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The ikea effect is maybe why people love minecraft so much, you are putting dedicated hours into building your perfect treehouse. And the meta game comes along with it as well
Tell me.. I spent a week building a calculator without tutorials in Minecraft when I was 15
@@enricotartarotti that explains why I love foobar2000 so much too. After I organize stuff like music libraries I feel attached to it.
Take the next step and DIY everything you can!
Becomes spiritual eventually
No kidding. Notion felt like a new programming language and excel on steroids lol
@@enricotartarotti dude thats insane
Takeaways:
• Notion is a software tool that claims to transform one's productivity and organization skills.
• It combines different features of other software tools such as note-taking, to-do lists, project management, and more.
• Notion's success can be attributed to its simplicity and user-friendliness, which is the result of its founders' efforts to distill the most essential features of existing software.
• Notion is based on three key psychological principles: the Ikea effect, Maslow's hammer, and the metagame.
• The Ikea effect describes how people attribute more value to things they build themselves, which applies to Notion since users spend time building their perfect templates.
• Maslow's hammer refers to the tendency to use familiar tools for all purposes, which drives people to try and solve every aspect of their lives with a Notion database.
• The metagame describes how Notion's user community has created a vast infrastructure of tutorials, events, strategies, and more, which has contributed to the software's success.
you can write these takeaways in notion
@@kennethkho7165 Yes thanks! its a great tool, you need 8 usd month with your brain its free
Some people buy or use apps their idols or generally famous persons use because they think if they do, their life will be transformed. Like setting up an office just like Steven King has. If I only use the same desk and chair my pal Steven uses, a best seller will flow from my iPad.
To be productive and get your thingy done, a pad of paper and pen works well. Most people tend to emulate others and success will never greet them at the door.
That hundreds of companies use Notion means very little to me. I read about corporations using Notion and their logos appear in many other app web sites as well.
Sorry to rant on and on.
@@kennethkho7165 I prefer obsidian
thanks
Every time I look at Notion, I think “wow that looks like a huge pain to configure and I don’t feel like doing that.” I guess that’s kind of what they’re counting on: that sunken cost fallacy from having dumped so much time into making it something you want to use just incentivizes using it.
A large part of its selling point might be that it is like a fidget toy for people who crave feeling busy.
Notion is free and you do not have to give up features on the free plan. Millions perhaps use Notion on the free plan and that costs Notion money. Notion is not a pain. If you want a simple note app, Notion gives it to you. It is as complex or simple as you want or need.
Perhaps I am missing your poi t.
Notion is as simple as you want it to be and as complex as you need it to be. I started using it as a simple note app and now run two businesses on it.
People who are shills for apps are weird.
@@AROAH People who dump on apps they don't understand are weirder
Notion is big for a reason. When i found it about it, i wanted to cry because i immediately thought about how freakin useful this would have been if i knew about it back in highschool and college. The organization, the databases, the side-view options to view two pieces of data at the same time, unbelievable. I've got my own customized dashboard now that i know exactly where everything is and where to go when i have a sudden hyperfixation pop up. The three main things you mentioned in the video are true, but i think there's also something to be said about how Notion is just a really really good product. When it works for one's organization method, it works amazingly.
I have recently started watching your videos and I am blown away by the content you have here. I love that you get right to the topic (no clickbait stuff), cover it from quite a lot of angles and present it in a manner that allows the viewer to understand and consume it at their own pace.
Keep up the great work! Hope you reach millions and millions of subscribers soon!
Thanks!
Same here
Honestly if not for your pin comment I was already about to write a long ass essay as to how notion had actually helped me 😂. But I see what you didn’t here . And ps this is just a psychological click bait
Notion is a gamechanger for us neurodivergent folk precisely because everything is in one spot. I have ADHD and I forget things I don't see every day and the more complex the productivity system, the less likely I am going to adopt it. I physically cannot use more than two or three apps, otherwise my brain starts sounding off alarms. Now that Notion has become so familiar, I was able to get used to using more apps, but it's still the backbone of my getting things done. I use Todoist for my to dos as I love the speed of it to capture ideas and tasks, but I plan things, make notes, write, keep my knowledge all in Notion. So I don't care what they do, why they do it, I'm just glad they came up with this system.
