Structured ideas have accelerated collaboration and direct publication for specialized topics
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Notion is ideas structuring and direct publication to interest groups.
A quick specific example of how I use Notion for structuring ideas and publishing to my interest group was related to the NIS2 directive in Europe, where I collected data, structured it, and it was possible to publish it right away.
This was my main use case at that moment.
What is most valuable?
The best features Notion offers, in my opinion, include its user-friendliness, and while I think you can accomplish much more, I did not have the time to explore all the possibilities. You create something from something, and then you think about what is possible, doing the next steps. The idea of publication, from structured to unstructured and then back to structured, especially some kind of multi-content wiki pages, was the greatest benefit for me.
Notion has positively impacted my organization by helping us to see that it is a very interesting tool to be explored in the future for a more thorough number of use cases.
A specific outcome or benefit I noticed after using Notion is that it saves time and helps collaboration. Collaboration always, in my opinion, saves time if you use the right tool.
What needs improvement?
I do not know how Notion can be improved at this moment because I use other tools like ClickUp for task management and collaboration, and that is also a very wonderful tool.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used Notion for around four months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Notion was stable for me during my use.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have no idea about Notion's scalability as I have not scaled it to multiple users.
How are customer service and support?
I have no idea how Notion's customer support is because if you are using it, it is almost intuitive.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not really switch from a different solution; I just explored another tool because normally I use different tools, and Notion came on the internet as a good tool, so I used it. I used it by the way, as a tryout.
Before choosing Notion, I evaluated other options, and while I tested some options, Notion came out as a modern tool. Other options I tested were classic, like Evernote and things of that nature, but they are closed systems, and I prefer an open system. Notion is an open system.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing indicates that the licensing could be expensive if you continue with all the features; that is something that should be checked for my future case, so it could be an issue.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using Notion is to try it, use a trial license, scale it up with multiple users, and share the experiences. That is my advice.
Highly Customizable but Room for UI Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can configure Notion how I want to. The MyAI agent is particularly helpful as it assists me in building out my interface and keeps everything up to date.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the interface looked better, and was more spacious. Everything seems to be clumped together a little bit too much. I'd like to be able to adjust the size of fields and have different colors and change the actual way that the interface looks. It was a little challenging to set up, and I'm still trying to figure my way around it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Notion for a sales and marketing tool and project management.
Notion Keeps Me Organized with an Intuitive UI and Handy Integrations
What do you like best about the product?
Notion transforms my tasks and allows them to stay organized throughout. The UI/ UX makes it very simple and the various integrations allow for a user to easily perform numerous tasks
What do you dislike about the product?
Notion sometimes has bugs where tasks dissapear or recovering cards can be kind of difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion is solving that communication bridge with working with an international team and organizing it so whats most beneficial to each individual is available to us.
Keeps Information Organized and Easy to Access
What do you like best about the product?
It helps me to keep the information organized and easy to access
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes is quite slow processing and accessing to some pages
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To keep the information easy to access for everyone, defining different kinds of permissions for each person
Very Useful for Note-Taking and Summarising Notes
What do you like best about the product?
Very useful for note taking I can summarise all my notes effectively
What do you dislike about the product?
UI/UX: Navigation can feel clunky, especially within nested menus and larger workspaces, making it harder to quickly find pages.
Integrations: Solid overall, but some integrations feel limited or require workarounds compared to more specialized tools.
Performance: Can slow down with large databases or heavy pages, especially on desktop.
Pricing / ROI: Powerful, but pricing can feel high for smaller teams or individuals who don’t use all features.
Support / Onboarding: Good templates and docs, but onboarding can be overwhelming due to the flexibility and lack of clear structure.
AI / Intelligence: Promising features, though still evolving and not always seamlessly integrated into everyday workflows.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion helps solve the problem of scattered information and disorganized workflows by bringing notes, tasks, documents, and databases into one centralized workspace. Before using Notion, we relied on multiple tools, which led to inefficiencies, duplication, and difficulty finding information. With Notion, everything is structured and easily searchable, improving team collaboration and transparency. It has streamlined project management, reduced time spent switching between tools, and made it easier to document processes and share knowledge across the team.
Streamlined Task Management with Intuitive UI
What do you like best about the product?
