I expected "free" to mean free software. It means freemium here.
EDIT: NOTE: I mean nothing negative by freemium: I just mean there are both free and paid tiers. Not sure what the definition of freemium is.
EDIT: NOTE: I mean nothing negative by freemium: I just mean there are both free and paid tiers. Not sure what the definition of freemium is.
I thought "freemium" nowadays referred more to practices like "we'll actively make your experience worse and annoy you unless you pay", but now I think I mistook that for "free-to-play" in the game industry. Alright then! It's freemium.
In the future, Notion and Brick will drift away significantly. Notion is unlikely to have E2E encrypted pages. Notion is unlikely to have built-in support for newsletters, especially paid newsletters a la Substack. Notion is unlikely to get built-in analytics. Etc.
Notion is powerful enough that you can use it as a pretty good writing platform, but swimming against the flow is always harder. Notion's flow, the way it seems to me, is management and knowledge bases. Ie. it's primarily for co-workers, and it is good for writers insofar as co-workers have to be writers sometimes.