As someone with adhd, notion makes me feel so much more focused.
Same here! I don't use it as a Todo app, but more of a Reference app where I do more complex things. It's amazing cause once you learn it, it has the functionality of Word and Excel, but there's the option to make it look WAYY Nicer and it also saves automatically and is more flexible. It's such a good place to organize the finer points of life, especially when I can't remember anything for shit.
Exactly, everything is in one place and when i go look at one this on my notion, I can't help but come across another thing i have to do or not forget about, i still have to get more familiar with it but it really looks like a game changer for me right now
Hmm, I might have to give it a shot then, it seems so overwhelming though.
@@dylan8389 It definitely takes time to set up. I recommend watching the tutorials on Notion's own youtube channel and then watch some setups from other people to get the gist of what's possible to do with it. It took me a week or so to get used to it and some more time to really get comfortable with all the databases. But for me it was worth it.
I remember I had so much fun setting up my Notion.
Of course I never used it.
😂😂😂
wondering if that will happen to me. just started using it but other freelance writers use it consistently as a client portal.
I’d be curious how long that took. I’ve programming experience (but not any with databases) and why bother learning motion when I could use eg Things or just an outliner.
@@servantrose Depends on your priorities. If you want utility from it, you'll get it. If you're just building something for the sake of it, adding new aesthetic things once in a while, eventually you'll run out of ways to make it more aesthetic and with it, the interest to keep going.
THATS ACCURATE!
Same here.
I agree! Personaly, I can't use Notion for any planning or todo lists, but I still use it to organise my notes or ideas. Something like a personal website with everything I need. :D
same, I admit that since using Notion, I can organize my worldbuilding better and easier despite my account already have limited storage..... than doing by myself which takes almost a decade 😅
You nailed it. Ikea effect + Maslow’s hammer. There’s one more effect, that I might call the Lego effect: if, instead of making a deep, narrow tool, you make a wide shallow tool, like Legos, that lets you build anything with it, that has a real value in its flexibility. Minecraft, HyperCard, pencil, and paper, HTML, and programming languages all have this quality. Having bought a couple Notion templates, however, there is one big caution - it takes a lot discipline to build something that someone else can use.
In a way, Notion became that hammer for me. I could organize everything that I had spread all around the computer into a single place and all that even became searchable.
I replaced random todo.txt files, Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, Evernote's .... notes.
It surely is not great at everything, but it is enough to keep me organized (or at least feel like it).
For most stuff the setup was minimal, but moving the notes with tags was quite the nightmare 😅
Mate, this is some sick content.
Please never change your style of content in the future for simplification. It's very rare to find detailed videos like this.
I especially love what you say at the end about notion users going from unproductive to founders 😂😂😂😂 as I'm literally in the process of understanding the nature of my business and using notion a lot to keep track of expenses, quarterly projects and hope to one day upgrade the plan when I'm able to hire an assistant.
Same
I clicked so fast :D haha, always thought there is some conspiracy about Notion :D
The consipracy is real!
It's kinda true. You can tell that it's REALLY got into the minds of users in an almost unhealthy cult-like way
I like that you find an interesting and educating aspect to your videos. Really makes you stand out! Quality stuff!
That's what I'm aiming for, glad you liked it!
These are the same reasons that Obsidian is treated in a similar way. But Obsidian is even more flexible and has many many extensions. I've spent soo much time tweaking on both Notion and Obsidian D:
I love Obsidian.
I love obsidian, it's so customizable
@@altertopias I have no idea how customizable it really is. I just know I like it and markdown. I will play with more than just doing stuff. Thank you so much. Very much appreciated.
