Notion for mac8/4/2023 ![]() Heck, even TextEdit with iCloud will work, depending on your use cases.Īnd that’s the point that the referenced article completely overlooks. Perhaps iAWriter will meet your needs, or the aforementioned Obsidian. Yell, holler and scream too, but it’s not changing. Put your head in the sand and ignore it if you’d like. With regard to subscriptions, they are here to stay. Price, flexibility, capability, data portability are all factors, and there are countless more. Go in with eyes wide open, please.ĭetermine your needs, wants and then non-negotiables first, and then evaluate accordingly. It’s important to know what the pros and cons are for any app or service. I like Notion, I like Stile, I don’t need the added complexity or features of Coda. ![]() ![]() It’s part of my due diligence to see what will and won’t work for me for my particular needs. The author didn’t even touch on this.Īgain, I’m not saying they are perfect, but what software application or service is? When was the last time you bought an app or used a service didn’t need updates and improve on functionality over time?Įven the lauded DEVONThink app wasn’t (and isn’t) without its fair share of issues.įull disclosure,I have free and paid accounts for all the services I mentioned here. I’ve found solutions to most of my import and export issues by using their provided API’s. It falls in to the good enough, but not perfect category for me. I’ve been able to export to and from Notion, Stile and others with minor issues in formatting. Text and Markdown exports work quite well in my own tests. Most of these services do offer an export capability. Ditto for digital media companies and their paywalls, or the Public utilities you pay for every single month. Just like Apple, Google and Amazon have walled gardens to keep you tied to their services, so do these companies. If I’m going to pay that much for an app and service, being able to export what’s yours should be easy. Try to export your documents out of Coda for example, sure you’ll get your text, but forget about formatting or meta data. It’s a competitive market, and guess what, there are other services/apps that are even worse. Take a look at this all-in-one app space: Coda, Stile, Workflowy, Quip, Google Keep, One Note, and more. The style of writing just isn’t my cup of tea. In certain contexts, any one of them can be absolutely valid. I don’t have an issue with many of his/her arguments. That’s not a judgement, it’s a hypothesis. I think the airier was using Notion as an excuse to rant. That lack of basis and subsequent context makes the article pointless. Notice the author never mentions what he/she is using Notion for? What’s important, what’s the purpose behind using Notion or any one of the other all-in-one apps? No idea. Oh yeah, and now we even have Internet at 30k feet so we don’t even need to be offline when we fly around the planet. I’ve used a number of these kinds of apps on mobile devices (Android, iOS, iPadOS) and PCs (both Windows and Macs) and they work offline and will sync when the Internet is available.īack when I could travel, I would use these services all the time and never had an issue sync new notes, pages or edits when I was connected again. Can’t get online? Go to a coffee shop, fast food joint, Home Depot, or Lowe’s or get satellite Internet if it’s that important. Did the author try a mobile device? How about a Mac?Ī very narrow use case doesn’t make the entire app or service “bad.” And by the way, I used Notion on my Dell and Lenovo Windows 10 PCs without Internet and didn’t have any issues with offline mode.Īlso, it’s 2020 Internet access is everywhere. This is Mac Power Users the example of offline capabilities not working was a Windows only use case. ![]() Had he or she looked, they would have seen that Notion does support importing from Evernote. Notion no longer limits its free tier, and there are a lot of ways to export data out of Evernote. It’s a poorly written article that’s dated and has a clear bias.
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