Comparison of Scrapbox and Notion co-editing

I’ve been co-editing with Scrapbox for years, and recently experienced co-editing with Notion, so I’ll note what I feel… I’m not familiar with Notion compared to Scrapbox, so “there is no equivalent feature to ~” means “I don’t know, let me know if there is”.

Notion is useful for collecting a large number of items with a fixed format.

• Social Hack Day #50
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    • Twitter and Github IDs are taken from personal records in lookups.
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    • The first field is the record of the profile, or in programmers’ terms, the “type”, so it can be used to provide input assistance
    • They would use the information in this field to lookup Twitter and other information.
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    • What’s on this page is being treated as a record.
    • In addition, just by clicking on the link of the name, the linked page comes up from the right side without page transition.
      • I would like to see this feature in Scrapbox!

Unlike Scrapbox, there are no telomeres, so you can’t notice when others are editing off-screen.

Scrapbox has a prominent search bar, and there is a sense of focus on making it easier to search.

• Search Notion here
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Scrapbox is bulleted, so you can insert a line anywhere and comment on it.

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• Notion allows you to select a string and comment on it.
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    • Hackdays regular
• It’s a divide and con depending on the culture.
  • The style of commenting on the side of the Notion separates the subject from the audience.
    • Some people may feel safer that way (e.g., they can’t bear to pollute the text).
  • Scrapbox’s “insert line anywhere style” can make the whole thing difficult to read due to sentences inserted by others in the middle of your chunks of text
    • A “no monopoly on blocks of text” kind of culture.
      • Culture that says if you think it’s hard to read, then the person who thinks it’s hard to read should write a clean copy, and it’s not a good idea to restrict the freedom to write anywhere.
      • I think the members of the community need to really believe that they are each other’s equals.
        • Otherwise…
        • The “big guy” gets mad at the person who writes to him or her.
        • People who “think they are new” are hesitant to write or

Each Scrapbox page is a separate page

• Notion’s “what looks like a page” is sometimes a table record.
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  • Is there a page in here about individual events? I think so, but this is a table of events
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  • In fact, it’s right here.
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  • The nested structure of the data structure does not match the structure of information as humans think of it.

Notion’s editor’s cursor comes out line by line.

• Scrapbox is character-based

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