Notion Reviews

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.

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.

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.

I have used Notion for around four months.

Notion was stable for me during my use.

I have no idea about Notion's scalability as I have not scaled it to multiple users.

I have no idea how Notion's customer support is because if you are using it, it is almost intuitive.

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.

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.

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.

Public Cloud

My main use case for Notion is making developer and software engineering notes and then sharing it with team members.

I use Notion for documentation of technical work that I have carried out, and because I use so many different command-line tools, I have pages within Notion for different commands that I have commonly used. I appreciate the feature within Notion that allows you to insert code blocks, which makes it very easy to read the documentation when going back. For a specific example, when I set up a Jenkins pipeline, I was writing a piece of documentation for how I did that end-to-end, including the command-line arguments that I passed in.

The best features Notion offers include a user interface that is very easy and clear to navigate, the fact that pages are embedded within other pages which makes it easy to structure your pieces of work, the ability to share it quite easily with other team members, and the ease of inserting emojis.

The page embedding feature is something I quite appreciate, as it avoids the need to create folders and then documents within them. You can create elements within Notion with one being within another, so a page within a page. That is quite beneficial and it makes it very quick and easy to use the tool, which speeds up my workflow.

Notion positively impacts my organization by improving productivity, as it provides a great way to organize documentation. By using Notion, I would say you could probably save at least 10% of your engineering time just because you are able to write documentation which is easy to read and easy to share with other team members. Teams could expect at least 10% time savings just from using a highly structured documentation tool such as Notion.

There is not really anything that stands out as a key limitation of Notion; I use it for documentation and just need somewhere to write my notes quite easily and structure them well.

There is not anything that is a standout limitation, but if I had to pick something, it would probably be that the offline mode could be improved, as most of the time you need an active internet connection for most features. The one thing that could be improved is the offline mode to make it easier to use in an offline environment rather than having to maintain an active internet connection.

I have been using Notion for around four years.

Notion is highly stable.

Notion is highly scalable; I do not manage the infrastructure running Notion itself, but I presume Notion's infrastructure can scale to however you want to use it, so there are no issues with scalability.

I have never interacted with the customer support.

Neutral

I previously used Google Docs for taking engineering notes, which works fine, but I do not appreciate the code block feature within Google Docs. Notion is very good because it is very clear and very clean to read, and you can also select from numerous different languages that you want to write in, whereas in Google Docs, it is limited to probably five or fewer languages compared to Notion's over 15.

Google Docs was probably the only other option that I was looking at, but it is not really built for software engineering notes.

I would recommend people try using Notion, as there is a free trial feature so people can see if they want to use it. It has many great features, including the code block feature, the ability to insert tables, and you can insert many different types of elements, making it a powerful documentation tool. I would rate this product a 10.

I have been using Notion for about five years.

My main use case for Notion includes personal notes tracking, shopping cart, and projects and task separation.

A quick specific example of how I use Notion is that I have a list of shopping items that I need in general. I have a flag configured there, also configured by the stores and by the recipes I want to make. I can easily go to a recipe and click the products that I need to buy for it.

In addition to my main use case, I also track the things that I need to do for my house in my day-to-day routine or any improvements, any repair items, and so on.

The best feature Notion offers is configurability.

Configurability helps me because Notion provides the very basic functionality and then on top of that, I can configure whatever entities I want, whatever behavior I want, and group them in any way I want. I can build anything on top of that.

Notion has positively impacted my organization because I use it mostly for personal activities and it helps me to be consistent with my tasks and less chaotic.

Notion helps me stay consistent, for example, with my shopping cart. Previously, I just had to remember or go aisle by aisle, trying to understand if I need something or not. Now I can check my shopping list and go directly to the places where the goods are.

Notion can be improved, and the main downside comes from its pro feature, its configurability. It is a little bit bulky and it is a pretty steep curve to learn how to use it easily.

I choose eight out of 10 because it is a little bit bulky and very hard to onboard. When I try to do something new, I have to go all the way to configure without any presets.

I have been working in my current field for almost 20 years.

Notion is stable for me, as I have no issues with crashing.

Notion's scalability is good because if I ever needed to expand my use or add more data, it would handle it well.

I have not tried customer support and have had no need to reach out to them.

Before Notion, I used OneNote for that. I switched to Notion because it provides more possibilities and more configurability for any use cases I can think of.

I have seen a return on investment using Notion because I became more organized as I can track easily all the things that I need to do.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that there is zero pricing as I use a free version.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing Notion; I decided to try Notion right away.

My advice to others looking into using Notion is to be patient. I would rate Notion an eight out of ten.

Public Cloud

Other

I use Notion for both personal and professional purposes. Personally, I manage my daily life and professionally I manage my projects. In the professional sphere, I gather all the client information in Notion along with the phases of each project in order to assign next steps to the participants of the specific project.

There has been an increase in productivity since I started using Notion. Since Notion is an easy-to-use tool, it is easier for teams to use it and move forward more quickly with pending work. I have improved in efficiency since I started using Notion.

I consider the best features that Notion offers to be the variety of things that can be done, especially with the databases. I think they are very useful for relating concepts in the workspace.

