Does anyone actually like Notion? My current job uses it for all our documentation and I hate it. The organization is a mess, the search isn't great, and the UI sucks.

It's like a massive step backwards from tools like Confluence. I've had to use it for over three years and I still hate it.

I hate everything regarding content management, so including docs. So I made a server doing:
- render jinja
- render markdown within jinja
- render syntax highlighting within markdown
- render python between {% py3 %} tags (so you can do advanced customization with it IF needed.). It works like php, print() / stdout will go to the right place in your body. You can mix the tag with any other.
- no reload for update required.

Im building a site with it right now, I'm reconstructing molodetz.nl with source code browsing. That's to the gitea api, I will be using my app to display / render and gitea is in charge of the content / being the backend. The optional inline python is so cool, insane comfortable. Just stole the best thing of php. Woei.

I was so confused by your rant... Until I reread and noticed, you are not ranting about Norton.

using it for documentation is some stupid idea

it's slow

I like obsidian

Never tried it, but seen people using it and sometimes wondered "am I missing out?" - glad to hear I'm not.

I see you mention Confluence as a better option. Didn't expect that, thought it was looked down on. My org used it around 2015-2017 and I have memories of formatting getting in the way - like code having incorrect quote-chars. (Felt like it didn't use proper markdown..but maybe it was just my org who used it incorrectly)

We moved to Github wikis/readmes for code docs, and GoogleDrive suite for non technical stuff.

Now most Github wikis with code docs are nice and tidy markdown.

But I do miss the days when ALL the tech and semi-tech documentation was in one place in Confluence.

The shift lead to a strict separation of devs (with github accounts) and non-devs (like analytics people) and now analytics people write code snippets in god damn GoogleDocs 🤧