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It is great how author is making the most of Notion. I have tried various such systems in vain to keep up with ever increasing efforts required to organize them neatly. I stick to simple .txt/.md files fired up by two keystrokes (mapped "<leader>n" for new text file created in a specific folder) all of which are saved in a Dropbox folder which can be accessed from any of my devices.

Wish I could be as proficient in using Notion, seems like a wonderful tool.

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As a vim user, you’d probably just find notion frustrating. As you point out, you can tailor vim to be streamlined to your workflow. Notion is in the opposite direction where everything is pretty slow going (and as I’m sure people will pile in here about how the performance sucks).

I'm a heavy vim user but I think Notion is better suited for organising ideas and general life admin. While I'm sure it's possible to set up vim to act similar (vimwiki looks interesting) it wouldn't enable easy and nice viewing, editing and syncing across mobile devices. It's very keyboard-centric on desktop but manages to translate the interface rather elegantly to touch devices.

I am doing the same. Dropbox plus a bunch of md files. Edit them in either Typora. Very productive.

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