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For me, Notion replaced Evernote and I haven't looked back. Three features that have been particularly useful for personal productivity are

1) explicit support for Kanban board-ing tasks and similar to-do management

2) collapsible blocks

3) substantially smoother linking to, or embedding, notes within notes

Notion is just as sleek as Evernote for small independent notes, but these two features allow Notion to scale much better for projects that require an inter-related network of notes with substantial breadth and depth.

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I hard-swapped to Notion from Evernote about a ~month ago. The Markdown support is excellent, and I really like:

- The "database" type that give a table view over child pages has been great for organizing recipes. I can quickly filter by {protein, core ingredients, cooking time, etc}

- The same again for blog posts

- Free-form writing for talks & other notes

- Shared to-do lists, which I used for organizing an apartment move w/ my partner

- Search works great - across titles, labels and document content - with a quick Ctrl+P.

- The web-app is fantastic. The Electron app on Windows is solid, although sometimes takes a while to sync after being minimized for a while.

Being able to export everything into a reasonable format was a requirement for me, and they've had that for a while. I'm OK with having "some" element of lock-in for the convenience, provided I can get my data out in a structured format. There's _always_ a risk something might be deprecated or shutdown.

Evernote's killer feature for me is the automatic OCR on images, included in the search. Any way to rig that in Notion?

Not that I know of, and probably an area that Notion won't catch up in for a long time, if ever.

Is there any sort of IFTTT integration? There's gotta be some way to rig this up.

How good is the offline support?

Edit: After testing, seems not too bad. Reconciles non-conflicting edits just fine. But apparently, in the iOS app, search doesn't work in offline mode!

Edit 2: It seems like "attachments" (files like PDFs, and also images) are not stored offline, either. In the iOS app, clicking on a file or image brings up an S3 URL inside an embedded web browser.

Akshay from Notion here. Better offline support is included in the next release. Coming very soon!

Thanks. Will it include offline attachments?

How's the search ? evernote's search sucks. Is this significantly better?

I use search way less in Notion than Evernote due to the ability to hierarchically organize notes in a manner that better matches my mental map, to the point where it's hard for me to comment on the quality of search in Notion. I haven't had any complaints with it during the occasional times I have used search though.

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