My best guess: Standalone Notion ChatBot.

Actually interesting way of growing user base + I assume Tec largely already existed. Just shipping in another app.

I'm looking for a tool that can take a recorded lecture (audio/video) together with the PowerPoint slides and automatically add the lecturer's explanations to the correct slide.

I don't just want a transcript or a summary, I want each slide to contain everything the lecturer said while that slide was being presented.

It would also be great if it handled medical terminology accurately.

Does anything like this exist, or what's the closest option you've found?

Hey everyone, ​I recently built a custom form builder to scratch my own itch and wanted to get your thoughts on it. I’m not here to promote, just trying to gauge if there's any interest in this outside of my own use case.

​Basically, I wanted something with low costs and custom branding, so I built a tool that does the following:

​The Output: A clean, conversational UI just like Typeform. ​

The Builder: A block-based, Notion-style editing experience.

​The Storage: All form responses are sent directly to your own Notion database. ​

The Uploads: File uploads bypass typical platform limits and go straight to your own Google Drive.

​I made this just to solve my own problems, but I'd love to hear your feedback. Is this something you would find useful?

What features would make or break it for you? ​Let me know what you think!

I've been preparing for coding interviews over the last few months and realized my biggest problem wasn't solving LeetCode problems but it was remembering the patterns later.

So I built myself a Notion system that focuses on revision instead of just tracking solved problems.

After sharing the first version, I received a lot of helpful feedback and recently rebuilt the template from scratch to make the workflow much cleaner and more useful.

It's completely free and has already been downloaded 270+ times, so I thought I'd share it here and get some feedback from fellow Notion builders.

Views Included

📊 Dashboard
A single-page overview of my interview prep with solved problems, confidence breakdown, weak patterns, today's practice, and problems due for review.

📝 All Problems
The master database where every solved problem is logged with difficulty, pattern, topic, confidence, key insights, and interview readiness.

🎯 Today's Practice
Shows what to solve today and highlights problems that deserve another review based on confidence.

🔁 Revisit Queue
Automatically groups problems by pattern and surfaces the lowest-confidence ones first, so revision is always prioritized.

📚 Focus Areas
Board views grouped by Pattern and Topic, making it easy to spot weak areas and decide what to practice next.

The whole system runs from a single database, so everything updates automatically without maintaining multiple databases.

I'd love any feedback on the dashboard design, workflow, or ideas for improving it.

Preview images below 👇

https://preview.redd.it/6odxv7o2hnbh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=6cb8927f007ec12eb43d6b6d860a423349ad06fd

Get template here : https://www.notion.com/templates/leetcode-dsa-os

usually i can export it to pdf, so i could read my note easily
but today i can't export it

its keep changing the format to htm and not downloaded

Have you built anything yet

Is notion good for language learning? I'm trying to learn German from basics, can someone give me some tips to utilize it maximum?

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every time someone posts here about losing a database, the story is the same: it worked fine for months, they never got around to backing it up, and then it was gone. by the time you're worried enough to search "how do I back up Notion," you're usually already past the point where it would have mattered.. because the loss already happened.

the trash window is 30 days. after that, nothing.. not Notion support, not version history.. brings it back. and most people don't even know that until they're the one asking.

we built restora.cc for this exact moment of procrastination. backing up is free, forever, no card needed. takes under a minute to connect and run your first one. you can literally do it right now while reading this instead of bookmarking it for later.

if your workspace has relational databases (tasks linked to projects, rollups, that kind of thing), regular exports won't actually protect you either.. they can't put the relations back together if you ever need to restore. that part's what restora handles differently.

but honestly, even if you never use restora.. back up your Notion somehow, today, before you're the next post in this sub.

restora.cc if you want the free option. happy to answer anything.

As an individual, I am looking for a free system that allows me to create a few cards with predefined sections, using the Kanban method, and which offers two-way synchronisation with a calendar (iCloud, Google, etc.). Thank you for your help

What's your biggest pain point with Notion forms? Building something to fix it—curious what's actually broken for you guys 🤔

Hello,

I have Apple Intelligence connected with ChatGPT Pro.

I was wondering what everyone in this community has been doing with Notion and Apple Intelligence for their daily workflows.

Use case: Is there a way for Apple Intelligence to use ChatGPT that is linked to my Notion to answer questions from the Notion database?
It would be great if I could make changes in Notion using Siri as well.

I as a person have very scattered thoughts and my best ones come when I am out and about so I have a setup where i can basically note down everything on my phone in telegram and it appears on my notion boards. Super cool but I dont know if other people find this useful?

In chapter 8 of his book "How to Read a Book", Mortimer Adler explains how discovering the relation between the author’s vocabulary and terminology is one way to increase your understanding of a book. To achieve this, he suggests locating the keywords and important terms within the book and noting them down into a two-column list, where one column contains the important words, and the other contains their important meanings (terms). He also explains that every word can have many important terms, and every term can have many keywords.

In Notion, I have a book notes database for taking notes on each book I read. Within the book notes page template, I added a simple two-column table with a header row for the Vocabulary and Terminology section:

https://preview.redd.it/93mayvu8pdbh1.png?width=787&format=png&auto=webp&s=17b7e20ebbeee9e0cc604a3251bfc33ca87ea46a

It's simple and easy to fill out while reading. But since a single word can be found in many books, and since the fun thing about Notion is to connect everything that’s related, I thought it would be better to turn this simple table into a Vocabulary and Terminology database with all the words and terms I capture from all the books I read. And do so in such a way that, within the book notes page, I can only view the keywords and important terms related to the particular book I'm reading.

