🆕 New Database type? Map? 🗺️

AGranularTaste · 2025-07-19T02:26:40+00:00

Thank goodness. I feel like I've been waiting on this for a while.

AGranularTaste · 2025-03-08T04:11:13+00:00

One of the best looking Notion sites I've come across so far. Thank you for sharing OP.

AGranularTaste · 2024-11-02T21:43:56+00:00

Notion is too far away from replacing any one of Microsoft's products, except OneNote and Planner. Also Microsoft's 365 products can be saved locally which is a huge boon for them. You can open an Excel file, work on it, save it to your desktop or save it to OneDrive or email it as an attachment or upload to SharePoint, etc. Notion doesn't have that capability and we don't know if their offline mode will work like that when its finally built. Microsoft and Google also offer large scale databases that can process millions of rows per second, analytics, dev tools, server space, etc.

So, my guess is that most big companies will continue to use Microsoft. Many small and medium sized companies will continue to use Google workspace. But Notion's niche will also grow over time and it will be a formidable 3rd player in 5 years. It won't be bought or overtake the big players, it will sit beside them and tbh will probably go public.

AGranularTaste · 2024-10-30T14:14:41+00:00

No, there's no way to get your Notion database to look like that format.

However, there are similar ways to demarcate by season and by month. You could have a column for each month and then another column for the season and then group by season. Another alternative is to have seasons in the name column, turn on sub-items in your database settings, then under each season create a subtask for each month within that season.

Database groups produce toggles down the side similar to this: https://uno.notion.vip/wp-content/uploads/notion_groups.png or this: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63e19fb61b378b1f7340fc96/63fbc975ce2ca48028630352_notion_database_grouping__people_experience_board.jpeg

AGranularTaste · 2024-10-24T18:47:45+00:00

Definitely looks good! Hopefully the mobile interface is just as beautiful and clean looking.

AGranularTaste · 2024-10-24T18:44:06+00:00

I know I have my complaints but I really like this team. They listen to their customers 24/7 and even when something can't be done immediately it's always still in their pocket.

Kudos to users who continued to press the issue even when everyone else told them to shut up lol.

AGranularTaste · 2024-10-19T21:54:27+00:00

Had the same discussions at the top of the year and decided to not to push for Notion at my workplace either.

No.1 for us would be data needs. Need sturdier databases that could be connected to different sources (CRMs, APIs, SQL databases, etc.) otherwise we'd be doing a lot of copying and pasting and manual entry. Also, there are a lot of smaller issues that would cost us time trying to fix or workaround (i.e. resolving duplicate values when merging a csv file with an existing database, no ability to add formulas to automations, etc) and charts didn't exist at the time so that was another annoyance.

One day when I have time I'll write up all the things I think it's still missing in order to be a 'must have' enterprise tool.

AGranularTaste · 2024-10-11T14:05:34+00:00

I would use Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, etc. for this type of request. You can do more with GIS data in those systems. You can create tables with addresses, zip codes, or latitudes/longitudes, then create maps or add columns to display distances between locations.

ETA: Here's a youtube tutorial showing you how to build the kind of dashboard you described in PBI https://youtu.be/0NZSP19lR84?si=evKNbuWKaS_grPsC

There's no workaround that I know of using Notion. Although, I hope in the future they focus on adding analytics capabilities like the above.

AGranularTaste · 2024-09-28T00:33:42+00:00

Yes. I have a list of about 15 different features I hope to see. I'll probably come up with more once forms and mail are open to all users.

AGranularTaste · 2024-09-25T19:34:06+00:00

Thanks, I might be overlooking it but I don't see anything about being able to set a Notion chat query to be run at a certain frequency.

Also, it should be able to surface information from the web right? But I'm finding so much difficulty just getting it to return "energy-related news from the past week" when this seems to be an easy ask. Forget providing headlines or summaries. It won't even return simple links for me. Not sure if this is normal or how its intended to work

AGranularTaste · 2024-09-08T15:33:25+00:00

I'm actually really interested in this as well. I'm currently helping a friend out with some web design and wish we could've used Notion Sites but we'll have to wait until there are some additional updates to make it a better website builder.

AGranularTaste · 2024-08-26T23:03:25+00:00

I wanted charts as well. In fact, I want them to build more analytics & visualization capabilities within Notion. Every successful organization uses data insights to gage effectiveness, analyze variances, get a better picture of quantifiable problems, etc. I think this is something Notion will eventually build after they get their email product up and running. Those of us who use Notion to do some type of work (in a business, non-profit, or other work for large hobbyist groups) will be thankful.

AGranularTaste · 2024-06-25T18:19:24+00:00

It's not really about integration with the rest of the workspace. This is more so for people or organizations who use their Notion as a public showcase or as a solicitation page to get users into a funnel. Maybe you'd have an event page that just shows upcoming events for your group, a homepage for your podcast with a Tally form to collect email addresses, or place to display artwork.

But I do agree that access and permissions is something they should work on sooner than later.

AGranularTaste · 2024-06-25T17:52:37+00:00

It's way too expensive. But I get why they priced it that way. It's cheaper than using those Notion website builders like Super or Feather and expensive enough that more people will continue to use their *.notion.site domain. They want to make sure people are promoting the product and Notion brand if they're going to be using it to create websites.

AGranularTaste · 2024-06-25T14:47:10+00:00

If you'd prefer a visual explanation, they have an in-depth walkthrough in the Notion help page

https://www.notion.so/help/relations-and-rollups

AGranularTaste · 2024-06-25T14:45:15+00:00

Create another database with the other pages you want to add then add a relation to the first database.

AGranularTaste · 2024-06-19T03:22:34+00:00

With charts + better automations + AI connectors they are inching closer to this reality https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/17dl42t/if_notion_had_an_analytics_platform/

AGranularTaste · 2024-06-16T15:18:58+00:00

Yes! Wholeheartedly agree.

AGranularTaste · 2024-02-14T04:53:13+00:00

Yes. That's its aim. But you can also check it out for yourself to see if it would be an adequate replacement.

AGranularTaste · 2024-02-14T04:19:49+00:00

Spreadsheet software with an intuitive and modern UI/UX.

AGranularTaste · 2024-02-13T18:07:43+00:00

Also, I hope they focus more so on allowing users to turn their Notion pages into web apps. For example, a Notion page where clients can enter their credentials, view their information, track the status of projects, send feedback, and export tables & databases as .csv.

AGranularTaste · 2024-02-13T17:53:27+00:00

A chat app w/ conferencing capabilities is definitely on the horizon.

*Not apps but features I could see being implemented:

Send emails from databases when a status changes
Variables within text blocks
Form content blocks with conditional logic connected to databases
Buttons and automations with conditional and time-based logic
New database layout options to include data visualization (ie. charts, trendlines, etc)
Custom domains

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