Comment by nashashmi

What is notion?

I have been pulling my hair trying to learn these new no code db tools. And I think I have come to a simple explainer.

It is a list of documents built with (something called) block-editors. Each document can be given properties. The properties get listed into columns. The columns are fields. The documents are rows. And that makes a database table.

In reverse, it is a database table of records. One record can be can be configured with various fields, plus a document "canvas" made by a block-editor.

The block editors can import and display views (aka queries) of database tables. And that is what makes it a full circle spaghetti. A document (listed in a database) can display a database table.