@@ALulzyApprentice i have gradually added templates and plugins as needed, and now i have something that fits my needs like a glove, really recommend it. for me it has been anything from dataview to simple things to use emojis or format text
What I always suggest is this: new Obsidian users should turn off most plugins and stop downloading countless themes. Obsidian is feature rich but only as complex as you want it to be. Features will be there waiting for you.
Obsidian can be a featureless note taking app or a complex nightmare, so try to reach a comfortable balance and learn the app.
I just discovered your channel today and your videos are really well thought-out and interesting. Thank you for taking time to make them!
I totally get the appeal of Notion, but it is so daunting to get into. Everything being on the cloud meant that it took a while to load what I wanted quickly; making it extremely cumbersome.
Obsidian is a lot easier to get into, but the linking of notes isn't really useful until you get a handful of notes. I did try to get most of my notes on there, but I ended up just using Samsung Notes for everything.
Both Notion and Obsidian are really cool for what they are. But they seem like solutions for problems I don't really have.
@@jensenraylight8011 the way you wrote that comment with such strong bias gives me reason to take it with a huge grain of salt.
@@user-yv6xw7ns3o well, you can use both of it and judge it yourself.
i'm not here to convince you anything, i'm here to share my own experience.
feel free to disagree
i've experience more than dozen of Productivity apps in the past, and i'm done ton of long and painful data migration before.
my experience sure worth something for someone out there
@@jensenraylight8011 appreciate hearing that you have quite a lot of experience, makes your comment more understandable.
I hate cloud based products - I want my program on my devices and I want it stored solid-state on those devices.
I love Obsidian
I use it for study notes and stuff
very customizable and easy to use
I just have a notebook and a pen
I love the directness and straightforwardness of your videos.
Take this with a grain of salt, because I’m a Notion fanboy - but I think a key reason people love it so much is because of how powerful the relations are. What you mentioned certainly play a part, but leveraging the database relations really puts Notion above and beyond any other productivity tool. I think putting to-do lists and other items into a separate app - essentially in a vacuum - is a huge mistake and a missed opportunity.
I guess it's a good thing I use obsidian then
this made so much sense and it was so entertaining man. It really makes me stop for a second and think how I can use the psychology behind it to my advantage
Also discovered your channel a few days ago and watched all videos. I'm sure the channel will blow up, your videos are super interesting and well made!
Welcome aboard!
I found your channel a few days ago and feel like I found the ground floor of something that's going to become big! Keep the content coming!
Your channel is a seam of hidden gems! So glad to see you taking off! 😊
This guys energy makes his videos fantastic.
Love the analysis! I'm currently unable to live without Notion and all of these reasons explain why. Great to learn this as as UX designer as well!
Your Videos Just keep getting better. Keep It up my friend🙂
Thank you!
I have been using it for 1 year and I could easily see myself using this for a very long time. I started with a simple setup and over time I made it more complex over time.
Im obsessed with Notion myself and this video very acurately describes me why so!
If it wasn't clear, I actually am a fan of Notion and find the way they leveraged these psychological principles in their product so fascinating. I currently use it to manage making these YT videos + having my fulltime product manager job so it looks like it's working!
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Personally I call this "Cozy" computing.
The programming community has been doing this for years, through both emacs, and...
This: czcams.com/video/FhhyqkbtaR4/video.html
How can Notion help new AI models get accomplished overnight? AI models for communities. For income disparity. For housing crisis'. So refugees mortality rate is safe? Great vid. SF, CA USA
Thanks - it wasn’t clear to me. It did start me thinking about the time I’d invested in my previous notion system, or my current obsidian system, and my OmniFocus system before both of these - all of which sadly have only given me the dream of being more productive but not the reality. And your video made me look at the psychology of why I might be doing this.
@@rb.xbro ur spitting facts
Just one problem - can't notion (verb) offline!
The last part is so true, If I ever build a startup, I'll definitely use notion for everything there.
Great video this covers something I've always wondered about and you answered it well...