Regarding the databases, I appreciate them because you can transform the databases into different views. You can have the same information in tables, in lists, in boards, which is quite visual and helps to better organize a project.

I also value that you can share different Notion pages with different people and with different permissions, which is useful when one part of the team is focused on one part of the project or when clients only see the pages that are designated for them.

I think Notion is now overcomplicating things, as there are too many features and for a user who starts from scratch, it can be difficult to learn everything. I give it an eight in particular because I think it is a very useful tool, but as I mentioned before, it can be complicated when someone starts from scratch using the tool.

I have been working in my sector for four years.

I consider Notion to be a stable platform.

I think Notion has good scalability and adapts well to the growth of the team or projects.

Before using Notion, I used several tools that help with project management, such as Jira, and I use them in addition to Notion.

The initial implementation of Notion in my team was quite easy because I have been using Notion for two years now. At the beginning it was simpler than it is now.

I manage the training of new team members by having a call and providing a guide on how to use Notion inside Notion itself.

My experience with the price, setup cost, and licensing of Notion has been normal, and I have nothing to comment.

Notion helps me both to make my work easier and organize my day-to-day tasks, and to distinguish the tasks for each project and assign them to the corresponding team. I would advise other people who are considering implementing Notion to start little by little with basic things and to use it a lot because the more you use it is when you learn the most. I rate this product an eight out of ten.

Public Cloud

My main use case for Notion is project management and knowledge tracking.For project management and knowledge tracking, we mostly use it for roadmaps. In a typical workflow, we assign things that need to be done using Notion for roadmaps, and since it is collaborative, anyone can come and update those tasks.Knowledge tracking is also a major thing for us. When we do knowledge tracking in Notion, we make sure that everyone can come and collaboratively add to what is already existing and ensure it is always up to date.

Notion has impacted my organization positively by allowing us to do things faster without communication gaps related to knowledge and tribal knowledge.Notion has reduced the number of back-and-forth communications between the team by at least three times. The tribal knowledge that we had has considerably reduced because people can collaboratively update the content and ensure that everything is up to date.

The best features Notion offers are collaboration and team collaboration.What stands out to me about the collaboration features is sharing knowledge. More than real-time editing, it is that people who know things can modify content accordingly so that things will always be up to date.One more thing I would add about the features is the integrations. We use Slack, which is integrated, and our Git notifications are integrated to Notion, so we can keep track of everything in a single place.

Overall, Notion is doing its purpose well. One thing I may add is that it would be great if Notion had a team chat within the tool itself.A chat function within Notion would be great and would help collaboration to be even better.

I have been using Notion for almost three years.

Notion is stable.

Notion is heavily scalable, and we did not have a problem with scalability at all.

Customer support for Notion is great.

Negative

Before Notion, we used Jira to manage our project management and Confluence for knowledge management. We switched to Notion because it was far easier, simple, and highly customizable.

I purchased Notion through the AWS marketplace.

I have seen a return on investment in terms of time saved. I don't have a specific metric, but definitely a significant amount of time has been saved, at least two times over.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was fair.

My advice for others looking into using Notion is that if you want a tool that helps you with many things in a single place, that is extremely simplified and heavily customizable where creativity has no limitation, Notion is the tool that helps you with everything. I have given this review a rating of ten.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

My main use case for Notion is creating quarterly or yearly roadmaps and setting timelines to track feature and idea development. I heard about Notion from a friend and am using it for the creation of PRDs and personally learning product management so I can switch my career to product management. I use Notion to prioritize my goals.

One recent specific example of how I use Notion for my projects involved tracking one of my projects that was causing frustration. For that problem, it helped me show the real-time location of delivery drivers on a map. The success metric, complaint reduction, changed by thirty percent.

I am using Notion because it is handy for me right now. I can keep everything organized there, making it quite easy for me to use. It helps me write features and ideas clearly and explain the problem, which becomes easy for me. Additionally, I can track my work, decide what matters, prioritize everything, and store knowledge including notes and previous decisions.

The best features Notion offers are the ones I know because I have not been using many related products. I can switch between multiple databases and switch views from table, Kanban board, calendar, and timeline. I can also connect databases, see everything interconnected, generate action items, summarize meetings, write PRDs, roadmaps, and sprint boards.

There is also automation that helps trigger actions, conditions, and logic. Notion impacts my organization positively as it has made many changes for prioritizing things both personally and organizationally.

I think Notion can be improved in several areas. It has a slow loading page and laggy scrolling, which irritates me. Additionally, the search sometimes misses content inside pages, making it hard to find the exact information. The filters are not that effective, and when I need metrics, it is difficult to find them. There are no built-in charts or deep analytics dashboards, and current automation is also limited. External tools are sometimes needed, but there is no structure for that.

I would add that there is limited control for large teams, and managing access at a detailed level is difficult. Editing on the phone is clunky, making it very difficult to work if I am using the phone to do something. Offline mode has limited functionality, and I need internet for smooth use. The performance also needs improvement.

I have been using Notion for about a year.

Notion is stable.

Notion's scalability is good.

I have not used customer support, so I'm not sure about this. Once I get to use it, I will provide feedback.

