Switching to Notion after many years of using Onenote

Dec 16, 2020 Notion, Zettelkasten 1 min read

OneNote was my primary place for collecting every note for many years. I started to use it long ago, maybe 10 years ago in the times when Windows phones still exist. It suited my needs for many years, but while reading the article about “Zettelkasten” notes method (highly recommend to have a look!) I found that probably I need to review my tools and try something new allowing to build links between my notes.

Image from the Internet on search of Zettelkasten method

Image from the Internet on search of Zettelkasten method

So I gave a chance to Notion, especially after it removed a limit on amount of pages for free plan.

Aand… I’d say it works really well for me. It’s very flexible, supporting things from travel and week planning to keeping books/films to watch. Previously I just made unordered lists, now it’s structured tables with several attributes to filter.

For instance, I use the following template for my weekly plans and another custom template for travels planing (but apparently it’s not available publicly anymore)

Feel free to leave comments if you’re interested that I’d share some examples of my lists/tables/plan structures.

P.S. I didn’t get a cent from Notion for this post 😛

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