I know they're slightly different, but this reminds me of Workflowy[1] which pretty much runs my entire life right now (todo, projects, journaling, brainstorming, informal databases, bookmarks). In looking at tools like this, it's hard to know where the line is between simple functions that you then use to create abstract features, and more complicated interfaces that define features explicitly. It's a nuanced thing. With Workflowy, the simple list and tag interface can do much of what Notion does (of course, minus the great design and multimedia support), but you really need a formal workflow and need to stick to it to make it function well. Whereas Notion kind of designs those patterns for you, but at the expense of some interface simplicity. I feel like Workflowy demands more of a unix philosophy to achieve Notions features. You'll need to chain web apps together. For example, you can use hyper links in Workflowy to link to files in dropbox, or host images on some other site and audio/video on another, where Notion puts in all in one spot. Very cool.<p>I can definitely see this as a great tool in the classroom for creating interactive discussions. Copy a template for each class and you can have everyone collaborate and focus on the discussion, not taking notes (or better still, take notes in the collaborative page itself, things that aren't originally there), and then after you have a record of everything which you can share across all students and with different classes.<p>[1] <a href="https://workflowy.com/" rel="nofollow">https://workflowy.com/</a>
Every note taker I've found gets the building block unit wrong. The building block unit shouldn't be stylized text with media - it should be content that is digested and summarized. Quotes from books. Summarized web pages - either automatically or through a clean UI experience. Snippets of video. Wikipedia/dictionary snippets.<p>Stylized text marries content with design. Having the content be rich objects makes your primary work to summarize instead of stylize, which makes much more sense in research driven contexts (which is pretty much everywhere).
Fantastic onboarding flow! The "wow"-ing feature gifs followed by your interactive tutorial sold me. Also beautiful use of web components.<p>I'm curious how far you think you can take contenteditable with all its cross-browser quirks.
PDF support?<p>It blows my mind how bad PDF support is in all of these notebook/data organizing apps (I'm looking at you OneNote) given how probably the vast majority of non-HTML digital documents are in PDF format.
Absolutely gorgeous looking, though I suspect I'm not the target audience, and it seems like there is the slight danger of trying to do too much. Maybe I'm just not thinking big enough about what Notion is trying to accomplish/become.
Also - if anyone wants to use a great window manager, it's also named notion[0] these days.<p>[0]: <a href="http://notion.sf.net" rel="nofollow">http://notion.sf.net</a>
Is there a more-or-less similar thing in Open Source? I'm looking for something like this for quite some time, but would need it to be self-hosted, and what would be even better, end-to-end encrypted (e.g. with shared secret).
This is the Mother All Demos... Congrats to the team, this is amazingly done!<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY</a>
Does anyone know if there is a JS editor that acts similar to how notion works? I've seen a similar pattern with readme.io, and would love to be able to use it for internal tools.
Looks nice, but so far there's limited platform support:<p>>Support for your browser is coming soon.
Check out Notion on Google Chrome desktop, Safari, or iPhone.<p>>Copy and paste this link into a supported browser to continue:<p>><a href="https://www.notion.so/tutorial" rel="nofollow">https://www.notion.so/tutorial</a><p>I'll try it again once Android support is in.
I'm not kidding, this is one of the best things I've seen lately. I basically write for a living and this looks like a real gamechanger.<p>If you can keep up this quality and fulfill all the promises, I'll be willing to pay a good deal of money for it.
I just got the 'unsupported browser' notice on Chromium. Surely it should work the same here as it does on Chrome?<p>Gorgeous looking product. Site runs a little slow on my older machine but I suppose that's to be expected with the fancy GIFs.
Looks really cool - love the inset video - but I'm struggling to imagine what I'd actually use it for.<p>Site doesn't seem to say how saving/exporting works - anyone know?
Make this able to be self hosted, whip up a price plan for enterprise and add a half-decent API then you've got yourself a lot of customers. Awesome looking product
Sounds like this is an early revision:<p>> You are looking at Notion 0.5. We are working hard on the 1.0 that would have a lot more ideas flushed out. Stay tuned, and thank you for your feedback.<p><a href="http://www.producthunt.com/tech/notion-4#comment-147200" rel="nofollow">http://www.producthunt.com/tech/notion-4#comment-147200</a>
Yes, thank you! I can't try this yet since I only have Firefox at this machine, but alternative note-taking and rethinking computer documents is something I've long waited for.<p>If anyone knows of any similarly "different" projects, please tell me!
This looks amazing and the onboarding process is really good.<p>I wanted to have a block based editor for a project but it felt a bit daunting as this was not the main part of that project.<p>Did you use anything for the wysiwyg or are you just using execCommand?
Obligatory reference to Xandu and Ted Nelson has to be dropped here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu</a><p>Very pretty