The knowledge worker’s productivity stack is increasingly fragmented. The familiar story of all data infrastructure companies, “Your data is everywhere, get easy access to it all in one place with our tool” holds additional weight for Notion. Notion is essentially a highly abstracted no-code tool. It has created a series of highly artistic,... See more

Notion is a meta-tool: a tool to build tools and it’s so malleable and makes inventing your own workflows so easy.

Notion is a philosophical descendent of HyperCard (turns out you can even buy a third-party HyperCard-themed Notion template) that offers extremely adaptable information structures built from an alphabet of ‘content blocks’. It’s also worth $10 billion and has 30 million users. I used it to create the first bidirectionally linked note-taking system... See more

Notion is the opposite and that flexibility makes it incredibly useful in some situations, but sadly also distracting and mediocre for most use cases.

Tools like Notion let you do pretty much anything but will require watching 17 YouTube tutorials, and paying $699 for a course to actually figure out how to do any of it.

Sublime is for people who value simplicity and a beautiful user experience above all else.