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It works well with AI tools, but collaboration becomes painful fast, especially for comments and async feedback. What worked best for us was sp", "context": "", "use_case": "docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Leaving Notion, Codebase as a Wiki?"}]}, {"label": "Agent workflows", "summary": "Users report block-based content corrupting with multiple agents, API-only agent access, and weaker results from in-app LLMs.", "quotes": [{"id": 774277713, "item_id": 48392357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392357", "by": "ksajadi", "date": "2026-06-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Notion ended up being a royal pain: it is built for humans not agents.", "excerpt": "I tend to agree with the rest of the commenters that the most likely outcome is that harnesses will include features like this. I had a slightly different issue and that was 'project-level memory' that i can use across models or harnesses (chat, claude code, etc). for a while i used Obsidian but it was not very good with hosted tools like claude.ai then i moved to a combination of Linear and Notion. Still using Linea", "context": "", "use_case": "project memory for AI agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Mnemo \u2013 local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)"}, {"id": 764498835, "item_id": 47781177, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781177", "by": "mark-weiss", "date": "2026-04-15", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Notion and Google Docs work better for teams, but agents have to go through APIs", "excerpt": "Moxn is a collaborative editor with git-like version control for documents and a filesystem interface for agents. Even before AI, I wanted docs to behave more like repos for two reasons: - With multiple users live-editing in the same doc, the content I was working on would bounce around in the UI. - I'm naturally iterative and I don\u2019t one-shot prose well. Collaborating with AI added two more pain points: - Multiple a", "context": "", "use_case": "team docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Moxn \u2013 Git-like version control for collaborative docs"}, {"id": 788794208, "item_id": 49299638, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299638", "by": "Nicholas_C", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use ChatGPT/Claude/etc in the Notion web app now to organize my pages of knowledge", "excerpt": "> Second, as I dive deeper, I need a way to organize the information in a useful way as I begin to branch out in many different directions. This is the issue with using ChatGPT as-is in the web app. I use ChatGPT/Claude/etc in the Notion web app now to organize my pages of knowledge and keep everything organized. That said, ChatGPT/Claude in Notion seems to produce inferior results than using them directly which is f", "context": "", "use_case": "organizing knowledge", "switched_from": "", "story": "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"}]}, {"label": "Large pages", "summary": "One user's very large pages crash on mobile and tablet, so they can only open them on desktop.", "quotes": [{"id": 739828192, "item_id": 46239262, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239262", "by": "JeremyHerrman", "date": "2025-12-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use never-ending notion pages like this and now they have grown so large that they crash on mobile / tablet", "excerpt": "I use never-ending notion pages like this and now they have grown so large that they crash on mobile / tablet so I can only access via desktop. If anyone knows of a good rich markdown / block based editor that can handle huge pages let me know!", "context": "", "use_case": "long running notes pages", "switched_from": "", "story": "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"}]}, {"label": "Keyboard shortcuts", "summary": "One user says shortcuts fail on non-US keyboard layouts and cannot be changed.", "quotes": [{"id": 775918464, "item_id": 48494904, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48494904", "by": "KomoD", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I tried using it, but I just can't because the keyboard shortcuts don't work with my non-US keyboard layout", "excerpt": "I don't really agree. I tried using it, but I just can't because the keyboard shortcuts don't work with my non-US keyboard layout, and I couldn't change them... I have seen other people complain about the same thing.", "context": "non-US keyboard layout user", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?"}]}, {"label": "Data ownership", "summary": "Some users raise privacy concerns and dislike that the platform, not the user, controls their data.", "quotes": [{"id": 751557474, "item_id": 46972342, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972342", "by": "mekod", "date": "2026-02-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Notion is a hotel; comfortable, but they own the keys.", "excerpt": "Hello HN, I built Ledger because I felt like a \"guest\" on every writing platform I used. Notion is a hotel; comfortable, but they own the keys. Medium is a billboard; they own the traffic. I wanted a house where I held the deed. So, yes, it is another blogging platform. But here is the difference: It stores absolutely nothing. I have no database. (Actually, it exists if you want.) 