Comment Notion a construit l'espace de travail tout-en-un de vos rêves
Produits iconiques épisode 013
If “product crushes” were a thing like celebrity crushes, mine would be Notion.
It’s one of the best products in the SaaS world right now – and there’s a chance you’ve never even heard of it. 🤷♀️
En tout cas, elle a été surnommée l'appli à suivre en 2018, à juste titre.
The company isn’t even a few years old and has already started to reshape how we work, collaborate and store information.
Even The Wall Street Journal referred to Notion as, “the only app you need for work-life productivity.”
And, well, I couldn’t agree more. 😍
When I discovered Notion completely by accident on (in?) the App Store about a year or so ago, I was blown away. I hadn’t been this excited for a product since my first iPhone.
Now, I’m thrilled to bring you a Notion-filled episode of Iconic Products! 🎉
Something to note: no, I’m not getting paid to write about Notion and I have zero affiliation with them whatsoever. I just genuinely love this product so much – and I think you will, too.
Alright, let’s get to it. 👊
Ralentis, Speed Racer. Mais qu'est-ce que c'est que Notion ?
Alright, let’s back up for a sec. Notion is an all-in-one workspace that is designed to, well, store just about anything you can think of. 🤯
Create wikis, to-do lists, reading lists, project plans, budgets, photo galleries, blogs – yes, really anything.
Plus, it’s available on desktop, iOS and, most recently, Android.
Think about it this way: your digital life is probably strewn about in your Google Drive, Evernote account, email inbox, Trello boards…you get the idea.
Well, in the form of pages and links, you can take all of that information and put it into one cohesive, pretty and fun database. 🗃
Some people might like to create editorial calendars and blog posts in Notion, others might prefer to just store banana bread recipes and YouTube videos they want to watch later. Basically, you can make your Notion workspace as complicated or as simple as you’d like.
You can include your personal content as well as professional content in the same space, but still keep them separated – such as the screenshot below.
As you can see, the product is clean, crisp and easy to navigate – but still has everything you could possibly need in your digital life.
Each of those lines of text open up to pages that contain all of the information you want – whether it’s a spreadsheet, calendar, blog post or even a kanban board.
Incroyable, non ?
Maybe you’re starting to see why I nerd out so hard over this product – it’s so simple and so brilliant at the same time. 🤓
But let’s go a bit deeper.
Sure, I’ve briefly explained what the product is at its surface, but let’s dig into what you can do with it.
Simple, beau, puissant
As Notion puts it, “Solve your problems your way, bounded only by your imagination.”
And it’s true: there are plenty of amazing examples of people using Notion in incredible ways.
Similaire à Airtable Universe, bien que beaucoup plus léger, est Notion Pages.
Here, you can submit examples of your own Notion pages and get inspiration from others. 🤘
D'un échantillon de programme scolaire à une bibliothèque virtuelle, illustrée ci-dessous, il existe des façons incroyables d'utiliser ce produit.
Personnellement, j'utilise Notion comme une liste de choses à faire, un tableau d'idées, un espace pour planifier des voyages et un moyen d'organiser les liens que je veux lire ou regarder plus tard.
That’s what makes this product so iconic: much like Airtable and Trello, there’s no right or wrong way to use it. 🙌
Fondamentalement, Notion s'articule autour de trois fonctions essentielles :
- Wikis : Semblable à un site web, où vous pouvez créer, modifier et concevoir votre propre mise en page.
- Documents : Ouvrez vos documents et travaillez hors ligne.
- Tâches : Créez des tâches sur de nouveaux tableaux ou créez votre propre liste de tâches.
By separating the core features in an easy and flexible way, it means that users can still use documents for tasks, for example, or add documents to tasks. It’s all completely modular and customizable. 🛠
Want to create a task and link it back to a blog post you’re writing within Notion (or even elsewhere)? You can do that.
Want to build a product roadmap and link it back to a kanban board? Spoiler alert: you can do that, too. 😉
Remplacer les outils, simplifier les processus
Pour résumer, je vous propose une citation tirée de l'article du WSJ susmentionné qui illustre parfaitement ce que je veux dire :
“Notion fuses the best of [Evernote, Google Docs, Keep, Trello, Asana]—and others—into a rare renaissance app, proficient in countless methods of creation and organization. I can’t put a price on the peace of mind that comes from an unfragmented life. Wait, yes I can: It’s eight bucks a month.”
(Je dois noter ici qu'il existe en fait une version gratuite de Notion, mais que la version payante coûte entre $4 et $16 par mois en fonction de votre plan, d'où la mention du coût de $8).
Yep – Notion replaces, and sometimes even surpasses, many of the products you’re probably using on a regular basis (thankfully, it doesn’t replace your favorite CRM!). 😳
Comme nous l'avons vu dans la dernière section, Notion peut faire à peu près tout ce que vous voulez.
Il est donc logique que ce produit puisse être utilisé de manière à remplir des fonctions similaires à celles de Trello, Google Docs et autres.
And unsurprisingly, this is exactly what Notion is aiming for. 🚀
As they explain on their website, “Google Docs made typewriters multiplayer. Dropbox brought file cabinets to the cloud. But conceptually, they evolved little beyond their Industrial Revolution ancestors. We duct-tape everything together with emails, copy/paste and countless open tabs.”
So that’s where they stepped in and created a space that combines all of these elements into one product.
Vous pouvez même l'utiliser comme un wiki à partager avec d'autres personnes en tant que site web de portfolio.
By removing the need for toggling from tool to tool, Notion has created a workflow that is seamless and, most importantly, in one place. 👍
Mais qu'en est-il si vous souhaitez utiliser Notion en équipe ?
Une collaboration de haut niveau
Notion allows you to collaborate across workspaces – which means you can keep your own workspace private if you’d like, and then invite users to work-related spaces. 👫
Cela crée encore plus de niveaux de possibilités impressionnantes.
Si vous souhaitez collaborer avec des collègues sur un projet, vous pouvez le faire en créant des feuilles de route, des tableaux kanban de produits à livrer, des listes de ressources et même en téléchargeant des prototypes ou des ébauches qui nécessitent un retour d'information.
From there, you can receive comments inline from collaborators and make edits accordingly. ✍
Plus besoin de partager des liens Google Doc dans les deux sens, plus besoin de séparer le tableau Trello de votre espace de travail.
And that’s certainly a breath of fresh air. 💆♀️
While there are some people out there who aren’t fully convinced that Notion is there…yet, it’s just a matter of trying it out for yourself and seeing how it fits into your workflow.
Il existe de nombreuses ressources pour vous aider à démarrer, de celle-ci à celle-ci, plus quelques idées uniques pour d'autres choses que vous pouvez construire dans Notion.
It’s really, really exciting to see where Notion is headed next. 💪
And as they continue to grow and find new ways to completely transform the way we work, I know I’ll be there cheering them on. 😄
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