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What Is Notion and How Can You Use It?
Everything you need to know about The Internet’s favorite customizable workspace.
Notion is an app that is difficult to pin down because everyone uses it a little differently. It’s designed to be a chameleon, adapting itself to fit what the user needs. Some people use it for taking notes and studying. Others use it for business management and project organization. Still others use it to plan their content schedules. Some just use it as a calming dashboard of uplifting reminders.
But what actually is it?
Notion describes itself as a customizable workspace. “We’re more than a doc or a table,” they claim on the website. It’s an app available on web and every major platform for desktop and mobile. It’s free for most personal use cases, and has a subscription model for teams.
Honestly, after using it for a little over a year, I think “customizable workspace” is a great descriptor. It covers exactly what Notion is. But, to someone new to the app it is still a little bit vague. What does that mean?
For me, Notion is a tool to organize and connect information of all kinds. How you organize the information is up to you, and there are a lot of possibilities.
You can use it to collect text: ideas, plans, quotes, interesting facts, study points, snippets of…
