Notion Forces AI Search Over Notes, Missing Content That Clearly Exists
Notion users trying to search their notes are funneled into an AI-only search mode that frequently fails to surface content that plainly exists, while the separate quick-notes feature hangs indefinitely. The degraded search experience is driving at least one long-time user back to Evernote.
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