I use Notion for task creation, content writing, and managing meetings using the Notion calendar. It helps me organize all my tasks, meetings, and content in one place, saving me time. I like its UI and UX; it's very easy to understand the features and other aspects inside it. It allows me to track task progress and my team's work efficiency, helping with accountability. Notion is very helpful for our social media team, as they can write and store all the content inside Notion and share it quickly using a mobile device as well. The initial setup was very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Notion to organize tasks, manage meetings, and save time. It helps track task progress and improves accountability, allows my team to quickly share and store content, and is accessible on mobile devices.
Versatile, API-Integrated Workflow Solution
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Notion is very versatile and can house multiple types of information. The ability to upload transcripts, meeting notes, and CSV files, all of which integrate into my AI workflow, is really useful. I also appreciate the API connections that allow me to automate my workflow without needing to manually update.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would prefer for my notes to live locally on my system so that I am not paying tokens to Claude for the API pulls. A system similar to something like Obsidian where I can have a Notion database live entirely locally on my system, with the ability for me to disable any kind of sync.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion stores all my information in one place, integrates smoothly into my Claude workflow, and its API connections automate my process, eliminating manual updates.
Intuitive UI, Perfect for Team Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
I use Notion for writing docs and managing tasks, and I find it very easy to add all kinds of data. The pages look beautiful, and its UI has a very good feeling. I really appreciate the collaboration features; I set up my company’s wiki on it where others can jump in and discuss using comments. The initial setup was super easy too.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not that I can think of, maybe add SSO to free tier
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I find Notion makes it easy to add various data types, creating beautiful pages. It enhances collaboration, letting my team jump in and discuss processes with comments.
Centralized documentation and AI-assisted workflows have transformed how my team collaborates
What is our primary use case?
I use Notion for internal documentation, processes, peer reviews, 360 reviews, personal tasks, meeting recordings, and AI agents. I store all standard operating procedures in Notion and create different databases with the fields that I need, such as the team that they belong to, the description of the process itself, and any kind of triggering or automation with Slack in case the process is updated.
I have all the weekly meeting hubs and one-on-ones in Notion. What is unique about it is that it is super user-friendly.
What is most valuable?
The best feature Notion offers is Notion AI. I appreciate the usability of Notion AI and that it can be connected through API integration between Notion and Claude, for example, which works perfectly.
Databases are definitely one of the peaks and the highlights of Notion.
Notion has positively impacted my organization because I have all the documentation centralized in one place. Before I was using Jira, Salesforce knowledge base, and Notion as different tools. Now everything is centralized there.
What needs improvement?
I find that the search functionality in Notion could be improved for finding documentation or past meeting notes.
I feel that the mobile app experience with Notion is not really useful for my workflow.
For how long have I used the solution?
Bugaboo has been using Notion for the last three or four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Notion's scalability works well as my team grows.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support I receive from Notion is super helpful. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate the customer support a 10.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before I was using Confluence, and I switched to Notion because it is more user-friendly.
How was the initial setup?
It was very easy to onboard my team onto Notion.
What about the implementation team?
I find that managing version control or tracking changes in Notion is easy because the insights are very clear.
What was our ROI?
I have not seen a return on investment beyond what I previously mentioned about time saved.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not evaluate other options before choosing Notion.
What other advice do I have?
Notion has positively impacted my organization because I have all the documentation centralized in one place. Before I was using Jira, Salesforce knowledge base, and Notion as different tools. Now everything is centralized there.
The documentation creation and review of this documentation in Notion has reduced approximately 50% of the time. I appreciate that Notion AI will ask before proceeding with any changes. I would recommend others looking into using Notion to use Notion AI to onboard themselves and ask all the questions needed. I will also recommend them to use it for cross-team collaboration and for documentation. I give this review an overall rating of 8.
Organizing projects and meetings has become streamlined with AI-driven workspaces and views
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Notion is as a workspace, which means I use it as a backlog where I prioritize and stock all my projects, and I follow all my projects. I've created a backlog to store everything that is related to my project. This includes the project itself, the objectives, and everything related to the project, such as how I'm going to evaluate it. I follow projects in a Kanban view, but also in a planning view, using several views of databases.
For example, a project that comes from a request is how I use Notion for one of my projects. The first thing I do is create a page called Projects, which is a document that I complete with all the information about the project, including project name, start date, end date, the objectives and goals of the project. I include the steps that I need to follow for that project and identify which KPIs will be relevant for that specific project. When everything is set up, I have an automation that sends it to my planning view. In my planning view, I detail each of the steps I mentioned before. I add the dates of these steps and create sub-steps if needed. This allows me to see the project in a timeline.
