Flipnotes vs Notion
Notion is a fine place to build a team wiki. But when you only want to jot a line on your phone, it asks you to think about pages first. Flipnotes just opens on the writing bar.
- To us, Notion feels like a spreadsheet when you want to jot a line.
- Pages, blocks, properties: a lot to think about for one note.
- Flipnotes opens on the writing bar. Type, tap Save, done.
- Dates in a note go in your agenda on their own.
A wiki and a notebook
Notion is built from pages, blocks and databases. A database is a collection of pages, and each page can have properties like a date or a status. If your team keeps a wiki or a project tracker, it does that well.
To us, it feels like building a spreadsheet when all you wanted was to write a line on your phone. You start thinking about where the note lives before it exists. Flipnotes opens on the writing bar, and after you save, the note files itself.
Writing down one quick note
One typed note on your phone, from opening the app to having it in a place you can find.
Notion
- 1Open the app
- 2Tap the new page icon
- 3Give it a title and type
- 4Move it to another page, or add properties, if you want it sorted
Flipnotes
- 1Open the app. The writing bar is already there
- 2Type
- 3Tap Save
The count is close. The difference is what comes after: in Notion the sorting is your job, in Flipnotes you never pick a page or a database.
Open the app and start typing
Flipnotes opens on today's page with the writing bar at the bottom. Type and tap Save. There is nothing to name and nowhere to put it.
The same bar has a mic, a camera and a pin for your location.
Talk or take a picture
Tap the mic and say what you want to remember. Flipnotes writes it out as you speak and keeps the recording.
The camera takes a photo in two taps. You can add where you are to any note with the pin.
More about voice notes
Write a date and it lands in your agenda
Write "Dentist with Mia on Thursday at 3pm" and it shows up in your agenda on Thursday. You don't make a calendar entry.
You can look at the agenda as a list or as a week, month or year calendar.
More about the agenda
Ask for it in your own words
Type or say "When am I seeing the dentist?" Your notebook reads your notes and answers.
Or tap Roll the dice and read a random note from the past.
More about Ask your notebook
No pages to set up, no database to build
Flipnotes puts each note in one or more of over thirty categories, like Dates & Appointments, Health and People. You don't create them.
If a note has a date in it, it goes in your agenda too.
"Dentist with Mia on Thursday at 3pm"
Goes intoDates & AppointmentsHealthPeopleIn your agenda on Thursday at 3 PM.
"Pay the car insurance by the 30th"
Goes intoDates & AppointmentsIn your agenda on the 30th.
"Expert witness for Delgado: Dr Hanna Weiss, 0171 555 0192"
Goes intoContact InfoPhone NumbersPeople
Pro, if you use it all day
Everything on this page comes with every plan. Pro just gives you more room.
- Voice notes up to 5 minutes long (2 minutes on Personal)
- 5,000 photos a year (2,000 on Personal)
- 20 GB of storage (4 GB on Personal)
- Up to 2,000 questions a month to your notebook (280 on Personal)
Common questions
Is Flipnotes a replacement for Notion?
Not for team wikis or databases, which is what Notion does well. Flipnotes is for your own notes: things you type, say or photograph, kept in order for you without the spreadsheet feel.
Can I move my Notion notes over?
You can copy the notes you want into Flipnotes. New notes are filed for you as you save them.
Does Flipnotes have databases or templates?
No. You write a note and Flipnotes sorts it into categories, and puts dates in your agenda.
Does it work on iPhone and Android?
Yes, and on your computer too: just open flipnotes.life in your browser. Your notes are the same everywhere.
Can I try it first?
Yes, your first month is free. After that you pick a plan.
Try one note
Install Flipnotes, open it and write something down. Notice how little you had to decide.
Flipnotes is also for
- Flipnotes for real estate agentsPhotos of every property, pinned on a map, sorted for you.
- Flipnotes for house huntingKeep every house you see apart, with its photos and its place on the map.
- Flipnotes for lawyersDictate after a meeting and ask your notebook about any client.
- Flipnotes for busy peopleType one line and it's in your calendar.
- Flipnotes for journalingSay what's on your mind and flip back through your days.
Compare Flipnotes with other apps
- Flipnotes vs Google KeepSave anything in one or two taps, and get it sorted, dated and on a map.
- Flipnotes vs Apple NotesThe same quick notes, sorted for you, on iPhone, Android and any computer.
- Flipnotes vs TodoistYour tasks with your notes, an agenda, My day and a DONE stamp.
- Flipnotes vs EvernoteNo notebooks or tags to manage: write it down and it's filed.
- Flipnotes vs ObsidianOpen it and write. No vault, links or plugins to set up first.
- Flipnotes vs Apple Notes, Evernote and OneNoteHow many steps it takes to save a note in each, side by side.
- Flipnotes vs Google Calendar and OutlookAdding an appointment: one line in Flipnotes, a form in a calendar app.