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Notion

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    joel a.

It's the easiest way to focus on what matters

  • September 06, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Thanks to the power of its databases, Notion allows me to quickly find any information, even if it's from a long time ago. This gives me peace of mind and allows me to move forward in other areas of my work without stress.
What do you dislike about the product?
Databases are currently very powerful, and having so many options can be overwhelming. It would be good if they could be simplified a bit without losing power and customization capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion saves my time when i need to search any important document of my company, also search personals documents, help me to organize my projects.
Also help me to manage inventory of products, manage important payments of services and be creative, increase the speed when writing my ideas.


    Felipe C.

A fresh look on database organization.

  • September 02, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I've been using Notion in my current company, and it's the most intuitive database tool I've ever seen. Notion helps our team organize work and projects and it is great for brainstorming new ideas as well. There are so many different uses to it, I have only explored a small part of it.
What do you dislike about the product?
The amount of pages that are created can be a tricky thing if teams don't know exactly how to track and organize them. At least Notion is creating new ways to organize groups and pages. One thing I don't like is the fact that some changes are sort of "imposed" like the new default split screen view.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion helps me brainstorm and keep track of new ideas. It also helps my team keep our database organized and easy to find.


    Joe D.

A flexible, cost effective, well documented solution for all of your organisational leads

  • September 01, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Notion is easy to get started and is seriously well documented, so for the most part you can usually find what you need to know on Youtube or other tutorials. It's easier to link databases together than you would think and there are some good templates out there.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not so much the functionality, but to get the best out of Notion you really do need to understand the basics of databases. I'm not really a database expert so I often have to look things up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a small business owner and consultant I find most of the 'off the peg' systems are too feature rich and complicated for my requirements. I'm using Notion to fulfill a lot of the functions that I'd spread over multiple tools like timesheets, CRM and project management all within one environment.


    TORLEY _.

Notion makes the process of going from rough notes to polished docs fast and effective!

  • September 01, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
A colleague turned me on to trying out Notion, and from that very seedling of a first page I edited, I've used Notion extensively and continued to bloom with it — even written the equivalent of a few novels in it. It's compiled features I've used in other tools, and made them a lot more elegant and streamlined.

Historically, I'd often get frustrated with how Google Docs, Zendesk, and others mangled my formatting, with unpleasant errors galore. By copypasting the same stuff into Notion, I could essentially clean up that detritus. And there's NO separate "publish" step, a page has live-editing! (You can always do a "staging/test" on a separate page, if need be.) Plus, making pages public or targeting shares is super-easy.

My business uses of Notion include project management for task tracking (via card columns), comprehensive user documentation (and the process of translating it from internal ➜ external consumption), and presenting ideas. On the home front, my wife and I also used it to write and edit our wedding vows, record proof of stuff needing repair, and so on. In short, there were times I was getting involved with another tool, then went — "Why, Notion can already do that! Just use Notion!" And one of my favorite uses of Notion is keeping track of my musical productions, serializing them with annotations, so I'm clear on what's almost done, what needs to be delivered, and what I might just be mucking around with.

I get excited at new Notion features adding value (tip: stay tuned to https://www.notion.so/releases !) and not overcomplicating the mix. I've seen other tools where the balance tipped a certain way and obfuscation got in the way of a good thing. So its growth trajectory over the years has been promising.

I like how I can drag audio files directly into Notion. I'm disappointed at what other tools (like Nuclino and Miro) to date still don't support us sound citizens.

The use of emojis, colors, and visual elements makes pages a lot more colorful and memorable — and dare I say, even fun!

Overall and importantly, Notion makes it easy for different departments to get involved, including team members that consider themselves "non-technical". It hasn't raised hackles like other tools with a jagged learning curve that are "unintuitive".

The backup feature is reassuring, something you don't think about going in, but you'll need it down the line if your data is even remotely precious to you.

Support has usually been quite helpful to me, and my many questions across time. Sometimes they'll overcomplicate matters by asking for unnecessary info on a small obvious thing... but I know it's just because they want to learn more. Better to err on the side of overcommunication, right? :D
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish we could add more custom styling — not going crazy, but custom colors with exact RGB values for text and solid background colors would make a big difference with matching branding. I know there are 3rd-party tools that aim to address these needs and things like custom domain names, but having it integrated seems really fundamental.

Also, when I last checked, there wasn't a way to see original code used for IFRAMES, which seems terribly clunky, since it means I have to store that code somewhere else (like in a separate Notion page), or risk it being obfuscated. This matters for anyone using embeds like Bandcamp and SoundCloud widgets with custom parameters.

But on the whole, Notion has been awesome!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
See the "What do you like best?" section above, where I address that. To summarize, even though I've used it for many things (just about all the main advertised use cases!): at present, Notion helps me organize and retrieve loose pieces of data in an approachable and neat way, like turning various Slack messages into a fully-formed help article, and keeping my projects moving forward.