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I'm a data hoarder and love to organize things, but I kept jumping from app to app - started with Notion, but was frustrated with", "context": "", "use_case": "personal management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Solyto \u2013 a free, open-source all-in-one personal management app"}]}], "who": [{"by": "coffeethursday", "context": "VC", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313325", "date": "2026-10-31"}, {"by": "seifbenayed1992", "context": "startup founder", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975300", "date": "2026-10-06"}, {"by": "b-karl", "context": "uses it at their company", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952046", "date": "2026-10-04"}, {"by": "lsh0", "context": "long-time tiling WM user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840700", "date": "2026-09-25"}, {"by": "HMETechnologies", "context": "hiring at a media company", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059654", "date": "2026-05-08"}, {"by": "tekacs", "context": "early user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917015", "date": "2026-04-26"}, {"by": "atmosx", "context": "small team", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545812", "date": "2026-01-08"}], "tags": ["for teams", "for personal knowledge bases", "for AI agent workflows", "for blog publishing"], "use_cases": ["documentation", "note-taking", "notes", "team docs", "ticketing and specs", "writing blog posts as cms"], "compared": [{"slug": "obsidian", "name": "Obsidian", "co": 14, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 3}, {"slug": "evernote", "name": "Evernote", "co": 3, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "google-docs", "name": "Google Docs", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "apple-notes", "name": "Apple Notes", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "linear", "name": "Linear", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "kraa", "name": "Kraa", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486225", "title": "Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313324", "title": "Show HN: How I take notes as a VC, and the app I built for it", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50014150", "title": "Show HN: Edi Life OS \u2013 self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970144", "title": "Ask HN: Feedback regarding my AI setup", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945933", "title": "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892723", "title": "Show HN: Publish a Notion database as a Next.js blog", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"warn": 2, "neutral": 2}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-02": {"warn": 3}, "2026-03": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 2}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 2, "compare": 1, "warn": 1, "recommend": 2}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {"warn": 2, "neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {"warn": 1, "compare": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 3}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 4}}, "quotes": [{"id": 805013202, "item_id": 50313325, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313325", "by": "coffeethursday", "date": "2026-10-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "bandwagoned onto Notion and Obsidian", "excerpt": "If it's not obvious from the title, I'm a VC and I spend a ton of time in meetings with founders. What's less obvious is all the other things. After treading water for at least a decade, I am deeply suspect of any VC's organizational capabilities. Mostly my own. Believe it or not, for the longest time, my notes lived in saved (and unsaved) text files in Sublime Text. At some point I've tried using TiddlyWiki, bandwag", "context": "VC", "use_case": "note-taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: How I take notes as a VC, and the app I built for it"}, {"id": 800460496, "item_id": 50028781, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028781", "by": "toppa33", "date": "2026-10-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Notion too.", "excerpt": "I use Notion too. Claude suggested a MCP in front of Notion with rules about how to update Notion pages, and another MCP for other actions over Tailscale.", "context": "", "use_case": "notes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Edi Life OS \u2013 self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI"}, {"id": 799604800, "item_id": 49975300, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975300", "by": "seifbenayed1992", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "so I use Notion, linear and add a simple artefact for my non technical team", "excerpt": "So I build my startup and we use to work a lot via WhatsApp which wasn't very efficient so we decide to switch via ticketing system so I use Notion, linear and add a simple artefact for my non technical team so they can grilling and create a brief which become a spec then tickets. this is mainly now for me to push small bug fixes ( for now) or simple features but maybe few