People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

Re:People who use Notion to plan their whole lives by calvinmorrison on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:37PM (#35708117)

What it gives is a step up from spreadsheets for managing everything from projects to customers. You can build a trivial CRM with a few tables.

Earlier today I thought, I need a quickie CRM. Each customer has contacts, Each customer has logged events (phone calls).

I could build a CRUD app to do this. I built it in notion in about 10 minutes.

And the thing is - a company like mine already has things like internal portals to do all sorts of stuff. Instead of a business admin asking the developers for a new field on X, he can just go build it out - but it has two killer features to excel/docs

1. Global search. I cant stand having a million different excel sheets where nothing is linked. Even if notion search can be slow - typing in something and getting an answer is a breath of relief

2. Has way better structured data, templates and plugins out of the box ( I can just do remote data to jira, bitbucket, etc).

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Re:People who use Notion to plan their whole lives by skinnymuch on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @10:29AM (#35714189)

Are you making a page per customer or the database feature? Would Airtable work better for this? I use Airtable for stuff like this personally. I use Notion for some simple work stuff too like as a CMS

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