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Notion
Company blog · notion.com/blogproductivityai
Notion is the company blog at notion.com, writing about productivity and ai. Since 2019, 64 different Hacker News readers have linked it 83 times, most often “Notion 3.0”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 34 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Notion's help pages and job posts. The blog posts cited cover its data model, how it sped up the app with local SQLite caching, and Postgres resharding.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 34 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Notion 3.04 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-09-18
- Welcoming Campsite's Founders to the Notion Team4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-12-20
- The Great Re-shard: adding Postgres capacity (again) with zero downtime (2023)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-02-24
- How we made Notion available offline3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-24
- How Notion handles concurrent editing with CRDTs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-18
- The data model behind notion3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-17
- /Dev/Notion3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-13
- Enterprise Search with Notion AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-14
- Notion Mail is out2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-01
- Notion is killing Notion Mail EOL sept 20262 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-25
What Hacker News says?
Notion has a very flexible data model. We use it mainly for documents, but it also can contain databases, which can be viewed as kanban boards, timelines, etc. https://www.notion.com/blog/data-model-behind-notion It's really nice to have one place to go for all kinds of content, but that content can link within itself, @mention other pieces of content, etc. It can (and does) turn into a huge mess if you let it, of c…
Comment linking /blog/data-model-behind-notion
on “Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline”Submitted Notion releases offline mode as a story · 242 points
HN discussionI use Notion databases for this. They're essentially spreadsheets with customizable table, list, kanban views, and each row gets its own wiki-style page in addition to the structured data. So it's nice for lists of books or movies or games, where you have some metadata but you also might want to take notes on it when you read/watch/play. It works pretty well for this purpose, but I also could probably make Obsidian…
Comment linking /help/intro-to-databases
on “I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps”Submitted Notion Mail is out as a story · 101 points
HN discussionNotion (Editor) | Full-Time | NYC or SF | 2x/week in office We're looking for a fullstack eng (if you lean FE/BE that's cool) who is interested in working on the product OR foundational layer of Notion's editor. You'll have a lot of opportunities to build expertise and ownership, and work on some of Notion's business critical projects (ask engineers working on Performance, Offline, CRDT, Editor quality, and AI editi…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted Notion 3.0 as a story · 60 points
HN discussionHey! 1. Notion records audio only during your use of the Meeting Notes feature. Here are the docs: https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes 2. Notion desktop app has notifications about meetings that ask you if you want to use Meeting Notes, it recognizes this by detecting that your microphone is on (i.e. it does not listen to audio coming from your microphone). This feature is a setting in preferences btw, unde…
Comment linking /help/ai-meeting-notes
on “Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network”Submitted The Great Re-shard: adding Postgres capacity (again) with zero downtime (2023) as a story · 30 points
HN discussionThe topic reminds me at least these two documents, which shows in more detail how simple but well-thought data model can create great results. https://www.notion.com/blog/data-model-behind-notion https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects Having worked with real business databases, I truly believe and feel that foundational information modeling (database schema, data types) makes or breaks the utility…
Comment linking /blog/data-model-behind-notion
on “Your data model is your destiny”Submitted Notion 3.0: Agents as a story · 14 points
HN discussionNotion | Programmer, Sales, Marketing, Support | SF | https://www.notion.com | Full-time Onsite == Intro ==================================== Hey there, Notion founder here. At Notion, our goal to create the general purpose work tool for a post-file, post-MS Office world. My cofounder and I often joke that this was like the "hot startup topic" of the 90s. Unfortunately, tools for knowledge workers haven't advanced m…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”Submitted How Notion handles concurrent editing with CRDTs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNotion | https://notion.so | Android Engineer | SF | hybrid (in office 2x a week) | Full time Level: Mid/Mid+ (4-6yrs experience) Salary: $130,000 - $250,000 + equity Hiring Process: Recruiter call -> Initial screen -> 1-2 coding/1 system design/1 career history -> post onsite with staff -> reference checks -> offer (Shared in October, the position is still open!) Notion’s looking for an android engineer to join our…
Comment linking /blog/notion-on-android-is-now-more-than-twice-as-fast-to-launch
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”Submitted Notion 3.0 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNotion | https://notion.com | Android Engineer | SF | hybrid (in office 2x a week) | Full time Level: All levels (at least 2yrs of experience shipping production Android apps) Salary: $130,000 - $250,000 + equity Hiring Process: Recruiter call -> Practical tech screen -> 1-2 practical coding/1 system design/1 career history -> post onsite -> reference checks -> offer Notion’s looking for more android engineers to jo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)”Submitted How Notion handles concurrent editing with CRDTs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionpgroll seems neat but I ended up writing my own tools for this one because I need to do somewhat unique shenanigans like testing different sharding and resource allocation schemes in Materialize.com (self hosted). I have 480 source input schemas (postgres input schemas described here if you're curious, the materialize stuff is brand new https://www.notion.com/blog/the-great-re-shard ) and manage a bunch of different…
Comment linking /blog/the-great-re-shard
on “What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like”Submitted A Notion Love Story: Connie and Kyle were two singles looking for love in SF as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://www.notion.com/help/intro-to-databases
Comment linking /help/intro-to-databases
on “Notion releases offline mode”Submitted Notion handles concurrent editing with CRDTs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm a little confused. They've supported offline for some time. Even published a very cool article last July about all the (considerable) challenges one runs into when going after making wasm-sqlite work: https://www.notion.com/blog/how-we-sped-up-notion-in-the-bro...
Comment linking /blog/how-we-sped-up-notion-in-the-browser-with-wasm-sqlite
on “Notion releases offline mode”Submitted /Dev/Notion as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNotion wrote about their experience before: https://www.notion.com/blog/sharding-postgres-at-notion https://www.notion.com/blog/the-great-re-shard
Comment linking /blog/the-great-re-shard
on “Making Postgres scale”Submitted How we made Notion available offline as a story · 3 points
HN discussionexcellent article. IMHO it tackles the gist of what personal knowledge management should be about. true learning/understanding (and intellectual depth for that matter) seems like something that (due to neurocognitive reasons) cannot possibly be achieved only through the process of reading, but is rather a function of the reader's quality of elaboration on what has been read. this inherently requires the reader's wil…
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on “Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought”Submitted Building and scaling Notion's data lake as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPeople complaining about the license are missing this - https://www.notion.com/blog/welcoming-campsites-founders-to-... Notion bought the company. They have no reason to want the product to actually be open source, because they'd just be helping a potential competitor.
Comment linking /blog/welcoming-campsites-founders-to-the-notion-team
on “Campsite switches to Creative Commons Non-Commercial license”Submitted Notion adds Webhooks support in automations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSeems like an aqcui-hire from Notion is the answer here: https://www.notion.com/blog/welcoming-campsites-founders-to-...
Comment linking /blog/welcoming-campsites-founders-to-the-notion-team
on “Campsite switches to Creative Commons Non-Commercial license”Submitted How Notion handles concurrent editing with CRDTs as a story · 2 points
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