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Notion vs Goodnotes: Which is a better fit?

Updated on January 13th, 2025
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Summary
Features in Note-Taking
26
Best performer
31
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Dashboard
19
31
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Content Scan
User satisfaction
4.7
User reviews2,442
Ease of use
4.3
Functionality
4.6
Value for money
4.6
Customer support
4.4
4.6
User reviews57
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.6
Value for money
4.6
Customer support
4.0
Price starts from
/user
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Yearly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Best for

Notion is a tool for teams and companies that want a better way to manage knowledge, projects, documents, and collaboration. Individuals can also use the product for notes and organizing their lives.

Students, teachers and business professionals across all industries

User reviews
pros & cons
1 / 4
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1 / 4
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Video reviews
Michael C
VP of Marketing
5.0

Michael C.: Hi, I'm Michael. I'm Vice President of Marketing at KORONA POS, and I give Notion a five out of five. Prior to Notion we were using Monday. Monday served our purposes pretty well. It's a decent platform for task management and project management, but some of the user experience and tracking of different projects fell a little short, so we switched to Notion and it's been great ever since. We decided to go with Notion one, it has a great reputation online. Product reviews across the board are solid. Two, we had a few team members internally who used Notion just privately and really, really liked it. So made it a pretty easy decision. It was affordable to try out, and we stuck with it since. Getting started with Notion was remarkably easy. The onboarding process was simple. We were able to have a free trial just to make sure that we liked it, but then once going live, getting the information and projects started was quite easy on my end as the administrator and then all of our users being able to navigate it themselves and update certain projects, add comments, attach files, anything like that. Super simple. So there was next to no learning curve. Before getting Notion for us, we had used a few different platforms for project and task management. All of them kind of came with slight hurdles and hiccups that files weren't being attached correctly or a project had been updated. Somebody had made a comment, but that it didn't reflect properly. So once we got Notion, tracking all of our content production for our blog, tracking different tasks within the marketing department, tracking video production became a lot easier. So if anything, we just wish that we would've made the switch to Notion sooner.

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Notion

Top Features
26/31
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Calendar/Reminder System
  • Calendar Sync
  • Content Scan
  • Reminders
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Annotations
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Document Classification
  • Document Storage
  • Drag & Drop
  • File Sharing
  • Full Text Search
  • Handwriting Recognition
  • Meeting Notes
  • @mentions
  • Multi-Device Support
  • Notes Management
  • Offline Access
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Search/Filter
  • Tagging
  • Task Management
  • Task Tagging
  • Templates
  • To-Do List
  • Wiki
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Goodnotes

19/31
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Notion
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Goodnotes
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Notion
  • By Notion Labs
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2013
Goodnotes
  • By GoodNotes
  • Located in Hong Kong SAR China
  • Founded in 2011
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