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.
https://gyazo.com/b3177063df3798512bb6329f861ed91a
Twitter and Github IDs are taken from personal records in lookups.
https://gyazo.com/ffd083b0cecbd1616296a0ab49518dd5
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.
https://gyazo.com/b70af155c20bf86cf1fd11a3afc829a8
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
https://gyazo.com/8fdffb90c43b6de631d6aa892e62deb9
Scrapbox is bulleted, so you can insert a line anywhere and comment on it.
https://gyazo.com/12acfabff2641dc1670d26619ecd1c3a
Notion allows you to select a string and comment on it.
https://gyazo.com/0474c3c39366ca40e1d00613523a6e97
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.
https://gyazo.com/453b174d01a45c080ca1441b7754bd67
Is there a page in here about individual events? I think so, but this is a table of events
https://gyazo.com/17aff6b6c8833276e85d38f7541d31e3
In fact, it's right here.
https://gyazo.com/0d2bd9a6c64a20afc7bc1d3507d7e7f4
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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