Card #1011 · Notion Integration Gallery
Notion desktop app and databases suffer from significant lag and slowness
The Notion desktop application feels bloated and slow, especially when handling databases with several hundred rows. Users find the performance unbearable compared to local-first alternatives like Obsidian, leading some to migrate platforms.
Pain score
0.58/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.57distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency0.97freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.50upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
I find Notion too slow for any serious work.
The lag got unbearable once my database passed a few hundred rows.
Obsidian vaults of 10x the complexity of our Notion workspace achieve sub 1/30 sec performance for these types of tasks.
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