In addition to my main use case for Notion, I use it extensively to record my meetings. My projects come from requests, and when I work in AI projects, they tend to be quite unclear. I use it to take notes and record these meetings for these requests. I maintain a database with all the recordings of all my requests. I use AI Chat to ask questions and try to find information about something that happened in the past.
What is most valuable?
The best features Notion offers is AI, which is really effective. I can simply go to AI and explain my project, and it would create a page with a database where I can store my teammates and their email addresses and other information. It simply creates the page for me in the most suitable way and also helps me think about things that I haven't considered before. This is quite useful because it saves me a lot of time since I don't have to build those databases myself.
Kanban views are also really useful features. I use it less because I use Notion myself without my team. I think a Kanban view might be more useful when more than one person is changing the cards. Since it is myself working on this, I don't necessarily use it often. The only time I use it is when I need to clean my list of projects, as it's more visually helpful. It could be really helpful in other setups, but since it is only me working on this, I don't find it as essential.
Notion has positively impacted my organization by helping us in a way that we don't have an internal website. Since Notion is very visually friendly, it helps me communicate about my projects in a webpage layout. I think it helps communicate internally in a more professional way without necessarily using presentations that pollute the server. The AI recording feature has been very useful for all the sales teams because they use it during their calls and have a lot of requests and information during those calls. It's very useful for them to have a document at the end of the call that summarizes what was said, which helps them save a lot of time so they don't have to rewrite everything.
What needs improvement?
I think Notion can be improved because I'm having a problem with Agents. I created an agent that I use to replace my recording of my conversation. When I finish a conversation, I read the resume, see if I like it, and change things accordingly. I realized that it was time consuming for me to go and put it in the right place, so I created an agent to do this for me. However, I realized that it fails most of the time in the sense that it's copying the resume part, but it's not necessarily copying the transcription of the conversation. I really think that the transcription of the conversation is very important because when you're going to ask a question with AI, you need that more than the resume. I think this part with the agents is not quite on point, and I think it needs some work. It's moving in the right direction, though.
As for specific outcomes or metrics, such as time saved or improved efficiency from using Notion in my organization, I have not measured that yet.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
By scalability, I mean that Notion handles growing amounts of work or users smoothly. For example, if my team expands or my projects get bigger, I think Notion still works for me. It requires time for me because it would mean that I need to adapt the workflow. However, it's not something I can't do. Considering the scale of the way we do things and the size of our project, scalability is possible.
How are customer service and support?
I have not had any experience with the support team so far. It has not been necessary.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used Monday.com to follow my projects, which is mostly the use I have of Notion right now. The reason I changed is because I changed companies and in this company, they don't use it anymore and they didn't have any tool for doing this kind of task. I thought that Notion was a good compromise where I could follow my projects and create pages and organize my environment.
How was the initial setup?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that pricing is acceptable. We have four licenses because not the entire team uses it. It's acceptable for our needs.
What was our ROI?
As for a return on investment, I can't tell because we use it internally. I think that the improvement for us is just a gain of time. I don't see this tool as a direct ROI source, at least not so far. I just started using it not so long ago, and I am supposed to be the lead of this project. I haven't gone further right now. Maybe that's something I could add in the future. I might need some coaching or training because I think that I can do much more than I actually do with the tool.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Notion, I didn't evaluate other options necessarily. I think it just came naturally. I started using Notion right before starting in this company. When I started in this company, I realized that a couple of persons were using it already, so it came naturally.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using Notion is that I'm always talking about Notion with my friends, and I always tell them that it's a nice way to keep your work organized. I see Notion as your server with files and folders, but what I really like is that you have the ability to customize pages in a way that you can't do in a word page. My advice to others looking to use Notion is to try to understand first why you are needing Notion or what kind of tool you're trying to look for, because it might not necessarily correspond to everyone. In my case it was possible because my department is a new department, so I was free to create the whole structure and the whole workspace. However, I think that when you arrive in a big company, this possibility of creating a workspace won't be possible. It really depends on the size of your company and the openness of the company. I think it's a tool that is pretty cool, but it won't match every kind of company. I would rate my overall experience with Notion as a nine out of ten.