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  • @ebu
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    6 months ago

    It doesn’t seem to be able to do anything that a GitLab instance can’t

    i didn’t believe you, but yeah, just learned GitLab has a wiki editor. so yeah, this covers like 95% of the things i once used Notion for. i guess if i want to be pedantic, Notion had database relations between tables that, as the name implies, allowed it to act a bit like an relational database. (e.g. allowing columns of tables to be limited to the values of rows of other tables). admittedly a little cool but in my experience was not much more useful than a simple table

    • @V0ldek
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      76 months ago

      just learned GitLab has a wiki editor.

      And it’s had it at least since 2017, which is before anyone has even heard of Notion.

      Selling shit you can have for free, the closed-source business story.

      • David GerardOPMA
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        6 months ago

        what notion is selling is hosting

      • @ebu
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        this is funny to me because it took Notion until late 2021 to introduce simple, non-database tables (since the database tables were often large, unwieldy, and introduced way too much overhead to just write a simple rows-and-columns spreadsheet, something that’s been a thing in GitHub Flavored Markdown since at least 2009