Great video on the ‘why’ perspective of Notion- I've been trying to sort this out for a while now. I've circled back to Notion no less than 5 times (and ultimately forgot about Notion shortly after each time) over the past 2 years and just can't get into using it. I've watched tutorials, purchased templates, spent hours trying to set up my own systems within it, and at the end of the day it just wasn't for me. Sometimes I feel like I'm missing out on this “magic” that so many other people find in it, but it's just not for me. At the end of the day it's what works best for you.
Great content as always, love from Italy 💪
Nicely done. Thanks for creating this video!
Stumbled upon several of your videos, nice analysis, delivery and presentation!
Incredible. Great job bro!
I enjoy the simplicity. I’ve switched from bullet journaling to notion
It’s wild that you don’t have more subscribers, great video again Enrico!!
Your videos are produced really well. A lot a continuity across different videos makes it nice to watch your videos in a sequence. Also, de editing skills are definitely there.
This was such a great video. Editing is 🔥
Hi, I’m Gaia, a rare italian who doesn’t know how to properly cook a meal too.
I subscribed and fill out your form about how to make a video. I’m very interested in the process behind it. I was looking for Notion Set Up Tutorial then I click on your video because I was feeling it: it was an OBSESSION and I didn’t know WHY. You explained it in a funny way. Now, I don’t know if I’m going to open Notion again, maybe I will do it for the Ikea effect. I’m pretty sure I could create a fancy aesthetically pleasing Notion setup which I would never really use. Let’s see :D
Sorry for my weird written english :S
Good video. I'm a recent convert to Notion and this was really illuminating about why I like it so much.
Great Video! Thanks you Enrico!
This video is SO freakin' well done. I got on the notion train 3 years ago when the hype was rising. At first it felt very overwhelming. But as I kept playing with it, I couldn't help but feel a deep sense of pride in what I had built (even though it's really not that impressive lol). Thanks for making this video!
I'd never heard of Notion when your video hit my feed, now I feel like using it.
So glad that YT recommendations work, as I’ve watched one of your videos lately and subscribed)
Great quality content - really enjoy it!
Keep up the good work, man. All the best 🙏🏻
this video added a lot of value - well done
Wow. I've been trying to use Notion because of the hype, but I've found it to be counterintuitive and I find myself feeling guilty wanting to just go back and making my own Google sheet to organize my thoughts. This video takes that guilt away.
I had a similar experience with Notion, ended up with Obsidian and now it's one of my most essential applications next to Firefox and FreePlane.
If you like a more minimalist approach (and markdown), where the tool doesn't stand in your way in the beginning, it's really easy to start small, just collect all kinds of short notes in Obsidian and get into the more complicated advanced stuff bit by bit or when you really need some feature (and there's a bunch of plug-ins for almost every use-case imaginable).
If you rely on tables a lot, Obsidian might not be the optimal tool, though (there's probably a whole lot of plug-ins and workarounds for simple to mid-level use of tables but that wouldn't exactly make for a simple and easy to use experience for a new user).
You can always go back to whatever worked before for you like Google Sheets. You don't have to get stuck with Notion or other apps. It's okay not to do everything in Notion.
If you try to use notion because of the hype and not really understand what it’s built for and expect it to have no learning curve, then notion is really not for you. Notion’s power is not about being easy to use, it’s about how far you can customize it to suits your needs, if you are willing to put the time to learn it. There is nothing wrong to use google sheet or any software as long as it helps you to get things done and serve the purpose.
its for people who like "make busy" work without actually doing any productive. Humans did fine with pen and pager and word/excel. Many thousands of hyper successful companies used simple Apps to build@@Thekidisalright
Very nice presentations and motion graphics! But I'm old school analogue with all the post-it notes stuck to the wall in front of my desk. I sometimes even use my windows as a white board to draw diagrams, lists of tasks or ideas.
Thanks, this was the bit I was missing!
