How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (2019)

Re:How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (... by ibdf on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:45PM (#27544367)

Almost paid for Notion twice but I never do it… because of the damn tables… Just let add me add a simple non relational table where I can have row and column headers. Not every tabular data needs to look like a database. And finally… it’s so unclear what they are working on that I just don’t want to invest my time on it if I don’t know where this product is going. So much potential…

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Re:How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (... by knubie on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:51PM (#27544414)

> Just let add me add a simple non relational table where I can have row and column headers.

Could you explain more what you mean by this? Or give an example of some software that behaves like what you're describing?

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Re:How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (... by leokennis on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:04PM (#27544506)

I’m guessing it’s the fact that every column needs to “be something” (text, number, checkbox etc.).

While in less strict systems (Word, Apple Notes, whatever) I can just create a 10x10 table, and randomly put images in one cell and text in another etc.

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Re:How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (... by makeitdouble on Thursday June 17, 2021 @07:02PM (#27545424)

not OP, but the same frustration.

Imagine a table you write in markdown, like:

| | pro | con |

|——-|————-|————-|

| A |loud |heavy|

| B |light|flimsy|

You can’t have it inlined as just a table, it needs to become a database with filterable columns that you can’t lock, you add each lines as a row etc.

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Re:How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (... by el_zako on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:43PM (#27546549)

Tables in Confluence are surprisingly good. It just works the way you expect. https://bit.ly/3xtwqXR

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Re:How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (... by Aeolun on Thursday June 17, 2021 @10:38PM (#27546834)

Except when doing diffs, then changing something in the table blows it up entirely (well, makes it pretty useless).

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