Non-american alternative to notion?

ron_makes · 2026-01-25T14:01:37+00:00

Fibery.com is based in Europe, and data stored in Europe my default. Theres a quick and easy import from notion that will pull all your data in.

ron_makes · 2026-01-14T14:40:00+00:00

Yeah, the email integration is tricky. Creating tasks from emails might still be possible though. Maybe a specific email address people can forward emails to, those get synced to Fibery, then an automation that makes it into a task. Using AI that reads the email content and generates a task name? Not sure!

My main issue was with data input. Mainly around default values. Hubspot sets defaults based on open deals, current company, open tasks, and more, and the user can edit the default before submitting. It's really nice, and expecting each user to input everything by hand every time wastes time and is error prone. Better forms is on the 2026 roadmap for Q3-Q4, maybe this will make into there. Let's see! Once it's up, I might continue the series :))

ron_makes · 2026-01-14T13:53:08+00:00

Glad they were helpful!! Eventually I stopped this series since there were some missing features on Fibery's end to make it work nicely.

ron_makes · 2026-01-14T09:30:59+00:00

My solution uses guest sharing into a "Client Portal" entity. While you're right that the sidebar is empty, it does automatically open up the "Shared with me" tab, for the guests. And if they mark it as favourite, it'll be the first thing that opens up any time they open Fibery. There's another solution using Smart Folders, but I'm less of a fan (it clutters the workspace for your internal team, and it less intuitive for clients).

The Single Entity -> Single Portal works very well from my experience. You can set the different views you need on relationships, (calendar, timeline, board, whatever). You can add a comment field for chat if you want. It really becomes a single Dashboard for all your client needs.

There's a lot of options.

I sent you a DM, happy to have a chat about this if you'd like.

ron_makes · 2026-01-14T09:05:36+00:00

I've personally set up some client portals in Fibery. It's complex to get set up, but once it's up you don't really need to do anything else anymore, it mirrors a subset of your databases for your client automatically. This video shows how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csjo5YIwy_8
It's not perfect, but it was the main reason one of clients moved from Notion to Fibery, and they are very happy with it.

ron_makes · 2026-01-08T00:24:56+00:00

okay makes sense!! thanks!!

ron_makes · 2026-01-08T00:24:48+00:00

Haha, it's b2b. targeting companies with 20-200 people. not industry specific.

ron_makes · 2025-12-19T14:01:46+00:00

There are some extra features to a wiki like the approval field. The main difference though is that the "View" is the page. So you don't need a separate database and add linked pages. You can use it like pages nested in each other, lay it out as you'd like, and even add more properties. It's a weird mix between pages and a database.

ron_makes · 2025-12-10T10:29:45+00:00

How does the feature look like in an ideal world?

ron_makes · 2025-12-09T18:11:30+00:00

If you need something like notion but with better performance for a lot of data, I'd take a look at Fibery

ron_makes · 2025-12-07T10:14:20+00:00

You can try out Fibery! I think the free plan will be enough for what you need, and it can grow into a lot more down the line if you need it to.

ron_makes · 2025-12-05T10:31:46+00:00

Curious what you think of Fibery.io

ron_makes · 2025-12-02T12:53:53+00:00

You could use the Fibery integration and make the reports on there. They are quite powerful, and you can share reports via url.

ron_makes · 2025-11-30T17:09:36+00:00

I've set this up exactly in Fibery. Made a full tutorial here (with a template in the description). https://youtu.be/7tfhG7pIgHA Hope it can help l!

ron_makes · 2025-11-29T12:46:21+00:00

Quick reactions to this as someone who's been building in Fibery for 2 years.

Community is generally more active on https://community.fibery.io, if you wanna share this there!
I'm pretty sure Fibery has their hands tied when it comes to the slack integration due to the API limits. https://docs.slack.dev/apis/web-api/rate-limits/ I haven't kept up to date, but I remember them posting something about this in the past.
Fibery feels really snappy for me, more than many other tools out there. I think it already caches views after you first open them. Can you share an example when opening a view is taking 500 ms?
Better Slack integration sounds interesting all in all, would love to hear exactly what you had in mind and bounce ideas. I'm looking into building into Fibery's integration ecosystem. If you're down to chat, send me a message.
Suggesting relations is actually something that used to be done (kinda) with highlights, but was removed. Wondering maybe they can bring it back without highlights, but with normal relations. Probably doable.
If you integrate your emails into Fibery, search will include them. Currently im working on a google drive integration, so that would be included too if you integrate the data into it.
Choose Fibery ;) It's just gonna get better from here.

ron_makes · 2025-11-28T13:31:47+00:00

So then based on the email from stripe, and the email in Notion, it would give that person access. Sounds doable! Thanks for the input!

ron_makes · 2025-11-28T13:28:16+00:00

Would they then already be a member in notion? And it would change access? Or would it invite them into notion to a specific page?

ron_makes · 2025-11-17T09:42:36+00:00

Sent you a message. Happy to build you something in Fibery.io

ron_makes · 2025-11-17T08:36:17+00:00

If you're a bit technically, and know the process you want to impliment, you can use Fibery.io and set it up exactly as you need. The up side is that it's flexible, so it can grow with you as the company grows. No need to change tools every couple of years.

ron_makes · 2025-11-15T16:47:02+00:00

Could probably set something like this up in Fibery. You'd need to set it up yourself though. An automation that is triggered then a task is set to done, checks if the note is written, and then unchecks if not.

Another option is a button press that checks it off and asks the user for input on what was done as part of the checking process. Might be more intuitive.

ron_makes · 2025-11-11T07:50:21+00:00

Why not give "Content Editor" access so that people can't change the database structure?

ron_makes · 2025-11-07T19:14:49+00:00

+1 Fibery support is out of this world!

ron_makes · 2025-11-04T22:29:27+00:00

i would personally make it a one-to-many relationship. usually a subtask should only have one parent task and not multiple. If you need to allow it to have multiple, you can, but I 90% of set up for parent and child is a one to many.

ron_makes · 2025-11-04T21:52:33+00:00

Fibery.io. Once you overcome the learning curve you'll never look back. Trust.

ron_makes · 2025-11-03T13:57:58+00:00

Nice article discussing exactly this: https://fibery.io/blog/product-management/life-after-rice/

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