    Computer & Network Security

Amazing Productivity Software

  • September 01, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Notion is a must productivity software for businesses or students. I use it as note-taking software for my study (Computer Science); the thing I love most is that you can create as many databases as you want, and it is possible to do a lot of operations with the data.
What do you dislike about the product?
The part I don't like is that it is not as famous as other productivity software that offers less. It doesn't have many features, but I am sure the developer will add them in the following months.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use it as note-taking in my university path. I'm a computer science student, and it helps me to create tables with automatic functions and roadmaps for my projects


    Shaun B.

Very simple at times, but then also needlessly complex at others.

  • September 01, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Notion is by far the easiest way to get information presented on screen in a good looking and easy to manage format that allows for collaborative editing by multiple people at the same time.

It's very easy to drop different media types and links into your documents and have Notion simply auto transform it.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no way to export audit logs to automatically for security visibility.

Working with databases and tables inside Notion is cumbersome and there also isn't any simple way to link different pages to each other.

Each page is completely stand-alone unlike some other platforms that allow interlinking with views.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion makes collaboration between multiple teams and persons very simple and straight forward in real-time while also making it look good quite simply.

We use it across the business as an Intranet of sorts, storing our processes, documentation and SOP's as well as IT self-help guides for easy user access.

External sharing also works really well.


    Vasantha R.

Notion for PM/ Task Management Needs

  • August 31, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Integration of AI into PRDs, documents, tasks have optimised a lot on time to complete and more to near perfection. Blends best of AI into your workflows
What do you dislike about the product?
No major dislikes yet. Notion suits perfect for small to large teams especially for hardware companies which requires strong product management tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Task management
Goals Tracking
Template driven document and data management


    Yash W.

An amazing platform to manage your work and schedule

  • August 31, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The notion is not just an ordinary note-taking platform. It has some incredible features that we want like scheduling tasks, email notifications, customizing and sharing pages, collaboration, etc. Notion has been keeping track of the requirements of its user and making sure they add them in their updates. It is best to note down everything you want, from simple note-taking to complex databases. You can build anything and everything and the ability to customize and share it with a collaborative touch makes it one of the best platforms for note taking.
What do you dislike about the product?
One major thing I believe notion should add is drawing on the pages. We cannot draw or annotate anything on the pages. It is just typing. You cannot customize the page much, there's no way to change the color of the page. Also, it would have been great if the web URL could have started with our username so that we could convert it to our website.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion has increased productivity and helped cut down time with its awesome features that help in note-taking. Also its integration with Slack and features like import and export make it easier to work with your content and manage it properly. Also, its price is decent and it is worth the features you get.


    Shreya S.

A software which helps you to do multiple activities under one roof.

  • August 07, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Notion is very useful for takeing meeting notes, create to-do lists, and plan my daily work on marketing projects. I think it's one of the wonderfully tidy and simple to use. I've only been using it for a week, but I already know I am going to be switching to paid vision. Notion is amazingly flexible to use. The best part is that I can share my notes and docs to anyone and I can also monitor what access they must have. For a missy people like me this tool is god saver as it maintain and organize everything at one place and the work which we do also looks need and clean. UI /UX design of the software is amazing, and the app and website version both work increbility amazing.
What do you dislike about the product?
With notion I only dislike one thing which bothers me at the start and also sometimes know that is I find it challenging to navigate the tools and some amazing features it provide.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me to maintain numerous meeting notes in one place, it helps me to keep the track of the work have have to do, which I am doing and which I have already completed, It helps me to prepare organisation notes which I have to share with entire organisation, It helps me to prioritize my work and mentain the record which needs to be done first and which at last and its the main reason to use notion is that it not time consumpting it helps me to do things in 5-10 mins which is amazing compared to other software out their.


    Marco Ariel M.

Easy and useful

  • July 28, 2022
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
A fast learning curve, Its interface is intuitive and almost anyone can start creating personalized tools for personal use or team use. Once you understand how it works you can start building from a simple to-do list to a more complex system as a CRM, planning tool, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
It doesn't really use relationships for its databases, so you always need to create many-to-many relations if you want to create more complex tools. Also, you can share views to specific users of your team or guests with a filter so they only can see what you want them to see from a certain database BUT you have to share also the full database so they can view it in their filtered view. This makes the filtered view useless because they will also be able to view the full database so they can see data that only certain users should be able to see. They need to fix this so the users only can see the views shared with each one without the need to give them access to the full database. Otherwise, you need to create a database or table for each user. This would be the weakest point of notion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helping me with controlling tasks for my co-workers with a full system I'm implementing. Since we need to organize the tasks by client, project, area, etc. It's almost perfect for the job.