Notion - notes, docs, tasks 4+

It took me quite a while to get hang of this app — there’s so many templates and formatting options. But after watching a lot of notion tutorials online and asking my friends, I finally got my way through understanding this app and how to use it.

I am a senior high school student, and this app is honestly one of the best apps for general note-taking, retrieval practice (the toggles!) and keeping track of assessments and tasks. It’s great how you can embed documents and websites, images, databases (they’re amazing!), and have a variety of options for headings. You can also customise your page by adding covers and icons, and that’s why you see all those aesthetic notion pages ;D

Considering all the wide variety of functions and options and the fact that it’s FREE, this app has got to be one of the best apps out there.

I just have a few recommendations to help improve this app (I use notion on iOS btw, so not sure if these functions are already available through laptops)

- Allow to adjust the size of images manually
- Be able to add bullet points in table units
- A wider variety of fonts and colours for writing/highlighting
- Enable full text selection (to copy and paste)
- Be able to split screen 2 documents at once
- Be able set up my default mode for documents (minimal page comments, backlinks off) in settings
- A way to rid of frequent glitches…?

Eg. the menu for blocks is a little confusing to navigate, and the meaning and functions behind the property icons are a bit unclear.
Other than that, this app is absolutely jam-packed with features, which I love. However, this can also cause the experience to be a little finicky, and things are hard to find at times.
The offline feature is very useful, as well as the capability to seamlessly sync across an unlimited amount of devices. I’d like to give a huge thank you for these; it’s so frustrating when other apps require you to subscribe to their paid plan in order to access these features.
You can do so much stuff on this app with the database and formula features (although the databases are a little difficult to figure out how to use and how they work). It really satisfies (nearly) all of my needs.
But that brings me to my next point. I would get on my knees to beg for this, because this app is awesome and unique enough that I wouldn’t be able to find a replacement. But if the ability to password protect pages (and maybe databases) is added, I will cry out of sheer joy and promise to declare my undying love for this app and its contributors in an edit. And change my rating to five stars. PLEASE. IT’S THE ONLY THING I NEED