Re:Buy Don't Build
by tenaciousDaniel on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:06PM
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I found Notion to be fairly simple to get started. Whereas when I opened Airtable my head exploded and I closed it immediately and haven't revisited it since.
Re:Buy Don't Build
by systemvoltage on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:12PM
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I agree. Notion is a lot easier to get started on. I also should mention that Notion/Airtable vs. Excel are somewhat different types of swissarmy knives to be used in different environments. One is used in the battlefield and space exploration, the other one in a children's playground. Jokes aside, Notion has some nice features like Wiki and it wears too many hats like a joker in a circus. I love the fact that I can write a recipe with tables and markdown -> publish it to the internet to be consumed. Can't do that with Excel.
Excel has a subscription fee as well.
Re:Buy Don't Build
by systemvoltage on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:07PM
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Yeah unfortunately. We still have a 2016 Excel license and will continue to use it.
You can buy the 2019 version as well. So far, Microsoft has given their customers the choice between one-time purchase and subscription.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...
Their close cousins are locked, proprietary, slow, bloated, exceedingly complex, poorly designed (ui/ux), emojized, vc-backed feature extravaganza and have a subscription fee.
Experts of Excel use keyboard exclusively, their keystrokes are a melody of efficiency, expressivity and productivity that is continued to be mocked in similar fashion as the 2007-era Mac vs. PC advertisements.