things need to improve.", "context": "startup founder", "use_case": "ticketing and specs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Feedback regarding my AI setup"}, {"id": 799232737, "item_id": 49952046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952046", "by": "b-karl", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "docs in repos or Notion etc", "excerpt": "We use Claude Code in our company and I also agree memories go stale and pollute the context over time, especially when the state changes externally. E.g. someone does a refactor or introduces a pattern and I was not involved in developing it so my local memories did not get aligned. My most recent example were some deprecated and archived repos that kept getting added to plans for patching issues. We use a private C", "context": "uses it at their company", "use_case": "documentation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation"}, {"id": 798283920, "item_id": 49892745, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892745", "by": "loriscomba", "date": "2026-09-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use Notion to write and edit our blog posts", "excerpt": "Hi HN, I\u2019m Loris. We use Notion to write and edit our blog posts, and I wanted to share the setup that connects it to our website. The workflow is simple: write an article in Notion, check Published, and the website picks it up through a webhook. Later edits follow the same path. The database stays private. I\u2019ve put together a Next.js 16 template with the code and setup instructions. You can run it with sample conten", "context": "", "use_case": "writing blog posts as CMS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Publish a Notion database as a Next.js blog"}, {"id": 797451200, "item_id": 49840700, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840700", "by": "lsh0", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Me too! Never moved off of it: https://notionwm.net/", "excerpt": "> Tiling window managers aren't new though, I went through my tiling phase 25 years ago (Ion). Me too! Never moved off of it: https://notionwm.net/", "context": "long-time tiling WM user", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"}, {"id": 796559840, "item_id": 49784990, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784990", "by": "madarco", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've done the same but using Notion, and I've found really interesting to let the agents write a small \"Dev Blog\" post on a Notion page", "excerpt": "I've done the same but using Notion, and I've found really interesting to let the agents write a small \"Dev Blog\" post on a Notion page with what they built in the sessions, with screenshots, videos etc. Also working with parallel sandboxes is a must: I use a manger session that read/write the issues from Notion and dispatch them to workers, it handles similar work to the same box to minimize merge conflicts. PS: I'm", "context": "", "use_case": "agent issue tracking and dev blog", "switched_from": "", "story": "Trying the software factory pattern"}, {"id": 790493393, "item_id": 49405837, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405837", "by": "mmargenot", "date": "2026-08-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I\u2019m still locked into notion for my handwritten knowledge base", "excerpt": "This is so cool! For the time being I\u2019m still locked into notion for my handwritten knowledge base, but I love this for incorporating external information. For the semantic search is there any chunking/processing that happens with the content or do you need to be diligent about having a large embedding context (and/or small content)?", "context": "", "use_case": "knowledge base", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hister \u2013 private, self hosted search engine"}, {"id": 789526272, "item_id": 49345392, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345392", "by": "robbru", "date": "2026-08-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Notion Enterprise specifically for its Zero Data Retention (ZDR) access.", "excerpt": "I use Notion Enterprise specifically for its Zero Data Retention (ZDR) access. Fable does not offer ZDR, so Notion provides a dedicated settings toggle that disables Fable outright.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI access with zero data retention", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"}, {"id": 788794208, "item_id": 49299638, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299638", "by": "Nicholas_C", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use ChatGPT/Claude/etc in the Notion web app now to organize my pages of knowledge", "excerpt": "> Second, as I dive deeper, I need a way to organize the information in a useful way as I begin to branch out in many different directions. This is the issue with using ChatGPT as-is in the web app. I use ChatGPT/Claude/etc in the Notion web app now to organize my pages of knowledge and keep everything organized. That said, ChatGPT/Claude in Notion seems to produce inferior results than using them directly which is f", "context": "", "use_case": "organizing knowledge", "switched_from": "", "story": "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"}, {"id": 786064995, "item_id": 