Tracking your expenses in a non-spreadsheet app is really hard and just a lot of work. Additionally, if you’re working with citations and inserting citations, there are tools like Microsoft office, Google Docs that work seamlessly with your citation manager. Furthermore, these apps convert paragraphs/bullet points into weird “blocks” that are personally just not aesthetically pleasing or easy to fiddle around with. Formatting things is not as intuitive as something else like a simple word processor or using markdown. Here are just a few things that have some clearly better alternatives for each of the aspect mentioned: Long Form WritingĪnyone who writes long essays, research papers, blogs and novels knows the pain of writing something longform in Notion or “block based writing apps”. However, it is not exactly the best choice for a countless other things people appear to use it for. Notion itself looks like it has pivoted into a database management app (with some project management elements built into it) recently and does a great job at it. However, as mentioned previously, these are just very very advanced note taking apps with a bunch of other functionality built in. I recently saw a twitter user make presentations on Notion, and the first question I had was why? Isn’t it just better to use a tool that’s actually been made to develop presentations through thousands of hours of programming? Don’t get me wrong, the idea of a magical one app for everything is so enticing, it has made me want to switch to a minimalist and single app configuration multiple times to no avail. Over the last few years following productivity circles and twitter, I have come across posts/articles showing things people using these applications to try and force them to work in a way the app isn’t designed to. The analogy of fitting a square peg in a round hole comes to mind. My objection (or apprehension), however, comes from the fact when people try to use such apps for a purpose they are not meant for. If the system works for you, kudos and keep at it.
They’re meant to capture, process and create ideas and meaningful output. At the heart of it all, Notion, Obsidian, Logseq, Roam, etc. It’s incredible to watch people base their entire lives and careers using such tools. Before I begin this, I have to preface it all by saying that Notion (and similar tools that are all the craze these days) are excellent apps.
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