r/Notion

I burned through the AI quota Notion business ships with. After this I topped up twice with 1000 credits, but they burn extremely quickly on Auto (which I assumed would pick the most economic option).

I already do heavy tasks outside Notion – yet also need AI in Notion. Which models do you recommend for being cheap? Unfortunately Notion has removed that label from the tooltip of each engine.

Hey Notion friends,

I work in marketing an handle a large amount of videos.

I've build out my video database in Notion but worrying about the scalability, hoping to find someone who has pressure tested this.

With research it seems like, as long as these are true I'll be good:

- File is under 5gb

- I'm on the paid plan

- I don't use MP4 files (which can be compressed as per this doc from notion)

- I've been reassured this can have "unlimited overall volume of file uploads on all paid plans" by the link above as well.

Thanks in advance if anyone has used this as a niche use case and takes the time to comment

PS- This year I committed to building everything personal and work into Notion and am absolutely loving it! Feel so much more organized than the google drive and local storage days. So happy.

I love using notion and have tried to make it my main app for anything organisational. This means moving all my calendar stuff over to Notion Calendar.

It’s fine on desktop by holy heck it is awful on iOS.

In whose mind was it a good design idea to show a max of 3 days at a time (also why can’t I view a whole day in one full screen ?! I have to scroll to see what’s on throughout the day). The next furthest out view is a month view in which I can’t even see which days have events ?!

I feel like I’m trying to organise my calendar like an artist trying to paint a canvas but I’ve got binoculars strapped to my face.

I know there has been heaps written about this but I just wanted to rant. It’s astounds me how bad this is.

Someone in another thread for Notion mentioned another product and it is leaps better, and that is the first other calendar app I’ve downloaded, no research done. So I imagine there are a plethora of better products out there…

Un plan que te haga feliz 😄 eso motiva

Hello everyone,

it seems like many people, especially students, treat Notion as something which should be used as "a must-have tool". I've tried it but I should admit I simply do not see the sense behind it.

I am a university student and now I am following 4 courses, which means I have about 7 exams per academic year. The thing is, I don’t view myself as a rare student enrolled in an unusual field of study. I am regular student, with a schedule and everyday commitments no different from those of many other university students, including those who are so fond of this application. When people praise Notion, they highlight the following features which are absolutely useless for me:

• Plan what you are going to learn: I have 4 subjects to follow. All I have to do is to open my notes and continue from the place where I finished my studying yesterday. I do not need any database to remind me to study and what to study because this is basically my daily routine.
• Your class schedule: after 3 weeks of attending lectures I've already memorized my schedule, so there is no need for any dedicated dashboard to find out where I have to be.
• Grades and GPA: I have 7 exams per year. Calculation of my average grade is done in seconds on a calculator and my university has its own application, where all grades are tracked.
• Project Deadlines: I am more exam-oriented than project-oriented in my studies, so I do not have multiple step-by-step projects that I need to keep track of.

I totally agree that Notion would be the saving grace of somebody working with 10 clients or anyone who as several meetings everyday. However, is having everything in one app really such a game-changer, or is it all just a fancy convenience?

Am I doing something wrong? Would love to hear from experienced users!

Most workspace tours show what people added. I’m more interested in what eventually became maintenance.

A database, relation, formula, dashboard, tag system — what did you remove because keeping it current took more work than it saved?

What did you replace it with, if anything?

I swear this sub is becoming r/LeavingNotion.

Every time I open Reddit it’s: “I’m unsubscribing.” “The AI sucks.” “Notion has lost its way.”
And of course the eternal classic: “I’m switching to Obsidian.”

Cool. Great. Godspeed. There are 9 billion productivity apps now. Use the one you like. But this is r/NOTION.

This is a tool where people can build almost anything. A dashboard that tracks obscure things that you wouldn’t really think about, entire business systems, CRMs, Completely psychotic databases that somehow run somebody’s whole life.
THAT is the cool part.

And yet somehow the mods will nuke genuinely interesting builds or plugin posts because “self promotion,” while the 800th AI breakup essay floats straight to the top of the sub untouched.

How does that make any sense?!?!

If someone spent 30 hours building some insane Notion system and wants to show it off, I WANT TO SEE IT. IT’S PROBABLY FREAKING AWESOME!

If someone spent 2 years building out a plugin, I want to see that even more!

If they built a weird workflow that only makes sense to six people on Earth, PERFECT. THAT’S WHY NOTION EXISTS.

If there’s a little self promo attached? Fine. I would rather see someone actually MAKING SOMETHING than another 2,000-word farewell letter to a note-taking app. Like what are we huffing in here?

I’m not saying nobody can criticize Notion. Obviously criticize it. The AI stuff is stupid, yes. So don’t use it. I don’t, and I still love Notion.

But holy shit, the balance is completely cooked.
This sub used to make me want to open Notion and build something.

Now half the time it feels like I accidentally joined a support group for people recovering from Notion.
The mods have kicked the air out of the whole thing by being weirdly hostile to builders while letting endless complaint posts dominate the feed.
I like Notion. No disrespect to the mods, I know you put in a lot of work, but the way this place is moderated is suffocating the builders.

Please, for the love of all that is holy on this green Earth, let people post cool Notion shit again.
Ok rant over.

Petty complaint, but I add emojis to every task. Whenever I click "Add icon," it always defaults to the Notion Icons tab, forcing an extra click over to the Emoji tab every single time. Those extra clicks add up when processing dozens of items a day.

Is there a setting that forces the picker to open directly on the Emoji tab?

I already know how to use Notion technically, but I’m more interested in seeing how people actually use it in their daily lives

What do you use Notion to organize or keep track of? Things like tasks, projects, notes, and habits

I’d love to see how other people structure their Notion and what they’ve found genuinely useful