5/30/2023 0 Comments Notion notesYou can chose that path or not, but understand what this very important element of Apple's philosophy means because it affects so much of the past couple decades of our industry. It's about taking the extra time and care to do it native. "And while sacrifices were often made of money, time and frustration, users of Apple products often reaped the rewards." This is definitely not the Electron approach. Back of the fence is the fine touches on the unseen internals, but reflect a general care and pride in your craft that will probably pay off in the long run. It is a very distinct concept from focusing on user-visible details, which I think is what you're referencing here. It's why they invested so much in the OS X internals and stuck with a native focus that helped iOS be so fast and nimble out of the gate on extremely resource-constrained mobile devices. The Steve Jobs quip about painting the back of the fence sought to explain why the Apple II and Mac teams cared so much about the inside of the box and even signed it. I am not judging Electron so please relax. This has been downvoted so let me expand on this. Other than that I love the idea of your service, which can turn a blank canvas into a simple text document or a fully featured Airtable-like application, or anything inbetween. I think text, regardless of the number of paragraphs or format, should be one single block until it's actually interrupted by inline data structures like tables or galleries. It leads to side effects like "Select all" on iOS actually not select all, but just the current block/paragraph. this is a very minor issue, but since I often use Notion as a note taking tool the rigid separation of paragraphs into multiple isolated content blocks is rather annoying. Unfortunately the difference in user experience is night and day. I'd like to make Notion a central part of my daily, essential tools - similarly to an app like Things. while the browser-based webapp is mostly fine, the mobile apps feel really subpar and somewhat out of place on iPad and iPhone alike: Sluggish, slow animations, inconsistent keyboard behavior, unnecessarily large fullscreen modals on iPad - it's very noticeable that it isn't a native app. I see a lot of potential for Notion and really enjoy the service, but currently it still feels a little rough.
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