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Fantastic, but mobile needs changes.
Notion is an absolutely fantastic app for projects, notes, sorting, and many many more due to its versatility and freedom. As a single person, notion is completely free with next to no restrictions. Teams will require payment, but it has a free trial to see how you like it, and I consider it fantastic for groups.
However, that being said, mobile notion is severely lacking in certain features that the desktop version has. Basic features like renaming your workspace can only be done on desktop. There are also some bugs with the ui, like the back arrow sometimes just straight up sending me out of the current workspace, and the toolbar disappearing and requiring me to restart the app.
These don’t ruin the app by any means, as notion is still an amazing app and is still amazing in mobile, but I would consider mobile notion a great ADDITION to your desktop notion. Use desktop as your main form of using notion when creating, and use mobile when you’re away from the desktop or need to check something. Mobile as your only form of using notion isn’t terrible, but it’s definitely inferior.
Notion overall is an amazing app with amazing developers, who deserve lots of love and support. They also gave major generosity with the app, of which many other services would’ve charged the individual a large amount of money to use what notion gives for free, which again is pretty much everything except very minor things like upload file size limits.Show lessThe Cone Hater
Mobile app is very very limited
There is no way of scaling pages to be smaller, no functioning image paste, clunky rearrangement of items. Buggy and missing features.alltheusernamesaretaken12
All aboard the AI hype train!
Been using Notion for all of my note taking for about 3 years now. Works great on iOS.
Recently, in light of ChatGPT, every soulless product manager in tech is scrambling to shoehorn some kind of AI into their product, and sadly Notion was a casualty of this.
In adding their AI to the toolbar in iOS, they have REMOVED THE OPTION TO HIGHLIGHT TEXT AND MAKE IT AN EXTERNAL LINK. This is fundamental to my Notion workflow, as this is a basic WYSIWYG feature. This has made Notion nearly unusable for me.
If they don’t bring back external links and/or have a way to turn off the AI features soon I’ll be moving to Obsidian or something else.Show lessHimynameisdave9
Amazing Support Team
I am new to using Notion as I am back in school. I have been talking pages and pages of notes, but when I switched between pages, it brought me to the top of the page, rather than where I was originally on the page. I messaged support to see if there was a setting or for notion to remember my scroll location when jumping between pages. Unfortunately, there isn’t. But I am writing this review and still giving 5 stars for the Support Team. They quickly got back to me and asked me to explain in further detail what I meant. When they told me there was not a setting for Notion to remember my scroll location, Vlasis (the support team member emailing me back) said he would pass on this on to the engineering team as it would be a helpful tool to have. Although I wish they had this tool now, I am happy with how the Support Team handles inquiries!Show lessTryingToBeANerd
Get rid of the AI & fix the bugs
It seems like every developer for apps got the same brain worm and believe that adding in AI will make people use the app more. Get rid of the AI, it is useless, devs need to stop adding in new features and focus on the bugs & glitches.
The app is almost unusable on iPad. The keyboard and GUI do not appear properly making it incredibly hard to type and navigate the app. I really used to live this app but it just seems like the developers do not care anymore and I am honestly thinking of switching to another writing app. The app will randomly log me out and then quickly log me back in like it realized I wasn't supposed to be logged out, a huge security hazard. The app LAGS when I try to type only a few sentences. My pages don't load and so I have to close and reopen the app a bunch until it properly loads in my writing. Please please ,ditch the AI and fix the bugs the first.Show lessShadlet
Very nice app
Have been using for a few years. Excellent.
Only problem is that it doesn’t support handwritten notes yet.stewiereal
Confusing and annoying
Going between mobile and desktop is super frustrating, difficult to figure out how to do the same simple functions.
Makes simple things so complicated, I don’t want to keep adding 100 pages to a simple “to do list” note. And yet when I want to add additional pages to another note it seems impossible. I tried to add a page within a page, and edited the new template but it ended up deleting months and months of client info… I give upShow lesskaaaaypes
A Hassle and Locks Service Behind Paywalls
Originally picked up Notion when looking for a new notes apps. There were a few quirks here or there but overall I was happy.
It wasn’t until rare situations where I needed to do something I don’t normally do, and export a bunch of notes to provide a friend, copy larger sections of notes, etc, that there are issues. Exporting a “database” as they call it is fine, but it just exports the note and none of the sub-pages that requires a business yearly cost.
Duplicate and Delete right next to each other and you wanna duplicate a “database” (which didn’t work) but miss clicked? Deleted. I was so devastated and their restore options are garage and costumer service won’t help unless paid business account.
Single personal use? Probably fine if you never need anything from them, else you’re out of luck. So frustrated with this service that they lost my paid account a while back and now me as a user forever.Show lessMrMoosh
Good for large projects, terrible for grocery lists
I started using Notion a few months ago after seeing it appear in offline and online marketing everywhere. I intended to use it for life admin to replace my various to do lists- jobs to do around the house, grocery lists, box sets to watch etc etc. I like the power and flexibility and am finding it very useful - more useful the more I use it in fact, especially the ability to switch between list and board views so easily. However, it is useless for grocery lists because Notion only works when you are online and my regular supermarket has a terrible mobile signal. So I had to hold my phone in the air like it’s 1997 until the list loads up, then take a screenshot. Not good! I’m still using Notion a lot but I now use a separate app (OurGroceries) for the shopping. Which is a shame.Show lessNzthim
The UI is very difficult to figure out…
This is great app, but it is very difficult to edit and make pages. It’s confusing to make subpages, and it take me 20+ minutes to edit a “page.” And that’s just for headings, subheadings and lists, nothing decorative. When making a new list I had to click on the in page table of contents to make it, and it messed up the ordering of the headings I wanted to make. I love the creativity of this app, but the limiting UI and confusing layout is so hard to make me want to us it everyday. I only use this a few times a week to update my pages because it is that difficult to use. I also find it weird how I said I was using this for myself but it loves to prompt me to add my more people to my project. No. If I said this was personal why have any options for me to add people?! Using an Apple Pen is useless, it doesn’t do or help with anything. I’d rate this higher if it was so much easier to use and understand.Show lessHollyDolly1010
