Notion: The most customizable productivity app around

This capable note-taking app and productivity tool can create websites, databases, manage projects, collaboration, and so much more.

- BY LLOYD COOMBES

Plugable (fave.co/4122fJt) has radically redesigned its popular UD-6950PDH docking station, which now comes to the attention of owners of the M1 and M2 (and to a lesser degree M3) Macs. With this docking station, Macs with the plain (non-Pro or Max) Mion.

If you're in or around the tech space (like a discerning Macworld reader would be), then you may have heard of Notion. What originally appears to be a (very capable) note-taking app is actually much more, but ask anyone who uses it regularly what they use it for and you can expect more than one use.

That's because Notion, while it initially feels like a handy document editor, is a powerful database creation suite that features a whole host of features, and now has integrations with standalone Mail and Calendar apps developed by the same team, too.

I've been using Notion for a couple of years to manage my small business, but also to log books and movies I want to watch, cards I want to collect, and much more. In that time, I've consulted dozens of tutorials in an effort to turn it into the productivity tool I wanted it to be, and while there's satisfaction in that process, others will undoubtedly be turned off by the idea of spending that time building the tool before using it.

And yet, with a very generous free plan and more features being added pretty regularly, there's never been a better time to try out Notion.

I use Notion for work, but also for tracking Magic: The Gathering cards I want to buy.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

It's worth noting that while Notion has a Mac (and Windows) app, it is, in many ways, a wrapper of sorts for the web interface, right down to being able to refresh it with CMD + R.