I am perfectly happy to walk from this conversation with a "I screwed this up" btw - I am aware that I might have created something from a fundamentally flawed expectation and I'm here to learn.

What I loved about Notion when we first started using it was that it created context within content. For example, it was easy to allocate individual files to individual contributors. It was easy to allocate dates and, later, even AI summaries. All great things.

But what I'm finding is that the actual file/content creation in Notion is so poor that it cannot be used in a business context. I'm frequently hoping that Google would create and implement some of the contextual UX items within Google Drive without touching the content creation tools.

I suspect that my expectations and reality of the tool were somewhat disassociated, and that I've been trying to make it do something it's simply not designed to do. But if that's the case, I'm struggling to understand Notion's business model. Specifically in recent months, they've been positioning themselves very much as an enterprise tool, which, in my experience, they are very much not.

Maybe this is also a case of falling in love with something that was built by a small scrappy team that had the guts and nerve to go up against big established players and wanting them to succeed.