today I want to talk to the notion users out there about why I'm not anti-notion a few days
ago I published a video called new notion about catalog which was an application in the market
right now which in my opinion seems to be doing what I believe the future productivity in teams
should be doing a experience that takes away the no code that you need to know with notion
and brings a level of preparation for machine learning and artificial intelligence that I
believe in the long term that people will need for teams and will look a lot more attractive
than notion and obviously I know that this video will have caused issues with how my predictions
are phased in the productivity space and I want to talk about why I'm not against notion in
this whole argument or conversation now I've been checking out productivity apps for about 10 years
now and I've had a weird Obsession since a very young age of I think it was like at least 15 or
so 16 whereas obsessed with applications and the updates that were involved in them and how they
progressively evolved in the years of use and back in even 2015 Evernote was struggling and I was
talking a lot about how this could potentially be one of the most vulnerable periods of time
for Evernote in terms of a replacement coming along and I talked a lot about how when I found
notion that it will be a wild bet that this will become the future of productivity applications
and I feel like I'm in the same window of time now that I'm talking about these applications
like catalog being a potential replacement for notion in the next couple of years and it feels
again very scary for me to make these when I was doing the whole notion stuff people didn't really
understand what I was talking about they tend to have got it in 2018 2019 but when I started
talking about it earlier on it didn't really make sense for a lot of people because notion was
so early days and what they were doing with their different platforms seemed a bit different to what
other applications that Evernote were doing at the time and I love notion I still bring
that passion along with me like I love to do it because it's helped me along that journey I use
those applications a lot and they helped me quite dramatically in a lot of different aspects of my
life and I love what notion they're doing right now Community Channel support everything that
they've ever done has been brilliant but I can't move away from this prediction that I have for
the future of productivity and it's something that I want to try and explain in an analogy I
break how I think about productive adaptations into two parts passion and prediction a good
example of this is that I play F1 fantasy and my passion my team that I support is Ferrari and my
predictions are very different to my passion I don't really put the two together just because
my passion is more passionate was passionate than my prediction when I do the F1 fantasy
I typically go with who I think will perform in a longer period of time than I do just choosing
Ferrari for the sake of Ferrari and it has been that for many years in the F1 fantasy but the
thing is that's how I think about productivity applications with todoist I am passionate about
how they weigh they build their application the way that Amir runs the company their ethos
around the concept of remote work is phenomenal but my predictions right now is that to-do list
applications will become stale in the next couple of years and they'll be replaced by daily planner
applications as the default and mainstream to-do list experience so once my passion is firmly there
in my predictions are different and it's the same with notion I love everything that notion do the
way that they build their website their adverts are fantastic but still and I definitely have a
place in my heart all the time for them like I did with Evernote because they've helped me
organize myself at least and a lot to millions of other people in times that have been difficult but
also times that are more Milestone times in your life like I think I remember writing some of my
wedding speech in notion and that's it it these are applications that do help you or like a bit
of a bicycle for the mind like Steve Jobs quote and they do stick with you in in terms of how
they build themselves so that's where I view myself with notion I continue to make videos
about them I continue to talk about their existing applications I don't ever mean to take the mech at
them or even just to talk about them negatively I want to talk about news I want to talk about the
way they're progressing and I want to talk about the productivity future and how that's going to
evolve and I feel like it should be fair that I do that and it should be fair that other people
can do that as well and share their passion too so I really obviously I'm looking forward to sort
of the conversation at how that rolls but I'm never in the mindset of a negative experience
with notion I stopped using a notion for personal use back in 2019 or 20. I can't remember but I
still use it for work and I find it a fantastic application for that so I just wanted to really
restore people's Faith because I know a lot of people do follow this channel for influence in
terms of where I see applications going I don't want you to drop notion now if it's working for
you use it for as long as humanly possible I'm just talking about high-level things that I think
will evolve in the future of productivity if you do fancy checking out the video I did make about
that you can find it above in the cards or in the link in description but largely I just want to
say notion users like I'm sorry if I offended anyone I purely do this out of my predictions
for the long term and hopefully you understand that now listening to this video and hopefully
I can help clear up any questions that you have in the comments below thank you very much folks
it's been Francesco from keep productive and I look forward to continuing sharing my opinion and
my passion as well on here on YouTube thank you very much folks and I'll see you very soon cheerio
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