Why I Switched from Notion to Stacks: A Maker's Perspective on Productivity

It's 2 AM. You've just had a brilliant idea. You quickly jot it down in Apple Notes before sleep claims you. Fast forward to the next day, and you're juggling work to-dos in Linear, personal tasks in Notion, random URLs in Slack and Raindrop, and that brilliant idea? It's lost somewhere in the digital ether. Why? We don’t have any accountability on them.

— I manually collect todos/action items and write them down in my daily plan.

— I rarely re-open/ forget things I saved for later such as a blog to read or an article that I must read.

— I lose focus and switch context while juggling between tools.

— I need a simple tool that works with the speed of thoughts.

Sound familiar? You're not alone.

We have welcomed the digital era with open arms as knowledge workers. Numerous tools have been adopted by us with the promise of improving productivity, streamlining our lives, and acting as a "second brain." However, we've managed to generate a maze of information in the process.

Data Dispersed Throughout Platforms: Thoughts from the night before in Apple Notes, business assignments in Linear, personal duties in Notion, and intriguing links in Raindrop or Slack.

The "Save for Later" Black Hole: Despite our best efforts, we clip articles, bookmark links, and save ideas, but we never go back to them.

Manual Consolidation: To generate a daily plan, one must manually gather action items from diverse sources on a scavenger hunt basis every day.

Context Switching Chaos: Flipping between several tools causes concentration problems and reduces output.

Speed Mismatch: While our tools move slowly, our ideas move quickly.

The Notion Conundrum

For many of us, Notion was the best option available. It offered adaptability, personalization, and the capacity to design our ideal productivity system. However, after using it for months or years, various cracks start to appear:

Slow Loading Times: It seems like forever to wait for pages to load when you have to change templates quickly.

Concealed Data: Once a record is saved in a template, it frequently vanishes into the digital void and is only accidentally found again.

Absence of Workflow: Although you can store an infinite amount of data, processing and acting upon it still need human labor and are frequently neglected tasks.

Absence of Accountability: There's no internal mechanism to notify you of unfinished business, abandoned objectives, or capacity problems.

High Price, Slow Speed: shelling out more money for a database that loads slowly.

The harsh truth? Notion, for all its power, frequently turns into a location where knowledge hibernates. It's a full-stack note-taking program that lets you create custom databases or tools for organization. However, compiling and entering data into a database is merely motion, not activity.

Let's dive into Stacks: Where Ideas Meet Action.

For makers who would prefer to concentrate on their creative process over task organization, you require a tool that processes information quickly and facilitates productivity. Stacks steps in at this point.

Stacks is designed to be your unified web workspace, seamlessly integrating with your digital life to:

Capture ideas and information at lightning speed
Automatically organize and surface relevant content when you need it
Create actionable workflows from your stored knowledge
Provide accountability and reminders to keep you on track
Provide lightning-fast performance in line with your mental model.

Stacks is your digital co-pilot in a world where there is an abundance of information. It guides you through the seas of data until you arrive at actionable insights and finished tasks.
Are you prepared to revamp your digital process? Try Stacks out and see how your productivity path differs from motion and action.