What I don’t Like about Notion

Notion is fantastic. No doubts.

I have been a regular user of the tool since December 2019 and Notion has impacted my productivity in a great way.

But there are some things that I dislike about Notion and there are some things that I wish were present in the app. Let’s take a look:

Cons of Notion

• Can’t add website-like buttons
• Mobile application is very slow
• Pages with shared link load slow sometimes
• No API support (yet to come)
• No Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Mobile app
• No support for Note Annotations
• No Voice Note support in the mobile app

I have been using Notion for almost 6 months now and, before that, I have tried using almost all the other available Note Taking Apps like Evernote, OneNote, SimpleNote, Google Keep, Typora, Google Docs, and many more. But nothing seemed to be working as I wanted.

Now, my search has been paused ever since I’ve started using the Notion app for note taking and managing my tasks and to-do lists.

Besides all the cons/disadvantages of Notion that I have mentioned here, there are tons of advantages/pros that one should consider before migrating to Notion.

Pros of Notion

• Cool and ready-to-use templates
• Linked database feature
• No need for Trello, Slack, Airtable, or Google Docs
• File upload feature
• Pages may be indexed by search engines
• User-friendly and cross-platform
• A flexible and visual way to organize your data
• Great looking and intuitive UI
• The free version is enough for most users

Notion Replaces a lot of Tools

Notion can replace a series of tools and save you a considerable amount of cost. Some of the apps and tools that it can replace are:

• Google Docs
• Quip
• Jira
• Evernote
• Github Wiki
• Trello
• Dropbox Paper
• Confluence
• Asana, etc.

Notion Supports Multiple Apps

The tool supports embeds for more than 50 apps inside Notion pages. Some of them are:

• Google Sheets
• Google Docs
• Google Drive
• Google Maps
• Figma
• Invision
• Framer
• Latex
• Typeform
• Twitter
• Github Gist
• Codepen

And, many more.

Now, Notion has made its personal plan completely free. Earlier, there was a 1000 block limit, but that has been removed now.

🤘 Starting today, Notion is free for personal use.

We used to have a storage limit on our free plan, but no more! Everyone should have access to our tools to create what they need.

Write, plan, and get organized at https://t.co/ChnIAo3WtV. https://t.co/y79q2cpmsl

— Notion (@NotionHQ) May 19, 2020

That’s it.

Recommended: Notion based tools

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