“People don’t want to be tethered to the rigidity of the incumbents.” Notion “There’s a generational shift happening to these tools, similar to what we saw when people moved from things like Microsoft Office to more cloud-based tools,” Notion spokeswoman Elaine Greenberg said via email. Unlike Google Docs-which still uses pagination, lets you sort documents into folders, and maintains compatibility with Word-these new editors are unconcerned with supporting legacy concepts. Tools like Notion and Coda follow that idea to its logical conclusion.
But it could also lead to new headaches for users, as companies upend their tried-and-true tools in pursuit of the next big thing. The result could be the first major paradigm shift for document editors in decades. Meanwhile, smaller upstarts Skiff and Craft are putting their own spin on the formula, with respective focuses on privacy and writing. Microsoft itself is working on a modular Office editing system called Fluid Framework. The project management tool Monday launched a document editor in August with clear nods to Notion’s drag-and-drop content blocks.
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A future update to Box’s Box Notes will add anchor links, callout boxes, and overhauled tables. Google Docs added interactive checklists and simpler linking to other documents earlier this year.
While Notion and Coda have both been around for several years, their approach is suddenly attracting a lot of competition. Those pages are also interactive by nature, with checkboxes, charts, Trello-like kanban boards, and tie-ins to outside data sources. Their writing spaces flow freely without page breaks, and they can branch into subpages that link among themselves. Rather, using them feels more like browsing the web. Modern editors such as Notion and Coda don’t mimic the printed page.
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