The problem was that it was difficult to know what a block was or how much you could do with 1000 blocks until you had invested enough time in the platform to be able to estimate how many blocks you might need to evaluate it.
Then there was additional mental overhead of trying to conserve blocks to extend your free trial. Do you implement something the correct way? Or do you maybe cut some corners to use fewer blocks so you can stay on the free plan a little longer? This extra decision making step added a little bit of fatigue to every interaction, which isn’t what you want when users are trying to evaluate your tools.
Typical trials have well-defined and easy to understand limits in units that users already understand: Users, bytes, projects, documents. If users have to learn your project before understanding the terms, it’s mental added overhead.
Here was my experience: my team signed up, started using it, tried out all the different features (none of which were behind a paywall), didn't hit the 1000 block limit, and started paying within a week of signing up because it was exactly what we were looking for at the time.
I am currently happy on the free-tier and would cheer-lead internally at my job if there was interest to migrating to Notion.
I wonder how the total numbers of people that did each of these things compare.
[1] The size of search index depended on the amount of content indexed as well as heavily on the features that were turned on. E.g. pre-index search-term expansion would increase the size by a factor, and so on.
Evernote also refuses to create multiple level of notebooks and manual order of notes. They also have strange user accounts on their user forum proactively denounce feature requests. Every time I search for a new feature request supported from many users will end up see a few familiar accounts claiming you don't need the new feature. I was like, who the heck are those people?
However, if they take away my ability to set the default font size, or create multiple notebooks, I will probably leave as well. Taking away multiple notebooks would break a lot of my use cases. Maybe I am already using the legacy version?
But if you didn't notice the change of default font and font size, may be you are using the legacy version.
Sounds like what Microsoft did with OneNote the Windows 10/Microsoft Store app vs the desktop application with significantly more capability though I believe the Win10/Store version is expected to catch up at some point.
I remember asking for this over 10 years ago in their user forums, only to get some volunteer evangelist (who wasn't an employee and didn't have an official title but spent hours a day on the forum) claiming it "wasn't needed".
I gave up on Evernote when I realized they were spending more time on branding instead of features and reliability. And the constant in-app advertising nagging me to upgrade from Plus to Premium didn't help. I was already paying them money, I shouldn't have been treated like a free user.
This is exactly what I found a couple years ago. These people were under many threads with new feature suggestions. Not sure whether they are still there. They do find a purpose of their life. Lol.
This thread is the first time I even heard about notion, but since they are getting so much praise here and since they made it so easy to import my notes, I just switched over.
It’s looking like I will have to write my own note app if I want something that does what I want and is going to last so I don’t loose my notes every decade.
Ive since deleted the account and moved to an internal note taking system. Anytime someone asks me about Notion I actively recommend against using it.
I basically track everything, from sideproject progress, CRM, personal challenges, workouts, books read, personal expenses, whishlists and todo with Notion in an unique way. While I'll be the first one to admit that the flexibility can be overwhelming sometimes, for basically every common usecase there are templates or YouTube tutorials
There are other good note taking apps out there and there, and there are other note taking apps out there that solve the device problem I struggle so much with. But notion is the best note taking app with the best cross device/platform support I've come across.
Linux, Windows, Android, Web... the service performs excellent across all platforms.