49129062, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129062", "by": "Luka_Takki", "date": "2026-07-31", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Quizlet, Khan Academy, Notion, and Gizmo are all great, but each only handles one piece of the puzzle.", "excerpt": "We're a team of 15-year-old students who ran into the same frustration every time we sat down to study: having to constantly switch between four different apps just to review for one test. Quizlet, Khan Academy, Notion, and Gizmo are all great, but each only handles one piece of the puzzle. That\u2019s why we created Reviscio\u2014a free, all-in-one study platform that brings notes, flashcards, quizzes, exam prep, personalized", "context": "", "use_case": "notes", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're 15-year-olds tired of switching study apps, so we built our own"}, {"id": 782616049, "item_id": 48913503, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913503", "by": "duguyue100", "date": "2026-07-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm relying on a notion calendar table which is annoyingly feature rich", "excerpt": "During work, I developed a habit of keeping a separate daily planner alongside our ticketing system and calendar to organize my day of work. I don't need a fully featured calender, I need something very minimum. So far, I'm relying on a notion calendar table which is annoyingly feature rich and defeats the purpose of having a lightweight way of CRUD entries. So, I decide to make a minimum planning calendar plugin mys", "context": "", "use_case": "daily planner", "switched_from": "", "story": "Planning: A minimal Neovim planning calendar plugin"}, {"id": 778948371, "item_id": 48684273, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48684273", "by": "nitin7", "date": "2026-06-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "When collaborating on Notion, we had to pop into Google docs for comments, suggestions and history.", "excerpt": "This is interesting and a promising start. I gave this a shot. I'd love to see support for Bases and obsidian plugins that are typescript/open source anyway - I use a few such as excalidraw/mermaid etc. I also want to use my local model. When collaborating on Notion, we had to pop into Google docs for comments, suggestions and history. I see this as important even when working with AI on something.", "context": "", "use_case": "team collaboration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: OpenKnowledge \u2013 open-source alternative to Obsidian/Notion"}, {"id": 775918464, "item_id": 48494904, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48494904", "by": "KomoD", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I tried using it, but I just can't because the keyboard shortcuts don't work with my non-US keyboard layout", "excerpt": "I don't really agree. I tried using it, but I just can't because the keyboard shortcuts don't work with my non-US keyboard layout, and I couldn't change them... I have seen other people complain about the same thing.", "context": "non-US keyboard layout user", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?"}, {"id": 775780080, "item_id": 48486255, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486255", "by": "Adam-Hincu", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i think it\u2019s notion, it\u2019s well thought.", "excerpt": "For me, i think it\u2019s notion, it\u2019s well thought.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?"}, {"id": 775266643, "item_id": 48454165, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454165", "by": "seriocomic", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "started with Notion", "excerpt": "A Few: - Augsentric [https://www.augsentric.com] - probably my biggest time/AI sink - for evaluating websites - FencePost - [https://github.com/seriocomic/FencePost] - a UI for multi-host Firewall rules (UFW) - EventFeed (private repo) - a timeline of events on my network in a centralized UI - Ledger (private repo) - personalized finance ledger using bank statements The biggest unblock remains the tools/scripts/skill", "context": "", "use_case": "documentation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 774277713, "item_id": 48392357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392357", "by": "ksajadi", "date": "2026-06-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Notion ended up being a royal pain: it is built for humans not agents.", "excerpt": "I tend to agree with the rest of the commenters that the most likely outcome is that harnesses will include features like this. I had a slightly different issue and that was 'project-level memory' that i can use across models or harnesses (chat, claude code, etc). for a while i used Obsidian but it was not very good with hosted tools like claude.ai then i moved to a combination of Linear and Notion. Still using Linea", "context": "", "use_case": "project memory for AI agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Mnemo \u2013 local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)"}, {"id": 768954470, "item_id": 48059654, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059654", "by": "HMETechnologies", "date": "2026-05-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We use Slack, Notion, and Google Docs.", "excerpt": "HME