The Magic All-In-One Productivity Platform Notion

A Comprehensive Deep Dive

Notion is a uniquely flexible and interconnected workspace that has become one of the fastest growing productivity apps in recent years. This comprehensive deep dive will explore what Notion is, how its modular building blocks work and connect, key features for personal and team use cases, and what sets Notion apart from other tools.

What is Notion and How Did It Start?

Launched in 2016, Notion bills itself as an all-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, databases and collaboration. It combines features from note-taking, project management, documentation, spreadsheets and more in one place.

Notion was founded by Ivan Zhao and Simon Last along with a small team based in San Francisco. Zhao previously created file-sharing service UpNote and worked at file syncing startup Dropbox.

Seeking to create the ultimate productivity software for himself, Zhao was frustrated by having to use separate apps for notes, documents, spreadsheets, project management and more. He aimed to consolidate thes…