

You may want to consider a more structured project management-focused software like Asana, Clickup, or (one that I’ve been playing with lately) Taskade. In short, don’t expect Notion to simplify and/or make your operations structured and ordered in the immediate. Your workspace will cyclically move from chaos to complicated, and-as your Notion skills improve-to ordered. You as a founder (and your employees) will need to be somewhat comfortable with a bit of wild, unbridled product development.

It can be chaotic, and you might want to allow it to be.

Notion’s open-endedness is both its blessing and (often) its curse. However, chaos is rife with opportunity-chaos is where innovation lies dormant. In structured, ordered systems, “next steps” are clear and things get done without much prodding, and that’s important. I’d actually argue that a better heading for Notion is closer to “Embrace the chaos ”! The first heading on Notion’s sales page is “Team up without the chaos”. We built the Notion Mastery program largely because we wanted to help folks that are committed to taking the latter path and embracing the chaos. You have to build and/or prototype these tools yourself, via a template or just rolling-up-your-sleeves and getting greasy. However, it doesn’t do projects and tasks out of the box, per se. You may have even heard how it “replaces” Google Drive, Project and Task management, and spreadsheets. To be sure, Notion is an incredible tool-one that can help organize and craft new operational workflows and document existing ones. These and others are what we’ve heard consistently from business owners and other c-suite roles as reasons why they’re asking us to “help make this decision !” You, organizing your business ops, presumably