Technologies | AI Operations Lead | REMOTE | Full-Time | $40k-$75k base + Bonus HME Technologies (https://hmetech.com/) is a small, profitable media and affiliate marketing company. We build audiences, sell sponsorships, and run a growing portfolio of content properties across YouTube and emerging platforms. We're operator-run, AI-native, and looking for our first AI Operations Lead to work directly with the co-f", "context": "hiring at a media company", "use_case": "team docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"}, {"id": 766672242, "item_id": 47917015, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917015", "by": "tekacs", "date": "2026-04-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was a super super early user of Notion", "excerpt": "I would be curious what you think of the idea of Sail and Muddy being... small. Technically complex, but small in the mind of the user. Not lacking in features (you talked about that), but 'feeling small/bounded, and therefore with small divergence' to the user. Does that... fit at all with your mental model of them? I ask because I feel like Linear, Vercel, Figma, Notion, hell even Airtable... landed 'big' (felt lik", "context": "early user", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Lessons from Building Multiplayer Browsers"}, {"id": 765239136, "item_id": 47827446, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827446", "by": "jdgiese", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Notion and use it extremely heavily.", "excerpt": "I love Notion and use it extremely heavily. I've also built a few integrations with Notion. I think it's a great app that uses AI very well, and they continue improving. Hopefully they fix this though! Also, their API has recently been upgraded quite a bit and now supports database views as a first class object. I have a few other small requests regarding their public API.", "context": "", "use_case": "heavy daily use, API integrations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page"}, {"id": 765064273, "item_id": 47816517, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816517", "by": "Leomuck", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "started with Notion, but was frustrated with speed and then privacy issues", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been building something over the last year, with probably 1000 hours going into it. A personal management app that does almost everything while being privacy-focused, no-bullshit, open-source and selfhostable. It\u2019s called solyto. I've been frustrated for a while with what's out there. I'm a data hoarder and love to organize things, but I kept jumping from app to app - started with Notion, but was frustrated with", "context": "", "use_case": "personal management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Solyto \u2013 a free, open-source all-in-one personal management app"}, {"id": 764683648, "item_id": 47792728, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792728", "by": "traceseal", "date": "2026-04-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It send them to notion notes as todos notes", "excerpt": "I use my AI assistant where possible and quickly use the voice message to just dump ideas or anything that just pops up in my mind and It send them to notion notes as todos notes than every time I think what was I thinking about I go to notion and check the todos that I labeled nonsense for a reason", "context": "", "use_case": "storing todo notes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anyone else has notes they never go back to?"}, {"id": 764498835, "item_id": 47781177, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781177", "by": "mark-weiss", "date": "2026-04-15", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Notion and Google Docs work better for teams, but agents have to go through APIs", "excerpt": "Moxn is a collaborative editor with git-like version control for documents and a filesystem interface for agents. Even before AI, I wanted docs to behave more like repos for two reasons: - With multiple users live-editing in the same doc, the content I was working on would bounce around in the UI. - I'm naturally iterative and I don\u2019t one-shot prose well. Collaborating with AI added two more pain points: - Multiple a", "context": "", "use_case": "team docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Moxn \u2013 Git-like version control for collaborative docs"}, {"id": 764158529, "item_id": 47759908, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759908", "by": "ahmadyan", "date": "2026-04-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I do miss the visual editor in Notion", "excerpt": "A few months ago, i took the bullet and migrated my notes from Notion to .md files. This was the second time i migrated my notes (last time from Evernote to Notion), and this time it was a lot easier. Kudos to the Notion team for making export so easy. Just downloaded the notes, then told Claude to organize and remove duplicate or index mds (Notion keeps a lot of random indexes) and clean up and within 30mins i had a", "context": "", "use_case": "previous note-taking", "switched_from": "Evernote", "story": "An Introduction to Obsidian"}, {"id": 761009793, "item_id": 