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Has proven to be useful
What do you like best about the product?
Notion is absolutely wonderful for school. It has allowed me to not only stay on track but to better prepare for each class. It's AI function is convenient and effective to gather information and ideas.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a steep learning curve. When I first downloaded notion it didn't feel intuitive. There are so many ways of doing things that it can feel overwhelming at first.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion has allowed me to organize my priorities effectively such as looking at my monthly non negotiable expenses. Notion has also helped me to keep up with my schoolwork.
Got my boss and rest of team to use Notion! Kind of my life hub at the moment...
What do you like best about the product?
I love the customizability, flexibility, and structure of Notion. I can easily organize things from random links, finances, Office space wikis, and even scripture reading while searching for it across my entire notion to find what I'm looking for incredibly fast and easily! The Notion AI has been a game changer! My Boss freaked out when I showed that it summarized all of his notes and made easy action items from very lengthy articles!
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't much I dislike... I believe some of the sharing in between workspaces are a tad confusing at first, but make sense in the end of why they are structured that way. I LOVE the notion AI, but I wish it could do more of the formatting like toggles.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Ogranization of information
2. Quick retrieval of information
3. Quick write-ups, summaries, and brainstorming in a shared workspace and using notion AI.
4. Databases that are linked together to create very organized and detailed dashboards for project management and other use cases.
2. Quick retrieval of information
3. Quick write-ups, summaries, and brainstorming in a shared workspace and using notion AI.
4. Databases that are linked together to create very organized and detailed dashboards for project management and other use cases.
AI writing assistant
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use, very effective at integrating information and formatting!
What do you dislike about the product?
AI can be slow and clunky
Trouble with the summary function, found that it often omits key information
Trouble with the summary function, found that it often omits key information
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Really helpful in formatting copy-paste text thst isnt inherently compitable with notion
Excellent UX that allows for excellent productivity
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about Notion is its excellent UX that lets you focus on what you're writing. In addition, Notion has a ton of easily accessible functionality to build your pages, be it Kanban boards, Roadmaps, Databases, and tons of handy things. Honestly can't go back to my personal and professional writing without it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unfortunately, it still doesn't allow for the customizability that would take it to the next level. You should be able to change the fonts, background colour/palette of pages and build advanced dashboards (handy for team managers in tech organisations) - alas, this is not available yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion's ability to structure your pages into wiki-like sites makes it ideal for writing technical documentation for projects, internal company wikis and personal writing projects. Furthermore, the AI tools are quite handy - some of them need significant prompting work from the user to be useful, but the "Improve Writing" functionality is perfect to use on any text.
Time Saver
What do you like best about the product?
AI has streamlined my research and writing process and helped me think through coding challenges. I organize all of my professional and personal projects on Notion because it covers a lot of management needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Notion desktop app can be very glitchy, and there are still features I hope will be available soon, like calendar integration. I also do not like how the colors in dark mode appear. Some of them are unusable because you cannot see the text.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I enjoy building out my planner that keeps all of my projects in one database. Creating different views to highlight event types, like homework vs meetings, is easy.
It has been fun to experiment with
What do you like best about the product?
It is a good way to organize every aspect of my life, from work to the menu for the week and even travels. I like that I can share it with colleagues and my spouse and that there are really fun templates
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes a long time to learn. I wish there was a central place to find videos on how to use each feature or type of "doc". Maybe there is such a place I just can't find it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can plan all my UX projects and keep track of all the links and content related to the project, in one place. I can also store notes and feedback in a way that is well organized in the same document.
Great for Law Students
What do you like best about the product?
Notion AI allows me to push out emails and other low-impact writing. I also enjoy summarizing a page of notes after a long lecture
What do you dislike about the product?
It sometimes fails to pick up where I am on the note page. Sometimes it will begin writing about something that I referenced much earlier despite a prompt directing it to cover something else.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion is helping me consolidate my class and extracurricular notes, which makes it easier to stay on top of school, work, and scholarship.
Notion AI - the delights and the disappointments
What do you like best about the product?
I was asked to review notion AI. I'm not a notion user by default, I was attracted due to Notion AI's release. I use it for writing non fiction. I am amazed at its speed, compared to chatgpt or anything where I've used the openai API . it really excels at improving writing and cleaning grammar. I struggled with GPT 3 to get it to modify grammar without adding its conclusion statements or variants and trying to "cowrite" my text. I spent more time trying to prompt it to correct grammar than getting it to actually do it. With Notion, I can select a huge swath of text, have it correct grammar and spelling, and "improve writing, " which it does beautifully without losing context. Again, with GPT's general model, "improving writing" will yield unpredictable results and it will often write things that undermine what you are trying to say. Notion does not seem to have this problem at all. If you say "improve writing" or "make shorter" it does that, and it does it efficiently and quickly. After about 10 minutes of using, I gladly paid the $10 for the monthly subscription.
