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Flexible, Customizable, and Researcher-Friendly: A Powerful e-Lab Notebook with Room to Grow
What do you like best about the product?
Notion has become the central hub for managing my research workflow. As an electronic lab notebook (e-LN), it’s highly adaptable—I use linked databases to track experiments, literature reviews, project milestones, and protocols, all in one place. The ability to create custom views (calendar, timeline, Kanban) and tag entries by type or status allows me to visualize my work dynamically. It’s especially powerful when combined with versioned file storage, cross-platform access, and the integration of structured templates. Unlike rigid ELN platforms, Notion gives me the flexibility to build a system that aligns exactly with how I think and work.
What do you dislike about the product?
Notion’s performance degrades when handling very large pages or embedded content-heavy databases. There’s also limited offline functionality, which can be disruptive in environments with unstable internet. While Notion excels at flexibility, it lacks native scientific features like experiment timers, chemical structure rendering, or protocol version control, which more specialized ELN platforms offer. Export options are also limited when it comes to generating clean, formatted lab reports or PDFs for compliance or archiving.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion solves the fragmentation problem in academic and lab work. Before, I relied on separate tools for note-taking, task tracking, protocol management, and project planning. Now, everything lives in one unified system. I’ve built a modular, searchable electronic lab notebook that allows me to track experiments by date, tag literature by topic, log progress across multiple projects, and centralize protocols—all cross-linked and version-controlled. This has improved my ability to plan experiments, retrieve information quickly, and maintain reproducibility and traceability in my research. It’s also significantly reduced administrative overhead and cognitive load.
Notion Review
What do you like best about the product?
It's simplicity and UX. It looks clean and I can share page I make with the world
What do you dislike about the product?
My tasks don't always load on by day mode which is very annoying when planning thr week.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows me to have all my companies information in one place that we can share. The AI allows for summaries of all our work for easily transferable knowledge
Easy to set up, easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of creating and formatting pages
What do you dislike about the product?
Organizing workspaces on a large scale can be difficult to navigate, but the AI is great to fin what you need without manually navigation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One-stop-shop intranet for our company
Exceptional resource for cross-team collaboration.
What do you like best about the product?
As a sales leader, it is incredibly useful for sharing best practises with my team, but also collaborating with other departments.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can at times be a bit of a maze to find things!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Speed of onboarding, ICP and sales frameworks.
My go-to Software EVERY time!
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ability to customize my workspaces (I call them Dashboards) for the way I think and work. It's easy to integrate other products I use into my dashboards so I can keep all of my "digital knowledge" in one location. I use Notion every day, and appreciate how easy it was to get started using it in the beginning. I've interacted with their customer support and they've been extremely responsive every time. I also appreciate how the company responds to feature requests and implements them quickly. The AI writing assistant, search, and other AI features have been great.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't see any downsides to using it, I would just like it if they would add handwriting/drawing with a stylus capabilities to the software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting better organized so I can be more productive in my consulting business. It also helps me organize my knowledge management across all of my digital devices.
Couldn't work without it
What do you like best about the product?
Notion is whatever you need it to be. That’s what makes it so powerful. It has allowed us to track projects of all shapes and sizes across multiple teams, bringing consistency and clarity to complex workflows. Whether we’re managing a campaign timeline, coordinating a cross-functional launch, or simply outlining weekly to-dos, Notion flexes to meet the moment.
One of the things I value most is how it serves as a central knowledge hub—a single source of truth where institutional memory lives. We’ve been able to document processes, share insights, and onboard new team members more efficiently because everything is connected, searchable, and visually clean.
Notion has helped us scale our work without scaling chaos. Its modular structure means we can start simple and grow intentionally, building systems that evolve with our team’s needs rather than locking us into a rigid platform.
From databases and dynamic dashboards to collaborative wikis and content calendars, Notion bridges the gap between structure and creativity. It’s not just a tool—it’s become part of how we work.
One of the things I value most is how it serves as a central knowledge hub—a single source of truth where institutional memory lives. We’ve been able to document processes, share insights, and onboard new team members more efficiently because everything is connected, searchable, and visually clean.
Notion has helped us scale our work without scaling chaos. Its modular structure means we can start simple and grow intentionally, building systems that evolve with our team’s needs rather than locking us into a rigid platform.
