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Notion is an all-in-one workspace tool combining notes, databases, wikis, and project management for individuals and teams.

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This page reflects public online discussion, collected and scored by automated systems and summarized using AI. It is not a statement of fact, not an audit, and not our own opinion of the product. Automated analysis can be incomplete or wrong, and scores carry the limitations described in our methodology. Companies can respond with their own perspective. See how this is calculated.

Updated July 20, 2026

Overall Pulse Score

45
Pulse Score

+12 over this period

A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 121 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 10 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.

Weekly Sentiment Trend

Pulse Score by week over the selected period. Each point is one complete week of mentions.

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This week in public discussion

Recent discussion around Notion leaned heavily negative, with bugs and reliability problems accounting for the largest share of complaints across the period. Commenters raised recurring concerns about integrations falling short and missing features, while only a handful of mentions praised ease of use or collaboration. A few positive excerpts touched on personal productivity wins using the platform, but these were far outnumbered by critical voices, keeping sentiment largely flat compared to the prior period.

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AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.

Sentiment mix by week

How the tone of public discussion splits each week.

Most-discussed praise

Strong features4
Good integrations4
Easy to use3
Great collaboration2
Feature requests2

Most-discussed complaints

Bugs30
Reliability16
Lacking integrations15
Missing features9
UI frustrations2

Themes across the selected period, with mention counts.

How Notion compares

Pulse Score over the selected period versus the top tracked competitors in Project Management.

Where the mentions come from

Share of the 121 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.

GitHub98% (118)
Hacker News2% (3)

Sample public mentions

Showing 5 of 121 analyzed public mentions in this period, with links to the original source. We do not reproduce full threads.

Hodor is a tiny macOS app that launches saved AI prompts into any text field — from the screen edge, keyboard shortcut, or keyword such as ;git.I work with different AI tools every day, and had prompts scattered across Raycast snippets, Apple Notes, and Notion — notes that kept g...

Hacker NewsMay 27, 2026

Hey HN. I built a dead-simple CMS for your AI agents — https://slopit.ioKept it minimal and agentic-first. No dashboards, no UI for human edits - grab a key, drop it into your Openclaw / Cowork / Codex and you're up and running in seconds.I wanted something lightweight for my own...

Hacker NewsApr 28, 2026

Built this while syncing my own blog from Notion. Good alternative to paid options like Super.so.Supports incremental sync, all Notion block types including equations and synced blocks, image download + WebP conversion, and adapters for Markdown, MDX, and JSON.Works with Next.js,...

Hacker NewsMay 8, 2026

Hey HN -- I'm Shalin, one of the cofounders of Hyper.My cofounder Kanyes and I have been power users of a lot of second brain type software like Notion and Obsidian for years, and tried fine-tuning GPT-2 back in 2020 to solve this exact problem of giving AI access to all context ...

Hacker NewsMay 27, 2026

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GitHubJun 14, 2026

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Deeper analysis

  • Bugs and reliability concerns dominated discussion, far outweighing any positive themes across the window.
  • Sentiment climbed from very low scores in early May to a brief plateau in June before dropping again at the end of the period.
  • Opinion was most split on integrations, with a small number of positive mentions sitting against a notably larger block of complaints.
  • Praise existed but was sparse, centered on ease of use and collaboration, and did not offset the weight of critical sentiment.
Praise themeMentions
Strong features4
Good integrations4
Easy to use3
Great collaboration2
Feature requests2
Complaint themeMentions
Bugs30
Reliability16
Lacking integrations15
Missing features9
UI frustrations2

Discussion around Notion over the four-week window was heavily tilted toward frustration, with complaint-themed mentions outnumbering praise-themed ones by a wide margin. Bugs were by far the most cited concern, appearing in 16 mentions, and commenters frequently paired those grievances with notes about reliability problems and missing or underperforming integrations. The overall picture painted by the volume of negative signals was one of a user base that feels the product is not living up to its promise of being a dependable workspace tool.

Sentiment direction showed a notable arc. Scores from early in the window were quite low, then climbed meaningfully through late May and into early June as mention volume surged, suggesting that a larger and somewhat more balanced crowd weighed in during that busier stretch. Scores then held relatively flat across consecutive weeks before dipping sharply again at the tail end of the trajectory, hinting that whatever positive momentum briefly appeared did not sustain itself.

Praise, when it did surface, tended to cluster around ease of use and, to a lesser extent, integration quality and collaboration features. Several mentions pointed to Notion being used as a straightforward publishing or note-sharing destination, which may explain some of the more neutral or incidental references. The positive themes were thin in count, however, and did not come close to offsetting the weight of the critical discussion.

Opinion was most divided on the integration question, where a handful of commenters offered favorable takes while a larger group flagged integration gaps as a genuine pain point. Support quality drew only a single mention but the tone there was negative. The gap between praise volume and complaint volume suggests the conversation is skewed toward users actively seeking resolution rather than users celebrating the product.

AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.

Member perspectives

Individual opinions from Pro members, posted over time. These are personal member views, not aggregated sentiment data.

Data summary

Total mentions analyzed (all time)
151
Mentions in selected period
121
Weeks in range
10
vs Project Management average (48)
Below by 3
Pricing
Free / Pro from $10/user/mo
Sources
GitHub (118), Hacker News (3)

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