{"id":940,"date":"2021-01-01T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/i-joined-the-notion-bandwagon\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T06:52:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T11:52:16","slug":"i-joined-the-notion-bandwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/i-joined-the-notion-bandwagon\/","title":{"rendered":"I joined the Notion App Bandwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally caved and joined the Notion bandwagon.<\/p>\n

I first found out about Notion via ProductHunt<\/a> in late 2018. \u00a0Then I started playing with the app in early 2019. At the time, I used Bear for note-taking on my Mac. I also heavily used Google Docs, Sheets, & Slides. All the docs were organized in folders, but it was still confusing to find a doc or excel quickly.<\/p>\n

It was a hacked-together system, but it worked for me. Still, I felt there had to be a better way. I kept asking on Twitter and friends what note taking app they used. Notion was recommended 60 to 70 percent of the time. The other 30 to 40 percent of the time was Roam Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why I didn’t choose Roam Research<\/h3>\n

Roam Research is an appealing note-taking app that turns the ordinary notebook & organizational model on its head. The app is a “note-taking tool for networked thought,” which means almost all notes are somehow interconnected.<\/p>\n

Roam is an excellent tool for journalists, researchers, and others to fit their thoughts and research together. I felt a bit overwhelmed with the process. Instead of a file cabinet approach, everything is interconnected on a graph (shown below).<\/p>\n

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