MeisterNote is a collaborative documentation tool that makes creating and organizing information simple. It's a writing app with your team at its heart: the perfect solution for team knowledge bases, internal communication, project documentation and much more.
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Thanks for stopping by! On behalf of the whole MeisterNote team, I'm delighted to welcome the PH community (and the world) to our beautiful new tool. 💛
MeisterNote drives information creation and sharing into an extraordinary new dimension. You can use the tool to create team knowledge bases 💡, perfect your meeting management strategies 🤝, achieve clearer internal communication 📢, and manage your project documentation ✅.
As a single user, it's perfect for personal notes and self-management too 📝. All of this in a beautiful, streamlined interface that makes the tool a joy to use.
Looks matter in MeisterNote because you, our users, matter too 👫. It's important to our vision that users enjoy their work and trust the process of productivity – a well-designed tool is a huge part of that experience.
Likewise, by minimizing clutter and keeping functionality as close to exactly what you need as possible, we've tried to ensure that anyone can use MeisterNote: no onboarding or tutorials required.
Although we think it's pretty awesome already, we're always looking to improve MeisterNote. If you think there's something missing, or that we can do better, we're all ears 👂👂. I'd love for you to try out the tool and tell us what you think.
Happy Writing and Happy Hunting! 🖊️️
Michael Hollauf & Till Vollmer
Co-Founders, Meister
@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!
@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
I love the product and how easy it is to create notes, share knowledge and make it actionable. If you manage a team of 10 people, you can easily save your next hire in terms of productivity.
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