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Re:Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, an... by beat on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:45PM (#18906278)
But again, that's enterprise.

This started with the idea of a personal on-prem solution, which is probably not worth the cost to maintain for the company. I mean, how much is it worth to you to have an on-prem personal solution for a diary? Because that's the worry... people are afraid that their household budget or their database that tracks the content of various adult films or whatever is going to get exposed. That's mostly about embarrassment, not actual harm. That's not something worth hundreds of dollars a month to most people.

And really, if I want to write down my deep dark thoughts where no one will read them, I'll use paper.

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Re:Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, an... by woolvalley on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:20PM (#18906607)
Personal users want E2E encyrption, so it doesn't matter who is running the server. And most users do not have the skill to run their own server. The technically advanced can just use the enterprise version if they really care about personal on prem.
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Re:Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, an... by Too on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @04:25PM (#18915500)
Maybe we should change the notion that it's difficult to deploy an on prem service.

Why can't it be as simple as containerizing it and presenting it exactly like your would install an app on your phone, with the same possibility to grant permissions? App store provides automatic OTA updates so you don't have to bother about security. And the app itself should not have internet connectivity, connectivity is provided through authenticated tunnel into the container so the app cannot phone home in the background, you can only connect into it using the tunnel with your own password.

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Re:Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, an... by beat on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:59PM (#18906925)
Even if you have the skill, is it worth the time to do on-prem, considering, you know, a pen and paper?

(Full disclosure: I'm a total bullet journaling convert. Given a choice between giving up my bullet journal and giving up Google Calendar/Docs and Trello, I'd give up the online stuff in a heartbeat.)

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