The other thing I liked initially is that it seemed to be aware of everything on the page. I was able to have it do outline summaries of very long sections of text that I'm positive I would have had to send in "chunks" through the api to openai (which degrades meaning and makes it very difficult to produce anything coherent) . And again, it does it very rapidly right in the context of your editor. I've tried some plugins for google docs and word that require you to wait quite a long time for much less pleasing results.
The other thing I liked initially is that it seemed to be aware of everything on the page. I was able to have it do outline summaries of very long sections of text that I'm positive I would have had to send in "chunks" through the api to openai (which degrades meaning and makes it very difficult to produce anything coherent) . And again, it does it very rapidly right in the context of your editor. I've tried some plugins for google docs and word that require you to wait quite a long time for much less pleasing results.
What do you dislike about the product?
Previous to about two weeks ago, I was able to have notion do some really specific things and get consistent results. I could have it generate a roman numeral outline, support the points with references from the text, and save it as markdown, for example. I could give it fairly complex instructions in my prompts and it would understand them. Also, it was much more aware of everything that was on the page.
Clearly something has changed which has severely handicapped its performance, making it about 45% less useful to me, leading me to look for other solutions. If I ask it to summarize something in an outline, it might say "i'm sorry this does not need an outline summary." Or it might say simply start regurgitating the text as is. it seems to literally ignore the details of my prompt. Or it might actually produce the whole outline, and at the end say "I'm sorry that exceeded the text limit" and delete the whole thing it just produced. Also, the notion editor itself has become less stable, and freezes up quite often. I'm on a free notion plan, only paying for notion AI, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Another frustrating thing is that I tried to google what kinds of issues people are seeing with notion AI and I can't find anything more recent than about a month ago, and it's mostly gripes about how notion AI has changed their experience with Notion. I don't care about my experience with notion, because I'm new to the whole thing. but I can't find anyone griping abuot Notion's features who seems to understand what it's for or what its good at , which means its less likely to be improved upon because there's nothing constructive being said.
When I try to look for information about Notion AI I find very little. There's nothing about how to control parameters, like temperature or creativity or anything like that. Nor can I find anything about how it's designed to function. What I find is essentially a sales pitch about how it'll write an email or give you a block of text, that isn't much different than every other autocontent writer that started a business in the last few months advertising the same thing. This is frustrating because I don't know if it's behaving as designed, if it's malfunctioning, or if they've implemented some limits and changes deliberately or....?
So in my view, improvements would be 1) good documentation about what it's actually trained to do, and perhaps what its NOT trained to do so that we have realistic expectations in using wihch would lead to a lot less frustration. 2) the ability to pay for more functionality if token limits are an issue as to why its suddenly only able to consider small blocks of text rather than everything on my page.
Clearly something has changed which has severely handicapped its performance, making it about 45% less useful to me, leading me to look for other solutions. If I ask it to summarize something in an outline, it might say "i'm sorry this does not need an outline summary." Or it might say simply start regurgitating the text as is. it seems to literally ignore the details of my prompt. Or it might actually produce the whole outline, and at the end say "I'm sorry that exceeded the text limit" and delete the whole thing it just produced. Also, the notion editor itself has become less stable, and freezes up quite often. I'm on a free notion plan, only paying for notion AI, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Another frustrating thing is that I tried to google what kinds of issues people are seeing with notion AI and I can't find anything more recent than about a month ago, and it's mostly gripes about how notion AI has changed their experience with Notion. I don't care about my experience with notion, because I'm new to the whole thing. but I can't find anyone griping abuot Notion's features who seems to understand what it's for or what its good at , which means its less likely to be improved upon because there's nothing constructive being said.
When I try to look for information about Notion AI I find very little. There's nothing about how to control parameters, like temperature or creativity or anything like that. Nor can I find anything about how it's designed to function. What I find is essentially a sales pitch about how it'll write an email or give you a block of text, that isn't much different than every other autocontent writer that started a business in the last few months advertising the same thing. This is frustrating because I don't know if it's behaving as designed, if it's malfunctioning, or if they've implemented some limits and changes deliberately or....?
So in my view, improvements would be 1) good documentation about what it's actually trained to do, and perhaps what its NOT trained to do so that we have realistic expectations in using wihch would lead to a lot less frustration. 2) the ability to pay for more functionality if token limits are an issue as to why its suddenly only able to consider small blocks of text rather than everything on my page.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
its very good at grammer and spelling and improving writing style and generating summaries on page ; better than what I've seen in other products so far
A Tool I cannot run my life and business without
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of being able to design as you need, including tick boxes, databases and tags. ability to capture and source everything in one place in a way I need to see it at the time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Still needs a better clippng tool or extension invented for web without having to use third party apps
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The writing assistant is life changing. It is solving life management issues assisting me to have a paperless office and spend more time on what I enjoy content and writing creating.
Amazing!!!
What do you like best about the product?
Where to begin? The platform is incredible and makes me so much more productive!
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing! I use the platform daily and have never had an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping all of my information in one place.
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