: once I enabled the integration, it has successfully turned on and recorded/captured a transcript for every meeting I joined, with the same level of accuracy each time.

What do you like best about the product?

I like Notion because it works well as a knowledge management and project management tool. It helps me organize notes, tasks, documents, and workflows in one place, and the templates and flexible databases make it easy to customize for different needs.

What do you dislike about the product?

I dislike that Notion can feel a bit overwhelming at first because there are so many features and customization options. It also sometimes takes time to set up a workspace properly before it becomes truly useful.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Notion helps solve the problem of having notes, tasks, documents, and project details spread across different tools. It benefits me by keeping everything organized in one place, making it easier to track work, find information, and stay productive.

What do you like best about the product?

It feels like a “second brain” for me—more than just another piece of tech in my stack.

What do you dislike about the product?

Dragging, dropping, and resizing charts, lists, and other elements on a page can be frustrating at times.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Knowledge management. I needed more RAM, and this does it. It solves the problem of who said what, when, and where, and what happened—past, present, and future. It’s all in one place now.