Notion.io is my new favorite

Posted by Chris Thompson
Sep 4, 2019 at 07:01 PM

I thought that part of the review was fair actually. The lack of simple/basic tables in Notion is one of the points that gets brought up again and again on social media. Multi-column layouts with a small number of columns are easy (at least on the desktop Notion; they’re not shown as columns on mobile), and embedding a tabular database into a Notion page is easy. But if you just want a simple word processor-style table rather than an embedded tabular database, there’s no support for that. It’s powerful but overkill.

nathanb wrote:

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>My gosh, again with conflating a real honest inline database view when
>she apparently just wanted to create a simple 2d grid…which itself is
>one of Notion’s best features. So she ignores Notion’s awesome drag and
>drop content-into-rows/columns function which is showcased to anyone who
>first opens the software…and tries to replicate Evernote’s WORKAROUND
>to that by attempting ‘insert table’ and being annoyed that she’s
>presented with a default database instead of a grid. Wow, this is
>painful to read, yet like a car accident, I can’t look away….