Tietoja Notionista

Hei! Jos luet tätä nyt, olet varmaankin samassa tilanteessa kuin minäkin – vietät suurimman osan päivistäsi toimistolla tietokoneen ääressä.

You probably have fifteen tabs open: one for email, one for Slack, one for Google Docs, and on, and on…But have you ever thought about where these "work tools" came from? Or why there are so many of them?To answer these questions, and to explain why we created Notion, we have to travel back in time.

As people flooded to factories during the Industrial Revolution, many tools were invented to ease the management overload.Typewriters replaced illegible handwriting. File cabinets stored more information than any clerk could remember (and also won the gold medal at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair!)Tools like these paved the way for offices as we know them today.

Sitten voimmekin siirtyä 1950-luvulle, kun tietokoneet tulivat töihin kanssamme.Ensin ne olivat elottomia, koko huoneen vaativia kapistuksia, jotka toimivat paperin ja reikäkorttien avulla. Niitä käytettiin vain laskemiseen.

Then something magical happened in the 1970s!A generation of pioneers saw the computer as something far beyond a number-crunching machine. They dreamt a future where computers could amplify imagination (Alan Kay), augment intellect (Doug Engelbart), and expand our thoughts far beyond text on paper (Ted Nelson).A tool unlike anything we have seen before.

But things didn't turn out that way. As the legend goes, when Steve Jobs "borrowed" the ideas behind personal computing from Xerox PARC, many subtle, but crucial, differences were lost. Hit play and listen to the man himself.

Ja nyt olemme nykyhetkessä.Google Docs teki kirjoituskoneista muiden kanssa jaettavia. Dropbox vei arkistokaapit pilveen. Mutta varsinaiset ajatukset niiden taustalla eivät ole juurikaan kehittyneet sitten teollisen vallankumouksen.Teippaamme kaiken kasaan sähköpostien, kopioimisen ja liittämisen ja lukemattomien avointen välilehtien avulla.

That's where Notion comes in. We want to break away from today's tools—and bring back some of the ideas of those early pioneers.As a first step, we are blending much of your workflow into an all-in-one workspace. Want a task list? A product roadmap? A design repository? They are now all in one place. You can even customize your own workspace from dozens of LEGO-style building blocks.Solve your problems your way, bounded only by your imagination.

Toivottavasti ymmärrät nyt, miksi halusimme perustaa Notionin. Vallitsevan tilanteen haastaminen on aina vaikeaa. Tutustu tuotteeseen! Kirjoita siitä! Tarvitsemme kaltaisiasi varhaisia omaksujia, jotta liike pääsisi alkuun. Nähdään pian!