MeisterNote - Stunning online documentation - write, organize, collaborate

@mhollauf This looks beautiful and sleek. Congratulations on your launch.

@nihalbhushan Thanks, our team did another awesome job there, hope you'll like using it too 🙂

@mhollauf @nihalbhushan go

@mhollauf i love the video, it looks so sleek and could use it to get a lot of work done without distraction from competing tabs

Great work here! What make it stand out from say google docs? Good luck with the launch!

@mutasem_al_abweh As a paid-up Meister employee, my answer would be that it is better in every imaginable way. However, from a neutral perspective, there are a number of key differences between MeisterNote and Notion - some are functional, others are philosophical - and the tool you choose depends very much on personal choice and your requirements. So, here goes: Notion is what you might describe as an "all-in-one workspace" - this means that in addition to being a digital notepad, it has certain functionalities that make it relevant for a variety of other use cases too. It has Kanban boards and other widgets that you can add on to mange different activities within a workflow. There are obviously very positive aspects to this, namely that the tools you use are "under one roof" so to speak. However, it has negatives as well. Firstly, the feature-heavy nature of Notion can make the tool seem very cluttered and confusing to operate, and secondly, Notion (we think) falls into a "jack of all trades, master of none" trap. In my own opinion, the Kanban boards aren't as good as a dedicated tool's would be, nor are the whiteboarding or mind mapping widgets. It's okay - but if you're really serious about any of the "secondary topics" you would need a different tool anyway. On the other hand, Meister is a dedicated documentation app. It doesn't try to be a million different tools at the same time, because we think that a simple, intuitive documentation experience is what teams need most. The question is this: what happens when you need to use a Kanban board, or integrate a mind map, as part of your project documentation or ideation process? That's why we've built MeisterNote to connect seamlessly to MeisterTask, our online task management tool, and MindMeister, our online mind mapping tool via the Meister Suite. We've also included integrations with plenty of other external software that teams know and love, which can be called up easily within your notes via the "Embed" content block. In basic terms, MeisterNote has the potential to match (or even better) the functionality of Notion, but is much more flexible in terms of scaling. So essentially your choice is between one tool that does a lot of things in a "good enough" way and a suite of connected, dedicated tools that fulfil the same purpose with a fair bit more depth. In terms of user experience, we feel that our offering is a much better proposition - I hope you agree there!

@mutasem_al_abweh As a user I was about to write something among the lines of what the ?makers already did, so, there you go mate +1

@thomas_george2 Thomas! Your reply is over the top! :D I am happy MeisterNote has someone like you. I do agree with many of the drawbacks that you point out from Notion, but still agree that the Kanban boards for me in the same tool is more meaningful right now for my personal use. (I do admit though; Notion can look really complicated so I just use Kan ban boards rn) I tried introducing Notion to my team at work but they were more interested in tangible white boards where you use a marker to make adjustments. It got really messy tbh (marker stains and all) but that's what the team wanted. I think what stands out most from what you said is "It doesn't try to be a million different tools at the same time, because we think that a simple, intuitive documentation experience is what teams need most." What brought you to this conclusion? "An intuitive documentation experience." Do you mean drafting, preparing and sending MOMs on MS Word are a 'waste of time'? Use MeisterNote instead? Do you mean something else entirely? No worries :) I am just tryna link my experience with what you said with what I 've done. How about managing maintenance in a building? Like imagine making daily rounds to check for toilet paper in bathrooms, relatively full water coolers, to check for any lights in the building that aren't working, stuff like that...Would you recommend using MeisterNote instead of an Excel Sheet ? Why/why not? How/how not (features)? Thanks again and tyt to reply :D

@iponopi thanks for the kudos - yes, there will definitely be a mobile app, like we have them for MindMeister and MeisterTask. For now there's only a web-based view only mode since we think that consuming content is the most important use case on mobile, and we want to iron out the UI and feature set on the web app first before jumping into native development.

@the_jackal Thank you so much for your feedback 😍 We are writing, editing and storing all our copy in MeisterNote and absolutely love it ❤️

@__tosh Thank you so much for your support 🎉

@sheikhanon Thank you so much for the feedback 🎉