47563112, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563112", "by": "saadn92", "date": "2026-03-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "a sync tool that pulls Notion pages down as local markdown", "excerpt": "There's something really satisfying about these kinds of personal pipelines. You stitch together a few tools that weren't designed to work together, automate the glue, and end up with something that fits your workflow better than any single product could. I love it. I've built a few of these for myself -- a bridge that exposes Apple Notes over HTTP so I can access them from a Linux VM, a sync tool that pulls Notion p", "context": "", "use_case": "syncing pages to markdown", "switched_from": "", "story": "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"}, {"id": 760766033, "item_id": 47547877, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547877", "by": "kaflow", "date": "2026-03-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Notion is great, but for day to day work it quickly turns into \u201cbuild your own system\u201d.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been through this exact loop. Notion is great, but for day to day work it quickly turns into \u201cbuild your own system\u201d. Databases, relations, workflows\u2026 and you end up maintaining the tool instead of using it. We also tried the opposite with everything in markdown and git. It works well with AI tools, but collaboration becomes painful fast, especially for comments and async feedback. What worked best for us was sp", "context": "", "use_case": "docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Leaving Notion, Codebase as a Wiki?"}, {"id": 756673938, "item_id": 47292121, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292121", "by": "jdanielnd", "date": "2026-03-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I tried Notion, spreadsheets, and a few CRM apps, but they were all too heavy for what I needed.", "excerpt": "Hey HN, I built a personal CRM that lives entirely in the terminal. I kept losing track of people \u2014 who I met at conferences, what we discussed, when I last followed up. I tried Notion, spreadsheets, and a few CRM apps, but they were all too heavy for what I needed. I just wanted something fast that I could use without leaving the terminal. crm-cli stores everything in a local SQLite file (~/.crm/crm.db). Single bina", "context": "", "use_case": "tracking contacts", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: CRM-CLI \u2013 A local-first personal CRM for the terminal with MCP server"}, {"id": 754266769, "item_id": 47141673, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141673", "by": "Bondig", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "whatever lousy project management tool we would use (Notion, ClickUp, Jira etc..)", "excerpt": "Some Background Info: I have spent the last 6 years building startups and as tools, automation and eventually AI became the standard to maintaining and gaining competitive advantages, I kept running into the same problems. Execution as a whole was fragmented with strategy living on some doc. Tasks where in whatever lousy project management tool we would use (Notion, ClickUp, Jira etc..). Conversations happened on sev", "context": "", "use_case": "project management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Agently an AI Work OS that turns docs, chats, and tasks into execution"}, {"id": 753494641, "item_id": 47093415, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47093415", "by": "Hovertruck", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I don't think I love it as much as I used to.", "excerpt": "Much of this matches my own experience. A few thoughts: 1. Cost tracking meetings with your finance team are useful, but for AWS and other services that support it I highly recommend setting billing alarms. The sooner you can know about runaway costs, the sooner you can do something about it. 2. Highly recommend PGAnalyze (https://pganalyze.com/) if you're running Postgres in your stack. It's really intuitive, and ha", "context": "", "use_case": "documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years"}, {"id": 751557474, "item_id": 46972342, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972342", "by": "mekod", "date": "2026-02-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Notion is a hotel; comfortable, but they own the keys.", "excerpt": "Hello HN, I built Ledger because I felt like a \"guest\" on every writing platform I used. Notion is a hotel; comfortable, but they own the keys. Medium is a billboard; they own the traffic. I wanted a house where I held the deed. So, yes, it is another blogging platform. But here is the difference: It stores absolutely nothing. I have no database. (Actually, it exists if you want.) Bring Your Own Database (BYOD): It c", "context": "", "use_case": "writing platform", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Ledger \u2013 Yes, another blogging platform (but you own the database)"}, {"id": 746587874, "item_id": 46661742, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661742", "by": "dakheera47", "date": "2026-01-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "i treat notion as my \"source of truth\", not because it's good, just because it's what i've been using since the start.", "excerpt": "i