

I would not recommend Notion for personal knowledge management (assuming you write a lot and want to benefit from your writing in some way vs just keeping a journal from time to time). The versatility of the blocks is mind blowing you can do a ton of different things with Notion thanks to those. Notion: I use it as a place to store information about my projects, my home, my family, my processes, to maintain databases of different kinds (eg personal CRM).I've spent a good chunk of 2021 researching the note-taking and Personal Knowledge Management space for my project.

But it's more about novelty than convenience, so I won't go into more depth about it.

If I'm away from my computer and I want to take notes, I'll pop Dynalist open on my smartphone (it's right there in the dock for easy access) and dash off a few of the key points in my head.īonus: I also occasionally take notes on a ReMarkable e-ink tablet late at night when I want to avoid screens. In short, if I'm already at my computer working and I want to take notes, I'll do so in Notion. (If you're familiar with Workflowy, Dynalist is basically the same thing but with a few more features.) So I supplement Notion with a second app: Dynalist. And sometimes I need to be able to just jot a thought down quickly while cooking food or walking outside. However, Notion is slow af and has a recent history of crashing entirely. I'm a huge fan of Notion, and I take most of my notes there so that my notes can "live" in the same app that I also do the rest of my work - including scheduling tasks, tracking progress, managing my CRM, and more.
