[mrkwse]

I'm someone who has used and paid for Notion for several years at this point.

What I would say is that it's very versatile. It has almost Atlassian Jira levels of features (and arguably of bloat), and it's possible to reasonably organise a lot of thoughts/knowledge/tasks in a wide range of ways.

I think the reason why it's so popular and oft lauded is because the range of capability allows people to really engineer workflows and processes that work for them and that without the prompts of the examples that Notion and its community provide they may not otherwise arrive at.

So for me I'd probably say that the product itself is fairly good. It's far from flawless (e.g., it uses Electron), but does a solid job of a wide range of things. The killer differentiator against its competitors, however, is the library of templates and example projects - this initially was produced by Notion itself but then the community really grew, shared its own interpretations, and _productivity content creators_ really latched onto it as a good conduit for communicating workflows, processes, and systems for working/getting tasks done.

[yawnxyz]

Notion's definitely seen a lot of bloat in the last few years. I used it since the "2.0 relaunch" and it's gone kind of downhill after each release. Stuff that used to work well don't work as well or fast anymore.

Still better than anything else on the market though.

Apple Notes is great for my own stuff — but good luck trying to get multiple collaborators to use it.

[fogoflove]

Notion is a good product, imo. But it's not unique -- there are other products like it out there, most notably Microsoft Loop, which is a clone.

[eropple]

Loop seems a little more like Coda to me than Notion. Similar space, but not a similar "outlook on life".