Takeaway

1. Notion is a visual based approach to information organisation and collaboration
2. Notion's greatest strengths are flexible forms, visual based building, and template options
3. Notion’s biggest problems are likely to be quality related, and I give a few marketing and product ideas to solve them

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Notion workspace for your workplace

Est reading time: 25 min

In the movie Inception by Christopher Nolan, the main characters wander through nested layers of dreams to carry out a task. Their actions within that layer affect the layer itself, and also the layers above or below it. Sometimes you’re interested in what’s happening in that layer, sometimes in affecting other layers.

I want you to keep that framework in mind - of layers, interaction within layers, and interaction among the layers. We'll come back to it shortly [1].

Recently, productivity startups like Notion, Coda, Roam have all raised rounds at high valuations for their size. The hustle has Notion at a $2bn valuation, Coda at $600mm, and Roam at $200mm. Considering how young these companies are [2], those are optimistic venture evaluations of the potential for such companies.

Today I want to look closer at Notion. We'll go over [3]:

1. What Notion's purpose is
2. Walkthrough of sample features
3. Suggestions for the Notion team

So that at the end of this, you'll have an idea of why these startups exist, what they look like, and how they might change for the future.

Let's get started.

1. Notion is a visual based approach to information organisation and collaboration