You honestly might've just saved the trajectory of my life by showing this app off. I've had issues with productivity and memory for many years and always wanted a way to organize my routine for optimization. This shit is fucking golden.
In any relational database program like Access and Base you start with tables, queries, forms and reports with quaint user interface and somewhat burdensome user experience in getting to what module you want. Notion made this easy with simplicity and aesthetically straightforward for non-programmers to program and set what they like without having to construct modules like programmers do. That's the beauty of Notion.
I found your vids veeeery ptoductive and analysis on tech is beyond expectation. Good cheers from Korea. Woww.
I love notion because it can do anything you want, all in one spot. no more having a journal and a calendar and like 10 notebooks I never use, now it’s all together where I’ve put it
Genius take! Thanks for sharing.
Notion is like the feeling you get when something is just so practical and convenient that you want to use it just for the sake of it being useful lol
I'm glad that I never heard of Notion until I saw your video
Great video and great insights!
so well presented , subscribed
honestly, for me it just makes it harder to be productive by planning and organising everything. the notion of, well, organising your notion keeps you in the notion of being productive. for me a sharpie and post it notes does tenfolds
agreed. humans did just fine with Word docs and excel...you literally don't need anything else.
Newcomer to the channel, your videos are fascinating. Keep up the good work!
Do not ever tell Notion's founders that the free version has everything.
limited storage capacity is a big issue when you use pictures in your systems
@@3dvince The limit regards the images' weight, but unless you exceed that limit you can store as many as you want. When it does, I just make them smaller. If you need them big, well in that case you pay.
From my perspective I did everything you mentioned in the video (metagame, ikea effect, etc.) but it effected my productivy. I was barely studying 3 hours a day and trying to plan my next week and next month. But never accomplishing any of the task I wrote. When i started to use notion I could all the statistics and it was fun to use and building a page made me feel great, ikea effect.
I came up with an approach for taking notes, using simply text files and file folders on my pc. I use notepad++ to view the files, and to do searching when necessary. I wish the searching was faster, and I rely heavily on tabs, but otherwise it is sufficient.
You can maybe try Obsidian. You'd just work with markdown files. You can organize with folders, tags, etc. You can have several tabs or panes as well. You can query tags, etc. too.
I never paid attention until last and ofc now i get recommend without template
really cool insights!
I stumbled upon notion by accident. It’s been an absolute game-changer and I didn’t know how popular it is until now. I love how customizable it is.
I originally started using it just to categorize and store video ideas but now I use it for my every day journal, prayer journal, and more. It’s so great to have a one-stop shop for all this stuff and it can easily be loaded up on any platform and it syncs super well. The iCloud notes don’t sync super well and it’s a hassle to load it up on PC. Notion also saves me a ton of time with letting me create templates and customize everything for maximum productivity
I’ve found Notion to be quite useful but daunting to build a system in. In the end, after figuring out what it can and can’t do easily for me, I decided to use it only for aspects of organising information that fall into a certain level of complexity that is within Notion’s sweet spot.
Anything that is too complex for Notion gets a bespoke solution, anything too simple to bother with, I don’t bother with.
you're not a sellout, GOOD video 😎
I really like notion for the cloud based database aspects without any infrasture needed. I totally agree, It's not great for tasks since it doesn't have great recurrance, reminders, etc.
But it does. You can set a task to be recurrent how you want it to recurr, put reminders on it, setting the date, hour of the reminder.
If I'm not wrong, you can make it send you reminders through Gmail as well. Havent tried it, but yeah.
It does, I set up reminders and daily tasks that update itself in the calendar every midnight on the days I want it done so when I wake up I just need a glacé to see what I need to do, it’s completely automated all I need is to check them once they are done.
Youre my new favority on here! Great and smart videos!
Welcome aboard!
thanks bro!! I like your videos. I'm studying English and I always see you videos!!. gracias bro espero pronto entenderte al 100%
Don't give up! I'm italian and english is not my native language, anything can be learned!
