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Does this provide database functionality like seen in Notion?

I'm always disappointed by note-taking tools calling themselves a Notion alternative when they do not provide an alternative to Notion and are instead just another note-taking tool with a simple UI.

If you want to be a Notion alternative provide the things that make Notion great, e.g. the database functionality. It's okay to be a simple colaborative notes tool, but that is not a Notion alternative.




As far as I know, the database part is handled by Grist, listed on the suite of tools this note app is part of.

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr

Of course, it's not a replacement to Notion yet.


I'm actually not talking about how they handle the database but instead the Database feature of Notion, which is more of a advanced table for the user that can be turned into a Kanban, timeline, calendar, etc. It's one of the main advantages Notion has over other note-taking tools.


Sorry, my comment was not clear. The database of La Suite is Grist. Notes is part of La Suite, a broader project. https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr


Yup, this is my biggest question too. I'd love to switch to this but I definitely need my relational database features.


It's a little like products that brands themselves as a "Jira replacement". Yes, you got the basic functionality down, but so does a hundred other projects. You're not really dealing with the hard problems or the advanced features. Maybe in the future yes, but a replacement... a potential future replacement maybe.


Tbf Jira's "hard problems" are really things that shouldn't be done in the first place, like the insane configurability. Just ends up in a mess.

The problem with Jira is that it's enterprise software that's put in place by people that don't actually have to use it.


Hey! Docs’s PM here.

IMO Notion really made an awesome job with real-time, collab features (comments, suggestions) and useful AI actions. So much, people only see databases ^^.

For now we’ll be focusing on these. That’s already plenty ^^ Further down road we’ll if we manage to take on databases.


Craft has collections for tables of data, also has a variety of other data modeled things like TODOs: https://www.craft.do/


Sadly that tool seems to be subscription only? And it does not have an Android version even though they are on iOS.


Not really a database, but I've made a prototype integration of Docs with IronCalc: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs/pull/466

This could also take the form of a custom block that you could embed in a text document.




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