If this garbage was simply a feature you had to enable I would be quietly annoyed on principle but otherwise ignore it and just go about my business, but instead it shows up at THE TOP OF THE LIST EVERY TIME YOU TRY TO EMBED LITERALLY ANYTHING. This one incredibly stupid bit of trend-chasing is now the first thing you see no matter what you're trying to do. Fuck this, man!!! I'm sure they'll get rid of this all in like six months when free GPT queries are no longer being subsidized, but the fact that this is their attitude at all to trend-chasing makes me want out.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions for things that have Notion's collaboration features I would LOVE to hear them. I am staring at lists of features and feeling like I'm losing my mind. Unfortunately the thing that I primarily use it for is sharing documents with others (and having running comment threads on issues), as well as providing general knowledge bases for team members to reference. I've gotten Obsidian and Joplin as suggestions but their collaboration features seem kinda hacky and it's not really the markdown editing part that I care about.
I have spent the entire work day researching Notion alternatives! I know a bunch of people were looking at the replies to my posts for suggestions, so I'll summarize my findings thus far.
Here is my update on all this bullshit!
I contacted Notion support and they've been very slow but apparently they are willing to remove AI from your workspace if you message them and ask. I... don't really know if this addresses my real underlying problem, which is that they're focusing their efforts on this kind of trend-chasing bullshit instead of actually supporting a product that people would actually use? It still really makes me worry about what the state of things is gonna be like in a few years, and any project management software I use needs to last years—that's how long the projects last! Even if they do remove the garbage, I think it's still probably extremely worrying? I don't really know what to think here!
Meanwhile, we've been trying out ClickUp in day-to-day work and... it's... fine, I guess? A lot of the UI stuff is just slightly jankier and cluttered and it simultaneously has too much and not enough functionality, like it's very obvious that the document/sharing functionality is bolted on top of the task management system rather than the other way around. I do not entirely like it, whereas I was otherwise pretty happy with Notion. But it seems to be delivering on everything I wanted functionality-wise, more-or-less! I don't hate it, at least.
I think the only conclusion I'm really reaching here is that I do not enjoy this part of my job. Anyway, remember when I said at least Google Docs was free from this? Well, lmao, look at this garbage
(I suppose this needs a tone indicator. Intended to be a lighthearted jest.)
