Why I Recommend Tana vs Notion (Personal Productivity)

[@BrianWisti]

Pausing to express empathy for the hesitant "I don't really organize things" which I know from first-hand experience sounds contradictory but is so true for ADHD brain. I'd organize everything in a way that made sense last week, but this week my brain's in a different space and that organization makes no sense to me. Nowadays I focus on s structure and discoverability that will survive whatever high-level organization approach I may suddenly obsess over.

[@CombiningMindsPKM]

Apologies for the poor placement of the video tiles - unfortunately I couldn't edit that away 😑

[@FernandoGutierrez1]

I so much empathize with your frustration when someone doesn't want to embark on crazy setups to use the perfect apps 😂

[@Sub0x-x40]

notion isnt difficult really but you just need to define a role for it and not try to make it work for everything. if you try to make it work for everything like task management and a second brain and a life os thats when it gets confusing and messy

[@CombiningMindsPKM]

Retrieval is not great in Notion IMO

[@BrianWisti]

If Tana doesn't click for someone, maybe because the outline structure doesn't call out to them, maybe try Capacities? The easiest summary for someone familiar with the domain is a simplified Tana that looks like Notion. The core unit is a page, but it lets you define your own object types and convert between them. After some time getting carried away with defining object types, I *mainly* use it as a bookmarking tool, because it saves web links as a built-in type that you can then arrange to your liking. Another nice hook is that the journal page includes a gallery of objects created on that day. Mobile client is handy too, at least on iOS.

[@alboz1327]

To be honest, the only real problem with Notion as a PKMS is... backlinks and effective resurfacing of information.

[@CombiningMindsPKM]

But it's quite a big problem :)