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Notion Reviews

1. jk22

   · consultant at GFI · about 2 years ago
   Notion has helped in documenting our business

   It's been very very helpful to streamline different people on our team, especially remote workers to help them understand what's going on in our business without 100s of meetings.

   Pros:    Ui is very attractive|Easy to use|Great for collaboration|Good customer service|Free to use

   Cons:    Steep learning curve
2. Ramesh Kumar

   · Product Manager at Aerial · about 2 years ago
   Extremely helpful- made life easier

   My remote-first start-up has eliminated more than 200+ hours of meetings and 1000s of mismanaged documents because our entire communication happens through Notion.

   Pros:    Clean ui|File sharing|Modular

   Cons:    Learning curve
3. Boyd Richardson

   · Writer at SE · over 3 years ago

   As someone who's always on the lookout for the perfect productivity app, I was excited to try out Notion. It promises to be an all-in-one tool for everything from note-taking to project management to personal wikis.

   From the moment you open Notion, you can tell that it's different from other productivity apps. The interface is sleek and modern, and it's easy to navigate. The app is divided into pages, which can be customized with different templates to fit your needs. You can create to-do lists, databases, wikis, calendars, and more.

   One of the things I love about Notion is the ability to create relationships between pages. For example, you can create a database of your favorite books and then link to a page with your book reviews. Or you can create a to-do list and link to a page with notes about the task. This feature makes it easy to keep all of your information in one place and to connect related items.

   Competitors: Microsoft Loop

   Pros:    Highly customizable|All in one|Collaboration|Cross platform

   Cons:    Steep learning curve

MarkItDown mentions (16)

• My AI said the PDF was empty. The PDF was not empty.

  I was preprocessing documents with markitdown, Microsoft's file-to-markdown converter, so I ran it by hand:. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago

• Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026

  You don't need to use an online service to do this; you get to avoid spending money on tokens doing it offline. Gemma 4 works perfectly well offline on limited hardware (I have an 8GB video card) and can handle extracting text from image-based PDFs just fine. Take a PDF -> run it through MarkItDown [1], using the OCR plugin if you need (point it to Gemma 4) -> now you can ask Gemma 4 questions about the document.... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown

  Related: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

  I have a standing instruction for any documents that can't natively be read by a given AI to first be converted into .md using https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown which I've found to work really well. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?

  Native support: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/onedriveblog/introducing-markdown-support-in-sharepoint-and-onedrive/4512174 Microsoft OSS python: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Notion mentions (441)

• Cool SHIT you can do with docker

  Two of the most popular open source note taking app are affine (basically notion but open source) and obsidian (which stores notes in markdown). - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)

  Notion | https://notion.so | Android Engineer | SF | hybrid (in office 2x a week) | Full time

    Level: Mid/Mid+ (4-6yrs experience).

  - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Karyam: Simples everyday writing app

  Advanced Notion and Google Doc writing editor. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• My blog post workflow

  I manage my non-work and work-adjacent tasks in Notion. Whenever I have an idea, regardless of how big or small or silly or achievable it is, I'll add it to Notion, and use labels to categorise it by type of output (e.g. blog, silly project, website update). Today I wanted to write a short post for my site. I clicked on the filtered blog post view, and selected this one (because I hoped it would be a quick one!). - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• 6 AI tools that feels illegal to know🤖

  Notion.so redefines workspaces. With its intelligent organization and collaboration features, it's more than a productivity tool—it's a digital haven. Discover the art of streamlined and efficient teamwork. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago