Notion

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “A CRM is only useful if it's easy enough to actually keep updated. I've been building a Notion CRM with a pretty simple pipeline + follow-up workflow for that reason.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-15

• “creating something in Airtable/Notion seemed easy, but then came permissions, automations, integrations, data cleanup, reporting, maintenance, etc.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-11

• “not perfect but works. notion is not a full crm but when you just need to track contacts and follow ups without the deal pipeline stuff, it does the job”

  LUKEWARM · features · Reddit · 2026-08-04

• “When collaborating on Notion, we had to pop into Google docs for comments, suggestions and history.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-26

• “I would try all different kinds of tools: notion boards, to-do apps, goal trackers, but they all had the same result. Planning instead of shipping.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-21

• “I saw like 20 thing setting there on Notion, and I'm only touching 3 of them”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-13

• “Notion ended up being a royal pain: it is built for humans not agents. It is block based and when multiple agents use it there is a lot of corruption in the process.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “started with Notion, but was frustrated with speed and then privacy issues”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “After the Notion node, the following nodes can no longer access the original data (for example, the game title). It seems like the Notion node output replaces or overrides the original item data.”

  NEGATIVE · integration · n8n_community · 2026-04-11

• “the commenting and discussion on a file has so much more friction that Google Docs or Notion”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-27

• “I can't reliably run Notion's transcription AI on Zoom calls”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-13

• “moved my personal task tracking from Trello to Notion to Sheets”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-12

• “I was losing my best ideas. Notes scattered across Notion, Google Docs, Apple Notes, Discord messages, random text files and customization loopholes. By the time I needed them, they were gone—buried in forgotten folders or replaced by newer notes.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-07

• “Notion is good because of how they support a calendar view where you can put documents in a day's cell, and then see a list view that's just a stack of those notes”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-30

• “it's returning exactly 100 items - which is Notion's default pagination limit. It's completely ignoring my limit setting”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · n8n_community · 2026-01-25

• “Notion (when I stopped using it 3 years ago) was slow as molasses. Slow to load, slow to update.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-21

• “the Notion node throws the error Could not extract page ID from URL, even though I am passing a clean UUID”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · n8n_community · 2026-01-12

• “The Notion Trigger (configured to poll "Every Minute") successfully catches the first event, but fails to detect any subsequent events.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · n8n_community · 2026-01-11

• “their input/response was next-to-garbage, with a big "we didn't build it for/like this mate" attitude. E.g. complete lack of "canned reports showing inactive users", "canned reports showing failed login attempts", and so on. One will have to drill though the audit logs, extract the lot, and go excel magic. Other 'within-Notion' solutions are (politely) 'inaccurate'. Overall it is a GRC/Privacy nightmare and I am happy to not be a user of this any more :)”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-09

• “Notion's built-in PDF exporter is quite disappointing to say the least”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-11

• “Notion changed their API validation - you can't pass Notion-hosted URLs as external files anymore”

  NEGATIVE · features · n8n_community · 2025-12-11

• “I built a workflow that replicates a Notion database from one place to another, including passing files that were uploaded in a "File & media" property”

  MIXED · features · n8n_community · 2025-12-11

• “Notion which has so many ways to store information that I'm always misplacing knowledge”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-06

• “notion and google ai studio are lagging on firefox and not on chrome”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-11-25

• “I've tried doing this about 3 times with importing cURL and notion APIs etc but it's still not working”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · n8n_community · 2025-11-23