Bruh, you’re breakdown is so spot on, brilliant assessment. You are 💯 correct.
Hey Enrico, I don't comment on youtube videos (ever!) but I wanted to put the effort in to give you a shout out. You've found a nice niche in the youtube community and I really want to emphasise that I think you should stick with the current content in it's style and presentation, you're doing an amazing job!
Great watch! I think for myself stuff like notion and OneNote i just end up using out of convenience because they are better than most note taking apps I've come across. So i don't even actually maximize them to their full potential in the end since my use is purely as a way of me being able to have things across my devices and edit them on the fly whether I'm on my phone or pc or tablet. Be it work related stuff, or grocery lists or drafting up writing etc :)
Amazing Video!
excelent content mate
I love notion for the same reason I love bullet journaling. It’s an adaptive tool that changes with me, that I can customize and be creative with while still being organized and having everything in one place. It’s a dream come true for neurodivergent people. Same with bullet journaling. At this point I think you’re either a ‘notion person’ or you’re not.
I tried it and it was "meh". It's not radically different or really better than any other notes/management app. I stick with my tried and true google keep strategy from 2013. Ultra fast notes, instant access anywhere. Not the most feature rich but works every time without being cumbersome. Not really collaborative but I don't really need collaboration for note taking, haha.
wild take to say that notion isn't radically different than something like google keep
I'm thinking of switching from Keep to Notion, can you elaborate on why you didn't like Notion?
For personal use and small team project, I love Notion. It could organize my daily activities that I'm familiar with. For a large and enterprise, it's not really suitable. Because I've had one incident that Notion just went down that day. And the entire PM works is lost
I fell into the Notion vortex realizing soon enough that my task management was doing great with Things 3, and that my digital filing system was working great with Evernote (which I've been using for over a decade) both are those dedicated apps you mentioned. Why would I transfer my to-do lists, my PDFs, my uncountable Docs and Notes to an unknown, harder-to-grasp app, when the ones I'm using work so well? Yes, Notion is a very good-looking, appealing app and I'm sure when I run into the right situation it can prove very useful.
Very interesting concepts the Ikea Effect and Maslow Hammer. I did like learning about those! So here's my like my good man!
Awesome, I like your videos.
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Damn, the thing about the ikea effect is definitely true! Thanks for the great video :)
I started using it properly yesterday and yes I can concur you can drown in setting up instead of being productive, and you might try and be smart by saying you will use free templates online but that's when the Metagame creeps in. Perfect video bro 100%
This video is so hilarious but so surreal and painfully honest lol
The best video about Notion, EVER!!... And the most intelligent too... Congratulations!....
Wow! That’s fantastic
wow great analysis
Good stuff
Thanks Ali, really means a lot coming from you! (I am based in London too, would love to link up)
1 like and one comment, lemme fix that!
Cool video mate
I was always wondering and am suprised that all those CZcams videos on Notion mostly aren't actually sponsored lol.
Absolutely informative video
Great vid bro
Awesome video!
(and the fact that Notion is the opposite of productivity tool is the reason why I stick with Apple Notes for quick notes and Skiff Pages for markdown notes)
Awesome you owned a subscriber bro cheers 🥂.
I use Notion mainly for note-taking, project and goal management. I prefer to use other apps like Tick Tick as a todo list cause its way easier for me to quickly insert a to-do on the go. I'm aware that there are probably better apps for the former things I mentioned, but I like my digital workspace to specifically how I want it. Notion provides the customization that I crave and its free version lets me accomplish my needs.
Same 👍
I am known as having an obsession with Notion at work and am constantly pushing for us to use it so adds up... but still its really cool and everyone should use it
Notion is to organization, what Excel is to managing data and calculations. It's so fast to build interesting layout that for sure you want to do everything with it. It's the same that happens with Excel. Doing calculations is the minimum effort for the program. You can do whatever you want with it, even managing files or making videogames (it has Visual Basic inside). I'm a devoted user of Notion since before it became mainstream on youtube.