# Notion

> An all-in-one workspace for notes, documents, wikis and simple databases.

- Level: Basic
- Topics: Tech companies, Software
- URL: https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/notion/
- In Spanish: [Notion](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/es/notion/)

**Notion** is an app for writing and organizing almost anything: personal notes, meeting minutes, a team wiki, a project plan, a reading list. It is made by Notion Labs, a San Francisco company founded in 2013 by Ivan Zhao and Simon Last. The version that made it popular, launched in 2018, spread first among startups and students.

Its central idea is the **block**. Every piece of a page, a paragraph, a heading, a checkbox, an image, an embedded video, is a block you can drag, nest or turn into another kind. Pages can contain other pages, so you build your own structure. And some blocks are databases: tables whose rows are themselves pages, which you can view as a list, a Kanban board, a calendar or a gallery. That is how people build trackers for tasks, clients or recipes without writing code.

Notion is freemium: free for personal use, paid for teams that need more members, permissions and history. It has a large community that shares templates, and it has added AI features that summarize pages, draft text and answer questions about a workspace's content. Its rivals include Google Docs, Microsoft's Loop and OneNote, Confluence from Atlassian, and a long list of note-taking apps.

## An analogy

A box of LEGO for documents. The same bricks can become a notebook, a to-do list, a filing cabinet or a company handbook, depending on how you snap them together.

## Keep in mind

- Made by Notion Labs, founded in 2013 by Ivan Zhao and Simon Last.
- Everything is a block; pages can nest inside pages.
- Databases turn tables into boards, calendars and galleries.
- Free for individuals, paid for teams, with AI features added.

## Go deeper

- [Notion (official site)](https://www.notion.com/)
- [Notion (productivity software) on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notion_(productivity_software))

## Related terms

- [Database](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/database/): An organized store of data that programs can search and update safely.
- [Agile and Scrum](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/agile-and-scrum/): Building software in short cycles, showing results often and adjusting as you learn.
- [Artificial intelligence](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/artificial-intelligence/): Getting computers to do things that, until recently, only people could do.
- [Google](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/google/): The search company that gives most products away and makes its money on ads.
- [Microsoft](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/microsoft/): The company of Windows and Office, now just as much a cloud company with Azure.
- [Atlassian](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/atlassian/): The Australian company behind Jira and Confluence, tools teams use to plan and document work.