How Notion Becomes An External Brain Boosting Productivity and Collaboration

Your External Brain for Notes, Tasks, and Teams

Touted as an all-in-one workspace, Notion promises to revolutionize personal and collective productivity. But does this versatile platform deliver on its ambitious vision to become a searchable external brain?

This comprehensive guide examines how Notion streamlines workflows while enriching the experience along the way.

Clarifying Notion’s Core Capabilities

Before exploring Notion’s transformative potential, it helps to clarify capabilities versus common misconceptions.

What Notion IS:

• An integrated workspace consolidating notes, tasks, docs and data

• Infinitely flexible to model any workflow

• A collaboration platform with robust permissions and controls

• Cross-platform via web, mobile and desktop apps

What Notion is NOT:

• Merely a note-taking app like Evernote or OneNote

• As rigid as traditional project management platforms

• Limited to personal use

While reinventing personal knowledge management, Notion proves versatile enough to connect complete team workflows under one searchable, shareable and auto…