Hello everyone, welcome back to the Keep productive YouTube channel it is
Francesco here now in today's future. We're taking a look at the flaws of
Notion, this is video that I've had on my mind for a while now
I wanted to sort of point out a few of the things that notion could be doing better on
Naturally, this is not necessarily bashing notion. I'm a big fan myself. But as you can imagine it's important if you're a
prospective user of notion or someone moving from another application to be fully aware of all of the issues that currently
Stand a problem inside of notion. So hopefully we recap those for you today
I'll also be diving into my wishlist for notion in 2020
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So as I said before a big fan of notion I use notion myself if you haven't checked out
My notion set up tour. You should definitely check it out include it in a link in description. Got to do a new one
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So there are a few different flaws of notion and whilst. I think it's a very good tool as a whole
With all companies that start out and grow they naturally have some sort of teaming problems with the experience
Now the first of those is the offline experience now whilst you download the notion on your own device
There are a few issues when you go offline if you haven't cashed that page
Then you won't be able to access it
You will have this appear on the screen and it could be a real pain when you just want to access some information
I definitely found this a pain what I was trying to find information now
They are actively trying to work on an offline version and you can still edit if you have cached those pages
For example, I did actually quite a lot of work on the flight and it had this sort of status of you know
You've got this many syncs and edits and when I landed I was able to go online and sync that
Now there have been a few people that have had issues with that
For example, they've synched with this work and it's not been uploaded afterwards. I think some of those problems have been fixed
However, this is something that's a real negative of not having a fully commit or offline version
But they'd look to add that in the future and especially in this world when we're not really that offline, you know
like even on flights or some Wi-Fi
It's definitely something that it's not necessarily a major major thing. Just something to be aware of
Okay, you search abilities. This is something that again notion of stated
They're working on they've worked collectively on trying to improve the performance and reliability
I've done a video about their recent updates. You can check that one out
It's about some of the performance updates and what's happening with
but as you can imagine search hasn't been a big focus in the last I think like you could search
Staff very easily and you can normally find stuff within
Checklists inside of a page which is very useful keywords
but it doesn't really go much further than that if you want to search a new specific file or
something that someone's specifically uploaded you can't
And naturally not be great to do having a much more refined and advanced search and sign of notion
Okay, so mobile improvements. They have started working on this one as I mentioned
There's that video one sort of idea of the performance improving. They've released an iOS version that's slightly banner are also a
Gradual rollout the Android the Windows and the Mac versions and I must say the iOS version is a lot snappier
I actually was opening it up and using it for a video the other day or today
but as you can imagine it was like
Actually decent to open like I was a bit shocked like it's a normally a lot slower
They do still need to work on it
There's no doubt about it, but the improvements have been made better, but they still need to sort of actively make it this
fluid fast application on mobile especially for iPad users
Okay, so one of the flaws that I think is still a problem inside of for example
The Mac version now I use the desktop version is loading up databases
So like if you have a really chunky or heavy database
I
Don't have many of those but the biggest one I have takes a few seconds to load if I'm opening a page for the first
time in a while
And that could be a little bit of a pain, especially when you're trying to get to data as well as offline
Even if you've got the page cached, I'm not sure you can use the databases in full
I'll have to double check on that one
But last time I couldn't maybe this was because of the load issue the loading databases can be a bit painful
So just be aware. It is gonna be not the most reliable experience
But again, if you're on Wi-Fi, you're not going to really have too much of a problem, especially if you have a good connection
Okay, so this comes into the sort of conversation about
like final management, like obviously search will probably solve this and be able to access your files but in terms of file management
I really really really really wish they had local file support
for example
if you upload a file it's not necessarily gonna take you out to a web server that they saved it on to which is definitely
secure and fine
But at the same time be able to have balance a locally stored like Evernote does would be blinkin amazing
and also have the ability to find files really easily like for example
Just having like a button that you can press to search all files that have been uploaded to
Notion and that would be a really key function of the search abilities
So enough notion bashing I am a big fan of the ocean myself
If you haven't checked out all my videos you can do I'm the thing
I would say as well with notion is I've just been sort of like getting that conversation going about you know
The reliability the platform things like that and they are actively working on it
Like if you see their Twitter, they're always talking about it
They are really keen to do it and they do have a fast-moving team
So they're working on that big sort of sustainability to move forward
But these are a few of the things that I want in my wish list for 2020
This first one isn't for me. It's for the new on borders
and what I would like is for one person that would be onboarding is
To have a button that would build their experience for them. Now. This is very
Maybe not so like, you know get started
But I would love like the ability for them to connect their Evernote to connect their Trello and to connect other applications
then to go pre build my experience and it
automatically sets up a notion sort of workspace for you with all of your notes in one area of all of it Trello and a
Few project dashboards already set up for you in the way that you'd like to use them
Like that would be really cool that would obviously include like machine learning and and obviously like it would be a bit of a weird
Way of how it does it but that would be really wicked for newbies and it would save a lot of time
especially for me teaching people know him probably drop our sales massively, but as you can imagine
It would help people find out how to use notion a lot faster
and that would be pretty cool to have especially if you were like
Okay
You pick my Evernote and I'll pick my Trello and I pick my thing and create a brand new workspace of yourself just to get
going and
Again, we'll see what there that happens. There's been no evidence that an even is a closed feature to be coming out
But that's just my sort of mind now
The second feature is something they've actually announced that will be coming is a timeline function now
they already have five databases the gallery the list the table the board and
The calendar those are great five databases, but a six form would be brilliant
It'll be called timeline and you'll be able to sort of get this like
Dropbox paper-like experience inside of there and you'll be able to sort of visually see what's coming up
This would be perfect for like my goals or targets for the year because I want to be able to see like, you know
what's gonna be the focus in q3 what major projects are working and
Honestly like that would just fix my entire goal set up because in a moment
I've just very simple setup and I've tried setups in the past that I haven't necessarily worked, but that would work very well
That's it guys those are all my flaws with notion
I hopefully I helped you if you're looking at notion because
Like I think it's really important to tell people what the problem is asked is they don't switch after
a lot of you I found we're going I'll use notion for three months and I can quite hack it and
That's where they should have known about the flaws
So this is really important video. Although obviously, I'm a big fan of ocean
It's really something that I think people take a lot of value from and they always listen
That's all the good thing is like notion team are always really good with support
So they always end up like plus wanting stuff and finding stuff to get so don't think they can ignore you guys
Which is really good
You know whereas you could say something very different about other applications
anyway, guys
Thank you so much
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