<aside> 📢 Diese Beschreibung hatte ich für Tools for Historians Notion verfasst.
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Notion is a note taking app but the tool’s core features are ‘databases’ that can be integrated in any page, the ability to quickly create sub-pages, link to other pages, create complex templates and to re-use parts from your other notion pages. This makes it possible to create complex but clean pages (like this one) and networks of interconnected pages, tailored to your project. Pages can be public readable making Notero a publishing platform, too. Notero is easy to use and to learn, even for people who are feeling not very tech-savvy — the WYSIWYG interface is quite user-friendly.
Notion offers a limited “Free” Plan that will be sufficient for the casual user. If Notion suddenly becomes one of your most important tools (it happens!) the “Plus” plan for 10$ a month will most likely fit your needs and offer features like being able to roll back a page to an earlier stage.
For academic users Notion offers a “Education” plan that is also free. You just have to sign up with your university eMail address.
Ease of use, support quality and speed, flexibility, design and typography.
It’s cloud based without an offline option. No internet connection: no luck. According to the company there are planning an offline version, though. If you rely heavily on Notion and the company should get out of business, your carefully created databases full of important information will be very hard to
You can export all of your data. But you’ll have to find ways (and do some coding, most likely) to make them useful outside of Notion.