For recovering Notion users
You need the version that doesn't ask you to redo it every six months. Notom is the tool you reach for when you've stopped pretending Notion is going to become the thing.
Step one: discover Notion. Spend the first weekend designing a workspace that's going to change your life. Step two: use it for six weeks. Step three: realise the capture friction is killing you. Step four: most quick captures start going to Apple Notes instead. Step five: feel guilty. Step six: tell yourself you'll "redo your Notion properly" next Sunday. Repeat every six months for three years.
The setup isn't the problem. The fact that you keep needing to do the setup is the problem. Notion's flexibility is structurally a tax on capture speed, and capture speed is the load-bearing piece for a notes tool.
Notion gives you a database. So you build the CRM. The OKR tracker. The reading log. The habit dashboard. The recipe library. None of which you'd have built if the tool hadn't suggested it. Each one becomes another half-maintained Notion page that you feel guilty about.
Notom has notes and to-dos. No databases. No templates. No / menu with thirty-seven block types. You can't redesign your workspace because there isn't a workspace to design. The whole product is "type the thing, save the thing, see the to-dos come out".
In Notion you built a Tasks database. You stopped feeding it three months in. The actions you took on are scattered across dozens of meeting pages, retrospective pages, project pages. Buried in the body text of notes you forgot to re-read.
In Notom: type the meeting note, the to-dos appear in your Actions tab automatically, each linked back to the note. There's no Tasks database to forget to feed. The extraction is the default, not a workflow you have to maintain.
You don't have to delete your Notion. If your team uses it for shared docs and wikis, leave it. The pages you actually use can keep doing their job.
What changes is where the capture goes. The quick thought, the meeting debrief, the to-do you'd otherwise lose. Those go to Notom. The polished shared doc still goes to Notion. The personal layer and the team layer aren't the same thing, and shouldn't be in the same tool.
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“Three Notion redesigns over two years and I still couldn't get it to fit. Notom doesn't fit either. It just doesn't ask me to make it fit.”
“I left my Notion alone. It's an archive now. Capture goes here. I have no urge to redesign anything.”
FAQ
You probably know. Signs include: a Notion workspace with 47 pages and you've opened three of them this year. A perpetually half-finished CRM you built one Sunday. The phrase "I just need to redo my Notion setup" appearing in your head every six months. A guilty admission that most of your actual notes have migrated to Apple Notes because it's faster.
Notom has no direct Notion importer. The honest truth: most of what's in your Notion workspace is not load-bearing, and the cleanest thing is to leave it where it is as archive and start fresh in Notom for new captures. The pages you actually use can be cross-referenced. Notom doesn't try to be Notion.
Keep them. Notom is not a Notion replacement for team wikis or shared docs. It's a personal capture layer. Your team's Notion can stay; Notom is the layer underneath where your own commitments, follow-ups and half-thoughts live before they make it (or don't) into the team space.
Because you've said this before. The pattern isn't "this time I'll design it right". It's that Notion's flexibility is structurally a tax on capture speed. The tool that wins for you is the one that doesn't require you to design it at all.
No. AI inference runs only when you save a note, only against our AI provider. Your notes are not sold, mined, or used to train models. Each AI-extracted action stays linked to the note it came from so you can always see why it appeared.
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