Notion is the first solution I have used.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing Notion because I was still new to this field. Someone suggested there are other solutions, but they told me I should go with Notion since they were already working on it and had experience with some other tools. They believed that Notion would be the best fit for me.

I am still working on finding a new job or working on new projects, so I am not sure if Notion has given me any ROI yet. Once something happens, I will provide feedback, but for now, it is still a work in progress.

I would suggest that since I am a newbie, anyone switching to a more product management-oriented domain should work with Notion. It will be easier for them on the first try, and later on, if they gain some experience, it will become easier for them. For experienced users, since I do not have much experience, I cannot say much. I would rate this review as a six overall.

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Other

I have tried Notion for several months. My main use case for Notion is that I was recommended by my friend to use it for tasks such as to-do lists, task management, productivity boost, and organization, so I tried it and implemented my work inside it.

I can give a specific example of how I used Notion for task management. I worked on new code in my new company, and the code was very difficult, with a lot to remember and handle. I found it very tricky, so I needed a tool to manage everything together. My friend suggested I use Notion for this task.

I have used Notion in two different ways. The first way was as a to-do list, but I have a specific app for to-do lists that I found much easier to use than Notion, which also syncs to my device very easily. For a to-do list, Notion was not a good idea. My second and main use case was to manage my code and understand the different methods and how to use them, so I used Notion for this management.

In my opinion, the best features Notion offers include a flexible database and the ability to use it with different kinds of views. However, I found it very difficult since it started to order things in groups, which really challenged how I look at things. I found myself struggling more with the tool instead of using it.

I suppose I used Notion incorrectly because so many people recommend this tool. I kept struggling with it, and even when I did my best, I kept struggling. I found it not useful for me, and I actually do not recommend this tool. However, I understand that a lot of people are using it and they are very satisfied with it.

I gave Notion a big chance and ordered things over there, trying to make it very organized. However, maybe I used the right tool for the wrong task, or maybe I used it incorrectly. All the time, this table was ordered in different ways and the table kept moving, sorted in different ways, such as in groups, which was so annoying for me. After I built this table, I just left it as is.

The experience was mostly a struggle from start to finish, and maybe I need to give it one more try on another task. For me, it was very annoying. I also tried syncing it with my phone since I wanted it to be synced on my PC and my phone, and it did not catch up.

Based on my experience, the main issue was that the table was sorted differently all the time. However, to be honest, I think I used the right tool for the wrong purpose. I do not know how it can be improved since maybe I just used it incorrectly.

I know from my friend that when the database becomes large, it becomes very slow and laggy. I did not feel it since it was still small on my side. However, he uses it all the time and it has become huge, so I believe it is slow when it becomes huge.

I have been working in my current field for about a year.

Notion is stable, but I found it a little bit tricky using it on my phone.

My friend is a heavy user, and for a big database, it is challenging.

I previously used OneNote. I tried to switch because I wanted to try a new product since everybody recommended this product to me. However, I eventually came back to OneNote.

Unfortunately, I have not seen a return on investment because I did not like it and I did not use it. Basically, I spent time creating this table, and eventually I did not use it. For me, it was a waste of time.

I use the free tier for pricing, setup cost, and licensing.

Before choosing Notion, I now evaluate other options and I am trying Obsidian for management of my tasks, so it is interesting to see if this will handle it.

My advice to others looking into using Notion is to watch YouTube and understand if this tool fits your needs. I think overall Notion is a great tool, but I need to learn better how to use it and adjust it to the right task. I give this review a rating of four out of ten.

Public Cloud

Other

I use Notion as a platform to store our documentation for our project. The documentation we store in Notion revolves around our project, which includes details about the local setup of the environment on the computer or system provided by the client. It also discusses how we can execute our application in the local environment on our system and in the cloud-based environment. Additionally, all things related to our application, including the architecture and all of the subcomponents that are defined, are documented there.

The best feature Notion offers is that it provides the ability to quickly document thoughts and summarize documentation in a much more professional manner, which is very helpful. The integration it has with Slack and other tools is also beneficial, as it helps us collaborate our workspace and communication platform with Notion.

Notion has positively impacted our organization by helping us resolve queries related to the application. Since we have a centralized platform that provides all of the information, it saves time communicating with each other and holding meetings to resolve issues. It acts as a single platform to resolve all of our queries, and if anything remains unresolved, we document it there and take reference from it.

If Notion could add an interactive feature, such as an animation for visualization of our data or something similar, I think it would be much better.

Nothing is perfect, and there is always room for improvement.

I have been using Notion for almost a year.

Since we only used Notion for documentation, we did not face any issues. Other people use it for various purposes, so they might have a different experience; however, from what we used, we did not face any issues. Notion was a good tool for us.

The measurable improvements since using Notion can be thought of in terms of the number of queries it has resolved rather than the exact number of minutes saved. There are ten people in our team, and five more have joined in the past year. All of those five new people have been onboarded and integrated with our environment at a very fast pace. Within a month, they were able to get familiar with the environment and the complete application through the documentation. My advice to others looking into using Notion is that it is a good product and worth considering. I would rate this review an eight out of ten.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)