built JobOps, basically a devops style pipeline for my jobhunt. im in the UK, on a student visa, trying to find a graduate job that\u2019ll sponsor skilled worker. it\u2019s basically my job application process turned into a pipeline, because i got sick of the same two things happening every time: - i apply, then the link dies and i lose the job description i actually applied to - i apply, then two weeks later i can\u2019t rememb", "context": "", "use_case": "job tracking database", "switched_from": "", "story": "JobOps: DevOps thinking applied to job hunting (self-hosted, local-first)"}, {"id": 744732994, "item_id": 46545812, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545812", "by": "atmosx", "date": "2026-01-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "even though we have notion", "excerpt": "We use Doppler reminders (secrets manager SaaS - no affiliation, it\u2019s just a tool) and Slack reminders for team notifications. Additionally, we use long and detailed commits that act as \u201chowTos\u201d when manual actions is required - we just link to the commit SHA1 even though we have notion. Git docs are evolving more naturally alongside the code. Now ofc with AI fairly high quality docs can be generated and updated auto", "context": "small team", "use_case": "documentation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How do small teams make sure recurring tasks don't slip?"}, {"id": 743025280, "item_id": 46439080, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46439080", "by": "linesofcode", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I maintain a notion page for every single project.", "excerpt": "I maintain a notion page for every single project. Each page has notes about the last thing I worked on or a todo list for the future. This is simple, I add just the most basic information needed to keep me going. You could replicate the same system with just a txt file on your machine, apple notes, etc. I\u2019ve gotten into the habit of just pasting my notion todo lists into Claude code and telling it to fix things. Wor", "context": "", "use_case": "project notes and todos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects?"}, {"id": 739828192, "item_id": 46239262, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239262", "by": "JeremyHerrman", "date": "2025-12-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use never-ending notion pages like this and now they have grown so large that they crash on mobile / tablet", "excerpt": "I use never-ending notion pages like this and now they have grown so large that they crash on mobile / tablet so I can only access via desktop. If anyone knows of a good rich markdown / block based editor that can handle huge pages let me know!", "context": "", "use_case": "long running notes pages", "switched_from": "", "story": "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"}, {"id": 739676098, "item_id": 46229756, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46229756", "by": "danielfalbo", "date": "2025-12-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the slowness of Notion", "excerpt": "Author here. I previously used Next.js for my blog and Notion for my collection of linked books/resources/notes, but I wasn't happy with the compilation time of Next.js for a simple blog and the slowness of Notion. So I built my own solution for both from scratch. I use Python for the logic (zero dependencies) and SQLite for the data. I still have to migrate the data, but the core is already online at https://danielf", "context": "", "use_case": "notes and linked resources", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: prev.js: Blog/PKM SSG using SQLite and Python. Compiles in 5s on Vercel"}, {"id": 739047362, "item_id": 46190460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46190460", "by": "frankhsu", "date": "2025-12-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "other products are becoming increasingly cumbersome and slow to launch", "excerpt": "I love this product immediately after typing something in it. For the foreseeable future, I'll be using it as my first choice when I want to jot down anything. I've used products like Evernote and Notion before. Sometimes I just want to write down a fleeting idea, but other products are becoming increasingly cumbersome and slow to launch. However, if I'm going to subscribe a plan for it, I'd like some extra features,", "context": "", "use_case": "note-taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Kraa \u2013 Writing App for Everything"}, {"id": 736685682, "item_id": 46042855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46042855", "by": "arjie", "date": "2025-11-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "making a Custom GPT with a trivial Notion API", "excerpt": "Custom GPTs are pretty old, but I recently found a use for them. My wife wanted some meeting note-taking and task recording assistance and I found that making a Custom GPT with a trivial Notion API that was scoped to one page[0] with structure that was encoded in the API was a quick couple-hour thing that unlocked a lot of utility for her (the default Notion MCP is \"too broad\"). It helped that this Custom GPT sits in", "context": "", "use_case": "meeting notes storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions"}]}