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Glitchy iPad experience
Very difficult to select text or move the cursor around. The page would scroll to the top or bottom sporadically when trying to do any of the aforementioned things.jonathan_thamrin
I went on the app tonight and All my notes have been deleted
Tonight I went on the app and it had logged me out I logged back on to my account To find Every note I’ve ever had gone, I checked the trash and still there seems to be no records of them on my App, They were very important to me, Most the notes Are over 3 Years worth of Work, I’m incredibly Heartbroken over this and I’ve tried many different things to get them back and it’s like they have just disappeared, I worked Incredibly hard in these Notes and there is no back ups to them And the Only ‘Back ups’ I have are from months to years ago so they are not right and not updated, This is incredibly frustrating and if there is any way to bring them back please help a girl out here. ThanksShow lessavasillynn
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loved this app until it kicked me out of my acc and deleted all of my notes for schoolava🪴
It’s more pain than it’s worth after subscribing
I’ve been trialling the features for a bit and was happy with it only to find that once I’ve paid for my monthly subscription the app tells me I haven’t paid and I need to as such I can’t access some features. I even tried to pay again, I’ve also uninstalled the app. I’ve done just about everything and nothing is working. It just keeps saying that I need to subscribe and I already have to access the features. It’s like it’s not reading my payment or something. It’s honestly, a little frustrating.Show lessDarla Trix
BUSINESSES BEWARE
This review is more about Notion itself than the app. After reviewing a bunch of other programs I subscribed to Notion to help build my new businesses internal infrastructure.
I was happy at first but it seems that the moment anything goes wrong Notion support is less than helpful.
I’ve been going back and forth with Notion support trying to fix some billing issues (updating my payment details). Notion seems fairly incapable of actually troubleshooting the problem and at this point as I keep getting the same suggestions from different ‘people’ I’m convinced Notion help is running on AI and not an actual human with problem solving skills. Despite numerous occasions saying the system won’t let me update my payment details and suggesting an actual bug that may be causing the issues their reply was: It’s so easy, you don’t even have to log in. Please update your information with this link.
Also to note, you only get a reply every 24 hours, so after every (it’s so simple update your info) communication gets a bit tiresome.
If you’ve seen Sh*+s creek this whole exchange was the equivalent of “just fold in the cheese - what do you mean - it’s easy, you just fold in the cheese”.
I’ve tried to escalate this to a dept manager or someone in tech that would hopefully have the skills beyond “it’s so easy just update your information” however the more frustrated I get the less inclined they seem to be to help me. It’s at the point where I’m considering switching to another service which will be a hard decision seeing as we have put a lot of time into building our systems in Notion.
Also to note despite being told that the old payment info is incorrect and I cannot update my payment details they continue to attempt to bill the old card number and then send me warnings that I need to update my information.
So, let this be a cautionary tale for anyone using Notion for their business - it’s good, until it’s not. At which point you better be able to problem solve on your own. Just fold in the cheese.Show lessBUSINESSES BEWARE
I LOVE this tool
I'm not a big planner to begin with, probably due to my lack of enjoyment for more mainstream planners like Google calendar and traditional paper planners. Google (while claiming to be user-friendly) had too many tools and GUI's to navigate through which felt overwhelming to me, while still lacking the flexibility I desired. Paper planners I encountered in the store didn't do the job either because they were not formatted exactly how I wanted, and of course a regular old notebook didn't provide the online accessibility I wanted.
Notion is everything you wanted in a planner, and truly helped bring the planning side of me back to reality. It provided helpful templates I could use to give an overall format for what I wanted to write (checklists, boxes, etc.) which were incredibly customizable. The tool is simple yet powerful, without any unnecessary visual effects or special features you are forced to learn. I love that Notion can be accessed on any device via the website or app, and my plans look the exact same in any format without shifting its orientation or completely up-hauling the website layout. I would recommend this to anyone.Show lessDevynator21
There goes another great app
It was a great app until it wasn’t. AI was slowing things down bad and was always accidentally triggered. This should be an optional feature but they won’t offer that. My experience went from a slow loading app to unusable app quickly. No page would load, all blank. I could only access my notes on the web browser at the end. Weeks with customer service back and forth went nowhere. I moved all my data to Obsidian now and deleted my Notion workspace.Show lessSteSim
Make it mobile compatible
I know it is already compatible but you could make a completely new app very similar to notion but slightly changed so it is more compatible with mobile since it’s very hard. You could change it so underneath the “health and feedback” there are a selection of buttons that will help navigate around notion, and if you make more than 3 pages then you could make it scrollable so you scroll on that small part so it won’t get in the way of the buttons, or just put them to the side. I really like notion, but my laptop can barely show a word since it’s so pixelated and I can’t afford a better quality one so I’m stuck to my iPad. I really think notion has a lot of potential, and it’s already shown on the laptops and computers. It just needs some tweaking for mobile users. Maybe add a choice to let notion know that you are on mobile instead of making a new app! So it gives you a choice as to if you are on phone, iPad or computer. So it adapts to your screen to make it a more comfortable experience.Show less(ง'̀-'́)ง 🅃🄴🄴 🄷🄴🄴
Loading problems
I absolutely love motion and use it instead of notes for literally everything.
I have come across a problem recently though. It has been stuck on a loading screen for 5 hours at this point. I have been trying to get to my stuff into the pages multiple times during this time period. Turing my wifi on and off, turning my phone on and off fully, updating the app and waiting. It was working perfectly fine earlier though. It might be my internet but it is currently at 5G and 2 bars. Been at 3 bar multiple times throughout this time period of 5 hours. I have all the planning for my books on there and I am wanting write. But unable to because what I need to look back it as unavoidable because of this loading error. It has annoyed me a lot and I hope you can get it fixed. Thank you.Show lessJessie B🐸
Buggy and nagging (iPad M1)… moving to click up if it does get more stable
Notion would be amazing if if it was easy to do easy things. There is a lot of functionality that would make your life a lot easier. What takes away from all of this potential is a buggy and nagging experience trying to input information.
Trying to add a to-do list (checkbox) - click the Hamburger menu with your finger (iPad), list comes up, click “To Do List”, menu goes away… to do list item doesn’t populate.
Try using touchpad, follow the same steps…. to do list doesn’t populate.
Create a bullet point, and click the hamburger menu, “change to..”, “to do list”, to do list doesn’t populate.
You are also able to do slash commands. So I press “/“. I see the menu open and it closes immediately.
The to do list is only an example. There are endless nagging bugs like this throughout the experience. So instead of being able to use the app to enhance workflows and life in general, you are constantly fighting the app.
I stopped using Notion for about 8 months and used a number of other products. Because of all the data in notion and all of the “things” I had set up already, I came back to because SURELY they had fixed the bugs. It’s the exact same. No more consistent or stable than it was 8 months ago.
What is really annoying to me, is that they release new features. New and shiny things like their AI tool. I WOULD RATHER HAVE AN APP THAT WORKS PROPERLY and not have AI. I don’t care about AI. I just want to be able to input data. If that works, AI would be amazing.
It will be long and arduous, but i’m moving to ClickUp.Show lessgardenjalen
