so hello everyone and welcome back to another video today we are going to look at notion
versus Loop and I want to talk about how Loop is different to notion and I want to talk through
some of the reasons why you might uh on the side of notion right now as a collective experience so
here we are inside of our notion at cam now one of the things that you'll obviously get
from the get-go is that notion does have a lot of capabilities we know that I would say probably the
database function is largely the most powerful feature in this and it can quite it can extend
quite fast so I want to talk about that first as you can see this is a database that we use
for Content writing and things like that and you can go into quite a high level of depth here you
can see not just properties that are part of each database but filter sorting grouping subsorting
even subtasks layouts on multiple levels and lots of different customization if you do that directly
compare that to the feature that's available inside of Microsoft Loop right now it's vastly
different because you get some very basic sorting some very basic column abilities and you can see
you can change column type here and it's very simplistic in its structure it's not going to be
doing vast views vast setups like this and I think that's the primary difference between notion and
the likes of Loop and obviously we've got here this part is so like the canvas experience is
they're very similar in a lot of ways obviously you can't do the Great dealer functions like
slash command and using certain blocks to create you can't create pages and you can't do a lot of
this Mass multimedia stuff and creating databases and buttons and breadcrumbs and synced blocks and
all this sort of jazz but you can do a lot of what it does already it's quite simplistic in a sense
where they've laid the groundwork for the basics but the difference between this element the tables
function and notion is vastly different like they're gonna have to do a lot of catching up the
core difference I think is that Loop is very much structured to be a little bit more less I guess
flexible the notion with notion you've literally got unlimited flexibility with the database it's
like here if you wanted to do a voting option you are reliant on the team at Microsoft releasing new
functions for this and sort of giving you more capabilities whereas at notion you do have a lot
more the key difference between Loop and notion is this element and that's the loop experience
so obviously with this you can turn anything into a loop component so if I want to turn um this into
a loop component I can create it and naturally I can share and extend it obviously one thing you
could do in notion is create a link database and share it with people obviously there would be some
limitations to the workspace but largely you could do something like that you could make it shareable
but the difference that I think a lot of people are finding is that if I were to share something
with notion it still requires you to go into links and actually interact with those links whereas
I'm sure Steve will show it on screen as we're speaking the loop components actually
go uh between that so you can use it in Microsoft teams anywhere really literally any Microsoft 365
platform that has the loop component capability to do that which is very different and it sort
of breaks that barrier between using a component actively and not so imagine being able to send
something to somebody and then being able to interact with a database of notion without had
them having to go into a link and to be able to view and guest mode or anything like that there
is that step that can really be ironed down now I want to talk about that a little bit because Loop
components are a the only saving grace for Loop in my opinion but at the same time is this a problem
that we're fixing or is it probably that we're creating like with Loop components are do people
really need this do people really need to interact in real time in these areas and I think the answer
is yes I think having real-time collaboration without having to go into areas is really helpful
but I think the largest problem will actually be sorting them and making sure that you are aware of
where they are and this is where I think loop as a platform like this exists and the reason exists
is because you need a place to store and organize all of these whereas before Loop components could
exist and be able to be collaborative but they would only be available in those collaborative
spaces and they wouldn't really have a home this is a home for your Loop components that's the way
I view it at the moment so other aspects of it I think workspaces are nice inside of Loop
and that sort of I would say that team spaces are probably a lot smarter in their sense like in in
the structure and you've got workspaces as well up here I just think overall the entire package
of notion is considerably better everything from down to templates down to the ability to structure
stuff is so flexible and I think Microsoft will probably do a few things and the first of those
is they will build on what notion has as a core Loop experience like for example making this a lot
better to manage and easier to manage so that's number one the second is advancing these tables
probably in being a lot more capable viewing a lot more different styles because at the moment
you've only got table and this task light for you so being able to correct that or make them
more enhanced will be something that they do and number three is probably make it a lot easier for
um the admins to switch Microsoft lupon right now Microsoft Loop is switch on only and you
have to be an admin so that's something that can be a little bit of a barrier to entry especially
when they've got the distribution they have it's probably just because you know like a lot
of the plans probably don't include Loops so it's like trying to make sure that they future proof
themselves if they want to remove loot from a plan and move it to another plan but I do think that's
almost the issue right now is they almost need to go okay we need to make Loop part of our larger
system and sort of commit to it and actually get admin set up if you're somebody that is looking
to activate loop.microsoft.com then you can find out videos from Daryl as a service he does Modern
work Mentor I'll put him linked below he has some good videos and content about how to make sure you
switch on admin properly for you and your team but largely it's I would say at the moment it's
it's almost uncomparable if they didn't have Loop components notion wouldn't even be worrying about
these guys because Microsoft and Google are these big companies have the um the mindset sometimes
of just switching them off and not really taking advantage of them so I think Microsoft Loop has a
lot of potential but if it develops fast and it rapidly improves this experience
um the actual structure experience of the account and the future functions that that comes within
it one of the things that even like when they launched they pre-launched they had like this
feature where it was like video notifications where you could reply back with video notification
but they dropped that for launch which makes total sense because obviously it's quite a lot of
information but that's the sort of features that are gonna differentiate from notion is that sort
of like um you know that sort of step forward that they might need to take a little bit of risk on if
they're going to LeapFrog but obviously Microsoft Loop isn't going for their smaller audiences like
notion is they're going for medium to large teams but in the sense notion could also take a lot of
hints from this like there is this area private down here but they could have area for the ideas
and recent that's a really nice feature and I guess link databases is sort of similar to this
but you could develop some sort of loop component element as part of notion if it's something that
teams are looking to enhance like I'm not sure how you can do it it's mainly because 365 and
teams and all that are built for this so you're sort of building something that works in a system
you've already got but I feel like notion should be thinking about how they can approach being
more widely accessible um but again only because this problems come up that they've created so it
might not even be a problem anyway folks I hope you found this video useful I thought it was a
fun overview of just where my opinions are with Loop versus notion right now giving you a bit of
a side concise comparison of how it works at the moment we're doing we've got a few videos we've
got Microsoft Loop in depth that we've done that I'm sure we'll be posting on the other channel and
um I'm sure you can find that there but aside from that this was just an overview of my thoughts
of where things stand at the moment so folks hopefully you enjoyed this one I look forward
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