So I created a single database for words and terms with the following properties:

• Type (select) options: Word or Term
• Words (relation: this database. no limit. related property enabled: Terms)
  • displays words related to a term
• Terms (relation: this database. no limit. related property enabled: Words)
  • displays terms related to a word
• Book notes (words) (relation: book notes database. two-way. no limit.)
  • displays the book where a word is found
• Book notes (terms) (relation: book notes database. two-way. no limit.)
  • displays the book where a term is found

In the book notes template, I created a database view with this filter:

• Where book notes (words) → contains → book notes template

And I set the visible properties:

• Title (name of page)
• Terms (relation: this database)

That way, the database view in the book notes page displays only words that are related to the book and their related terms. The only problem is that the terms relation property displays all the terms related to the particular word, including terms unrelated to the particular book on the book notes page.

I tried a different approach, where I created separate databases, one for words and one for terms, related them to each other, and related each of them to the book notes database. I created a filtered database view in the book notes page to show only words that are related to the book and their related terms. Still, the terms relation property shows terms unrelated to the particular book on the book notes page.

My goal is to have a database view in each book note page that only shows the words and terms found within the particular book I'm taking notes on. Is there a way to filter the relation property to show only the terms related to the particular book I’m reading? If not, what should I do differently?

I hope this wasn't too confusing. I'm not much of a Notion expert. But if you are, how would you create this?

It's frustrating, and also I have to use the mci connections to do any work , at this point i doubt why i should pay notion,

I mean like what the hell, when i have to ask a simple question multiple times to the so called opus or gpt in notion , while the mci one ace in single go

I've rebuilt my Notion probably five times now. It always starts clean, then slowly turns into a mess I dread opening.

My real problem is knowing where "enough structure" turns into "overengineered." I end up with nested databases, linked views for everything, custom properties I never actually filter by. Eventually it just feels heavy and I stop using it.

Curious to hear from people who've stuck with Notion for years: do you keep it deliberately minimal, or did you just land on the right complexity for your workflow?

A few things I want to know:

• Do you organize by projects, life areas, or just whatever feels natural?
• Do you do regular cleanups, or set it up once and leave it alone?
• What actually killed your earlier attempts?

Not after template recs - I'm more interested in the thinking behind it than anyone's specific pages or databases.

Would love to hear from anyone who went through a few failed setups before finally landing on something that stuck

We're a team of two building an AI startup, so we're wearing pretty much every hat imaginable. One minute we're doing product engineering, the next growth, customer calls, infrastructure, marketing, fundraising... you get the idea.

Lately we've realised our biggest bottleneck isn't actually execution, it's organising the work.

We're trying to keep all of this connected:

• Long-term vision (12-24 months)
• Quarterly objectives
• Product roadmap
• Active projects
• Kanban boards
• Documentation/wiki
• Meeting notes
• Short-term tasks
• Ideas/backlog

The problem is that they all influence each other, so when one changes, everything else should ideally stay in sync.

We've been trying to use Notion, but we've hit a few problems:

• It feels like you spend more time designing the workspace than actually planning.
• The flexibility becomes a downside because there are 100 different ways to structure everything.
• Relationships between databases become increasingly complicated.
• The UX starts feeling heavy once you have lots of projects and views.
• My co-founder and I also think differently. He prefers one way of visualising work, I prefer another, so we end up fighting the tool instead of planning.

The irony is we're spending hours discussing how to structure our planning system, instead of discussing what we should actually build next.

I'd love something where strategy naturally flows into execution.

Something like:

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...without having to manually maintain five different databases.

I'm not necessarily looking for another "task manager." I'm looking for something that helps us think and execute as a small startup.

A few questions:

• What are you using instead of Notion (if anything)?
• Has anyone found a setup where roadmaps, docs, projects and tasks actually feel connected?
• Are people combining multiple tools (e.g. Linear + something else), or have you found one tool that does most of it well?
• At what point did you decide Notion wasn't the right fit?

I'd especially love to hear from founders or teams of 2-10 people building software, because I suspect the needs are very different from larger companies.

Thanks!

Genuinely curious how people here maintain momentum with Notion after the initial setup excitement fades.

I always start strong. Build out a clean workspace, set up databases, link everything together. It feels great for about two weeks. Then life gets busy, I stop updating things, and eventually I open Notion to find a graveyard of halffinished pages and databases with stale data.

I know I'm not alone in this because I've seen similar things mentioned around here. The tool is powerful, but that same flexibility almost works against you when there's no enforced habit or accountability.

A few things I've tried: keeping it simpler with fewer databases, setting a weekly review reminder, cutting down the number of pages I actually maintain. Some of it helps, but I still drift away during heavier periods.

What has actually worked for you longterm? Did you strip things back to basics? Did you find a specific workflow or structure that made it feel more like a daily habit than a project you tend to?

Also curious whether people who switched to alternatives did so partly because of this same friction, or whether that's a Notionspecific problem.

Would love to hear honest experiences, not just the polished setups.

I've seen a lot of people to use Obsidian purely for just jotting down some notes here or there or have massive markdown compiled lists of information that are necessary to their work/everyday needs.

It seems like a massive hassle to setup though, which is unlike Notion's more modular take on productivity.

My main question is if you are using Obsidian as your own daily productivity tool and tracker for whatever, what are the pros and cons of using Obsidian rather than Notion? There are so many things to setup and learn how to do compared to Notion.

EDIT:
Also btw i am NOT hating on Obsidian, i also found Notion to be limited and hard to use at times, I am a completely new user to Obsidian so maybe i'm just slow at trying to figure out the markdown formatting lmao

EDIT 2:
Thank you to everyone who shed some thoughts and insights on Obsidian!