Why I’m Still Using Notion Even Though It Betrayed Me

I love Notion.
And by “love,” I mean:
I’ve spent 400+ hours inside it, built a personal CRM I never updated,
and accidentally created a project plan that required three scrolls to reach the actual plan.

I keep using it because I want it to work.
But at some point, it stopped being a workspace -
and started becoming a scrapbook of good intentions.

The betrayal

It wasn’t one big moment.
It was a slow, creeping realization:

• Half our team didn’t know where anything lived
• The “Tasks” page was a graveyard of abandoned checkboxes
• Comments were buried in toggles like digital time capsules
• We made a content calendar… and forgot it existed
• I once wrote an entire product spec that got lost because someone renamed the page to “⚙️ stuff”

It’s not just Notion

I’ve seen the same thing happen in Trello. In Linear. In Jira.

These tools are powerful - until they’re not.
Until the structure breaks.
Until no one updates the status column.
Until “In Progress” becomes a place tasks go to die.

At some point, you're no longer organizing work.
You're just maintaining the illusion of productivity.

Why I’m still using it (for now)

Because it’s easy.
Because switching feels worse.
Because I don’t hate the tool - I just hate how chaotic our usage of it became.

The betrayal wasn’t the app.
It was the gap between what we needed… and what we hacked together.

One day I’ll migrate.
Maybe even build something.
But for now, I’ll keep dragging tasks around like I believe in them.

And if I disappear, check the toggle labeled:
🌪️ chaos workspace (do not open).