Item: Notion
Rating: 10
Author: Alejandro Mujica

Overall Satisfaction with Notion

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Notion in my personal life as well as in my organization, we use it as a notekeeper & a like a wiki with info from various common processes from the organization, these are mostly processes from human resources regarding policies, time tracking, activities & other useful materials.We also use it as i mentioned earlier, as a notetaker for meetings, using to save transcriptions of meeting, and keeping useful links, we also used templates to use it in our sprint planning/retrospective and Sprint Review!

Pros and Cons

Pros

Various document templates
Ease of use
Versatility
Collaborative documents

Cons

Tutorials
Too much Customization
Bad mobile app experience compared to desktop
Formulas in Notion can be a pain to work with

Return on Investment

Increased Productivity - Diminish employee search time of documents by 20%
Improved Collaboration - Use of collaborative documents in the organization became widespread
Better Knowledge Management

Usability

Honestly, ease to use & setup, also the flexibility that it gives with the use of premade templates that we can modify them to fit specific needs, wether we want to use it for project management, knowledge base or note-taking, the interface it's streamlined and easy to use with drag and drop features.

Alternatives Considered

ClickUp, Evernote and Atlassian Confluence

I don't think that Notion stacks to some of them, i mean i think it's better than Evernote with all it's features, but you really can't compare it that well with ClickUp and Confluence, i mean those are after all deeply rooted to the project management aspect of ClickUp and Jira respectively. in the note taking aspect, and with all the templates, Notion smashes them, but when you consider features like embedding tasks in ClickUp documents or using Jira Queries to populate Confluence documents, it just can't compete

Key Insights

Do you think Notion delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Notion's feature set?

Yes

Did Notion live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Notion go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Notion again?

Yes

Other Software Used

ClickUp, Atlassian Jira, Wrike

Likelihood to Recommend

I would say that i usually would recommend Notion to a colleague, it's a fun app to have really, it makes your life easier with a lot of templates! I honestly ended up using it even for my personal life, to carry notes, do some note taking, i also use it to write my tasks for the day & my university schedule. I would say you should adjust your expectations for it though, it's great for the use of it's various templates, but i would keep more serious technical documentation in other places.

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Notion is a great value! Templates are really useful!

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