Notion Search Is Broken: No Partial Matching, Inconsistent and Slow
Notion users find the search feature nearly unusable due to the lack of partial word matching, inconsistent results across databases, and slow performance. This fundamental usability gap makes knowledge retrieval unreliable in a tool built around documentation.
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