From databases and dynamic dashboards to collaborative wikis and content calendars, Notion bridges the gap between structure and creativity. It’s not just a tool—it’s become part of how we work.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I dislike about Notion is that not enough people at our company use it. It’s such a versatile and powerful tool, but its value really multiplies when teams adopt it together. When only a few people are using it, it can feel like you’re building in a silo instead of a shared workspace. I’d love to see broader adoption so that more of our knowledge, collaboration, and workflows can live in one centralized, flexible platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion solves the problem of fragmentation. In most organizations, knowledge lives everywhere—scattered across emails, Slack threads, shared drives, project management tools, and personal documents. That fragmentation slows teams down, leads to duplicated efforts, and makes it hard to align around priorities.
Notion brings everything into one central, customizable workspace—notes, tasks, databases, calendars, wikis, and more—so that information is easily accessible, connected, and always up to date. It’s helped us eliminate the confusion of “Where is that doc?” and replaced it with a culture of transparency and shared ownership.
For me, the biggest benefit is how it helps us work smarter and scale faster. It allows us to document processes, manage complex projects, and collaborate across teams—all in one place. It’s not just a tool for organization; it’s a framework for clarity and momentum.
Notion brings everything into one central, customizable workspace—notes, tasks, databases, calendars, wikis, and more—so that information is easily accessible, connected, and always up to date. It’s helped us eliminate the confusion of “Where is that doc?” and replaced it with a culture of transparency and shared ownership.
For me, the biggest benefit is how it helps us work smarter and scale faster. It allows us to document processes, manage complex projects, and collaborate across teams—all in one place. It’s not just a tool for organization; it’s a framework for clarity and momentum.
The only tool that finally organized my brain
What do you like best about the product?
Notion is the only tool that has actually earned its place as my second brain. I bought Thomas Frank’s Ultimate Brain template, and now everything—literally everything—has a home. Web clips. Projects. Notes. Half-formed ideas. Stuff I used to scatter across Google Drive, Apple Notes, and a dozen apps now lives in one powerful hub. It’s wildly flexible, but also structured enough to keep me focused. And with Notion AI, building complex databases is shockingly simple. I created a multi-layer referral partner tracking system using Notion AI and ChatGPT faster than any spreadsheet or PM tool I’ve ever used. You can build anything in here—from a basic to-do list to an entire operational ecosystem. It’s like LEGO for your business brain.
What do you dislike about the product?
As much as I want Notion to be the only tool I use, it doesn’t quite get there. It’s not intuitive for team collaboration the way ClickUp is. Yes, you can collaborate in Notion, but it’s not built for that out of the box: you have to engineer it. So I still lean on ClickUp for shared project workflows. Also, Notion’s databases, while powerful, aren’t as formula-friendly as Google Sheets. If you want to do calculations, conditional logic, or advanced filtering, it feels clunky or flat-out missing. I still end up exporting or duplicating systems into Sheets. If Notion ever integrates those spreadsheet-level capabilities natively, I’d ditch half my tech stack in a heartbeat.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion solved my organization problem, full stop. But even more than that, it’s helped me build systems that actually support the way my business runs. I don’t naturally think in databases, but my business demands I use them constantly.
Deep features, usable at a shallow depth
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy it is to just start typing
What do you dislike about the product?
The assertion that everything must be a database of some type feels like it gets in the way.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connects multiple sources of notes that had been previously siloed
Best for organize your knowledge
What do you like best about the product?
I use notion to store almost everything using database, including trading journal, working notes and book readings.
it's ease of use with both web and app. And it could be enriched with powerful api and webhooks. I can sync data with external tools with simple connections.
it's ease of use with both web and app. And it could be enriched with powerful api and webhooks. I can sync data with external tools with simple connections.
What do you dislike about the product?
The chart feature does not meet my expectation. it should be more customized.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
i used to log my trading journal. the notion ai could help me summarize the performance of my holding security and give me the right suggestion about the operations
Game-Changer for Productivity and Organization
What do you like best about the product?
Notion has completely transformed the way I plan, organize, and manage both my personal and professional life. The app is incredibly versatile — I use it for everything from taking notes and managing tasks to building databases, journaling, and even collaborating with others.
What do you dislike about the product?
Don't have hand writing input, it would be nice if you guys implement this
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Notion truly brings together everything I need into one place. It’s like having a notebook, task manager, calendar, and knowledge base all rolled into one.
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