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I also have to disagree here.

What Notion has built is amazing.

When leadership tells us our job is to replace Microsoft Office. I say it's not

This is Libre Office's job. While I truly admire this community’s work. If I ever get anywhere close to their level I’ll consider myself lucky. They do important work and I hope they continue for may years .

I’m not trying to replace Microsoft Office because work has changed.

As it came online, it became collaborative.

What’s replacing Microsoft isn’t perfectly similar alternatives to text editing, spreadsheets and slides which are tools that were made for formatting more than content editing.

These were meant to be printed to be shared.

What’s actually replacing Microsoft Office are tools like Notion.

Nowadays content is created in real time with 4, 6 or more pair of hands typing at the same time. ⌨

The way we actually replace Microsoft Office is by building products that follow the change in usage like Notion has been doing.

That’s what we need to do as an opensource community.

Adopting Notion won't do in times like we're living as states (hell, all of us!) we need strategic digital autonomy.

The product of our collaborative work is knowledge, we can't have it siphoned because it's sitting on an American server.

Notion has been leading the content over form revolution for a while now.

But revolutions are our thing right ?

We like to start them, but it's way more fun when they spread to the whole continent

Want to join us or support us with a little GitHub https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs




Notion is some kind of Kanban board, isn't it? I think the point of the parent is that such boards were not invented by Notion, and writing a webapp that essentially allows you to move post-its between columns is not exactly innovative. Which is fine, if it works. We don't always need innovation (actually most of the time we don't). Notion just seems to be super popular for just being a webapp of post-its.


> Notion is some kind of Kanban board, isn't it?

No, it’s not. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it has a Kanban board.

It’s a proprietary cloud-based wiki with support for every more or less mainstream feature (multimedia, databases, AI integration, collaboration, etc.). It’s a bit sluggish and doesn’t have a good mobile story, but if you don’t mind the proprietary aspect, it’s otherwise a polished product.


Notion has a very flexible data model. We use it mainly for documents, but it also can contain databases, which can be viewed as kanban boards, timelines, etc.

https://www.notion.com/blog/data-model-behind-notion

It's really nice to have one place to go for all kinds of content, but that content can link within itself, @mention other pieces of content, etc.

It can (and does) turn into a huge mess if you let it, of course. But that's down to team culture.


It's much more generic than that. It's highly flexible and intuitive hierarchical information organization software. At least that's how I'd describe it.

The innovation isn't the organized structures themselves either, but rather the intuitive non-technical interface for rapidly and concurrently updating both the information and structure. You can build a lot of Jira-like features but it doesn't dictate much of how you do that.

It does have a highly customizable Kanban view of their more generic database structure where each object is itself a page which can be filled with anything and everything else Notion has to offer (including more databases). Databases can have many views, structured as calendars, tables and a couple other forms I don't use, and each view can have its own set of filters, etc.

It kinda looked at Jira+Confluence and asked "what's the simplest fundametal software which can be used to build everything they have to offer"


Notion is a wiki. It’s like Confluence but good.

Maybe they have tickets and boards as well? Even better!


You misunderstand what notion is


Notion is good, maybe great for some but small things holding it back from becoming ubiquitous.

Does notion work offline-first yet?

The only copy of my data should not exist solely in an app’s cloud, and I should not need to manually export anything.

Collaboration is nice, still has nothing to do with being offline-first.

Docs looks very promising. Congrats to the remnant he launch.

Another effort that might be a subset of Docs is Anytype - another French effort that seems to be very promising.


> Does notion work offline-first yet?

It does via a desktop application.


Must be relatively recently.

Maybe mobile will be important enough and enough users one day to have offline-first support.




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