Will the tables in the Notion mobile app still be so painfully slow? Every time I scroll few rows down (in a table with few than 100 rows with dozen columns), the app hangs for several seconds while trying to fetch/render (who knows what it's actually doing) few additional rows. When I edit a row and return back to the table view, scroll position is lost and I have to suffer through the fetching once again.
They’re a very un-user focused company. They used the | cursor for any horizontally scrolling content for years, making a kanban board with non default states is nightmarishly complex, and there’s a billion odd UI slownesses and niggles.
I think their real innovation was the community and getting "cosy productivity" during Covid going. They are more of a social phenomenon than a technical one.
Notion is a great example of my hatred of the current "upgrade or die" delivery method of software. Notion 1.0, when it was mostly text with a unique way to view tabular data, was fast and enjoyable to use. Once it shifted to competing with Atlassian et al, it acquired all the bloat those products already have.
Sadly, I don’t think basing a business (with the tech investor desire for growth! growth! growth!) off one product, is best for an app that’s best when predictable.
Compared to a plain text editor, no. Compared to documentation + Access hybrids, I'd say it was good enough. The lack of true offline support has always been a big downside.
And by fast I mostly mean, when you did a / command, the menu came up quickly. Now it's stuffed with so many options as to be useless.
