Pazy is a database guru as part of his day job, so I just assumed he was naturally inclined to gravitate towards databases in his personal life too. I can already hear people turning off at the sound of databases. At first, I found this a bit confusing, as my Evernote ‘save it all’ approach didn’t quite fit neatly… but once I realised that Notion involved a fundamentally different approach to data organisation, it made much more sense. Rather than just acting as a huge repository with search capabilities, Notion encourages you to store information in a far more organised way, making heavy use of its own databases. While Evernote has been touted as the single place that you can quickly grab and throw all of your various ideas, links, clippings, and files that you come across on a daily basis – Notion takes that idea a step further.

After just a short time, I was convinced. However, the temptation was too much to resist, and I gave it a whirl. I was initially a bit wary of diving head-first into Notion, as I have both used and built up a significant amount of content in Evernote over the years. From what I could gather, it was a central place to store a whole manner of different kinds of notes. Knowing my penchant for a productivity tool, my good friend Pazy suggested I investigate one that I hadn’t heard of before: Notion.

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