Hello everyone

My student discount of Notion AI addon (which later turned into Business plan) is ending soon. I'll probably be paying the full price soon for a new subscription, since it has been super helpful and useful for me to understand everything and explain and point to me where i went wrong so...

If anyone knows/or tried which subscription has better/higher usage I'd be very thankful 🙏🙏🙏

Since support refuses to escalate my ticket to a billing manager, I am not giving up.

My workspace was strictly locked and suspended during the unpaid period, yet Notion charged me $24 for it retroactively today and refuses a same-day refund. They are literally making me pay for a period when the service wasn't even provided.

I am a broke user fighting for a fair review. I will be updating this specific Reddit thread every single day with the current status until a real billing manager manually looks at my logs.

Day 1: Still no refund, workspace downgraded to Free, waiting for a human response.

I'm a freelancer and I kept losing track of who still owed me money. So I added a "Next step" formula to my invoices database in Notion, and now each invoice tells me what to do.

How it works:

1. Days overdue: only counts invoices with status "Sent". Drafts never show as late.

2. Next step: based on how late the invoice is, it shows one of these:

- Send invoice (still a draft)

- Wait (not due yet)

- Friendly reminder (1+ days late)

- Second reminder (7+ days late)

- Final notice (14+ days late)

1. Last reminder date: after I send a reminder, I set it to today. The formula waits 5 days before asking me to send another one, so I don't spam clients.

2. On the Clients database, a rollup shows how much each client owes me and if they usually pay late.

Now I just open one filtered view each morning ("Next step" is not empty) and send what it says. Takes 2 minutes.

Happy to share the exact formula if anyone wants it. How do you track late payments?

Hello, I'm Aarav, a 16 year old open source developer. For the past few months I've been building Morrow, a desktop app for notes, databases and ideas, and today I'm releasing it!

I wanted one app that could do everything a modern workspace does, without an account, a subscription, ads, AI or a cloud server. So I made it.

Your notes are yours. Every page is a plain Markdown file in a folder you pick. You can open them in any editor, back them up however you like, and keep them forever, even if you stop using Morrow. Nothing you write is ever sent anywhere. There is no telemetry and no login, and it works with the internet unplugged.

Real databases, offline. Any page can be a database with board, table, calendar, list and gallery views, plus filters, sorting, grouping, relations between pages and formulas. You can even drop a live database right in the middle of a page.

Everything is built in, with nothing to install or configure. There are wiki links with backlinks, a graph of how your notes connect, tags, daily notes, a task list that gathers every checkbox from every page, templates, and a quick capture shortcut that works from any app. You also get an infinite canvas with cards, arrows and freehand drawing, flashcards with spaced repetition, diagrams from text, maths, code highlighting, tabs, and audio, video and PDF files that play right on the page.

Private by design. You can lock any page with a password (AES 256 on disk), keep version history of every page, and sync between your own computers over your own network with no server in between. As an obsidian user by heart, this was pretty imp for me.

Make it yours with light and dark themes, accent colours, page icons and covers, and your own CSS if you want to restyle anything.

Getting your stuff in and out is easy too. Import Markdown folders, and Markdown and CSV exports from other note apps. Export any page as Markdown or PDF, or publish pages as a static website.

It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and it's free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.

A heads up: the builds aren't code signed yet, so Windows and macOS will show a warning the first time you open it. That's normal for new open source apps, and I'm working on signing.

Download it here: https://github.com/Aarav2709/Morrow/releases/latest

The code is here: https://github.com/Aarav2709/Morrow

If you like it, please star the repo <3 It motivates me to work hard on it, and help me get more contributors so they can help me with the stuff I can't do myself.

Hey everyone, I have amazing news!

After being strictly denied twice by the first-line support agent (Brian), I followed your advice, demanded a manual review, and escalated the ticket to the management team.

Just now, Shahan from the Billing Escalations team took over my case and authorized a full $24.00 refund back to my card as a one-time exception! The official Stripe receipts have already hit my email inbox.

Lesson learned: If you get auto-charged on the same day for a historically frozen/locked account, do not accept the automated copy-paste rejections. Ask for an escalation immediately.

Thank you so much to everyone who supported me, upvoted my previous thread, and helped me stand my ground. You guys are awesome! 🤜🤛

I want to know how to force that for several of my clients!

Back in school at 38 for a cybersecurity cert while working IT support. My brain is full of ticket queues and now also subnetting. I've been using a simple Notion database to track modules, lab hours, and exam dates, but I feel like I'm barely scratching the surface.

Hello all!

I am a user of Notion for a long time, but do not use it to its full potential I think. I am on the free plan, and thinking of upgrading.

My problem mainly is that I want you use Notion as a tool that manages almost everything (habits, trackers, projects, learning, notes) but It’s kinda messy.

I would like advice on how to handle most of that stuff in Notion and eliminate the other apps from my workflow.

How do you manage Notion? Is there any point in going a plan higher?

Thanks!

Say a dishwasher has been repaired twice, but also needs a new service appointment. Would you keep all three entries in one database, or separate the completed service history from the task to book the next visit?

Separate databases seem cleaner for keeping the dates and costs intact. One database seems easier to capture into, especially on a phone.

For anyone keeping home records in Notion, what has held up better once you've had a few years of entries? Any annoying edge cases with recurring maintenance or replacing an item?

my first freelance crm in notion had like 25 properties and i stopped updating it after two weeks. this is the stripped down version that actually stuck, in case it helps anyone setting one up.

3 databases, all related to each other:

• clients: name, status, email, source (referral, cold, etc), next follow up (date)
• projects: name, relation to client, status, quoted amount (number), due date
• touchpoints: date, relation to client, type (call, email, meeting), one line note

status on clients uses the status property with just: lead, talking, active, past. i tried 7 stages before and it was pointless, i never knew if something was "proposal sent" or "negotiating".

the views that do the actual work:

• clients board grouped by status. drag cards when things change, thats it
• a "follow up" table view filtered to next follow up is on or before today. this is the one i open every morning
• projects table filtered to status is not done, sorted by due date

rollup on clients pulling the sum of quoted amount from related projects. gives you a rough "how much has this client been worth" number without a separate finance setup. (example only, if you track invoices separately just roll up from that instead)

the habit part: every time i send an email or have a call i add a touchpoint and bump the next follow up date. takes 20 seconds. if i skip that step the whole thing rots, so i keep a touchpoint button/template ready with the date prefilled.

things i cut that i dont miss: lead score, tags for industry, separate contacts db for companies with multiple people (just put them in the note until it actually becomes a problem).

curious what other freelancers here track that i'm missing. do you keep invoices in the same workspace or in a separate tool?

I have accumulated quite a few productivity tools over time. One for tasks, one for notes, one for calendars, reminders on my phone, and various AI tools I occasionally remember to use.

The problem is that managing all of them starts feeling like another project.

For a week, I tried simplifying everything and focusing on just my calendar, a basic task list, and a few reminders. I was less distracted, although I did miss having some things automated.

Now I'm wondering whether the answer is fewer tools or one assistant that helps connect everything.

How many productivity tools do you actually use daily? Have you found a setup that stays useful without becoming too complicated?