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Notion Vs. XTiles

Unpopular opinion: Notion is superior to XTiles.

I understand xtiles is a newer popular platform, but it doesn’t have as much data and pre-made templates as does notion! Plus I’m more of a simple girly.🙈 I’ve been playing with both today and I’ve got to say they are literally both the same besides one having more existing data than the other! If you are more for visuals, then xtiles is your to go! However, notion provides an all in one workspace which I prefer better!

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In the digital workspace realm, choosing the right productivity tool can significantly impact your efficiency and workflow. Notion, known for its comprehensive features, offers a range of templates and a robust database capability, making it highly versatile for personal and team projects. On the other hand, XTiles emphasizes a more visual approach, appealing to users who prefer a graphic-centric interface. It's essential to consider what you value most in a tool—if organization and extensive options resonate with you, Notion might be your best fit. Conversely, for those who prioritize aesthetics and simplicity, XTiles presents an attractive alternative. Additionally, as more users explore these platforms, XTiles is rapidly developing its own templates and community support to compete with Notion's established base. While both platforms are evolving, understanding their varying strengths will assist users in making informed choices. Whether you’re managing a project, planning monthly goals, or simply organizing thoughts, the right choice can streamline your productivity and enhance your overall experience.

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A comparison of xTiles and Notion interfaces. xTiles shows a digital planner with a calendar and playlist. Notion displays a home dashboard with heart-shaped widgets and a bullet tracker.

A visual comparison of xTiles and Notion workspaces. xTiles shows page tabs and block options like 'Simple note' and 'Image'. Notion displays a basic text input field for content creation.

🌸 notion vs xtiles: which should you choose?

‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ ☁️ Notion and xTiles are similar productivity workspace tools that you can customize to help you plan, organize, and track aspects of your life. Here’s a short and mini comparison of the 2 to help provide insights on which you should chose for your next digital planner setup! If you’re s

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i found an easier notion alternative 📚

hi guys! ⭐️ people are back to school now and i want to share my study planner on Xtiles📚 i use an app called “xtiles” 💻 when I used notion I got super confused but with this app they already have templates for you 😎 super easy to set up! ⭐️ study planner tabs ⭐️ 🐌 home tab (study planner)

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The image displays the xTiles daily planner interface, showcasing a customizable dashboard with sections for goal mantras, main goals, weekly habits, skills, and important notes, emphasizing its aesthetic and user-friendly design as a Notion alternative.

This image highlights the xTiles template gallery, offering various pre-filled templates like daily schedules, weekly planners, and personal planning layouts, allowing users to start from scratch or use existing designs.

The image demonstrates the tab feature in xTiles, showing how users can add different tabs for organization and freely add and resize tiles anywhere on their board for flexible customization.

My aesthetic xTiles planner, Notion alternative!

If you’re looking for a more aesthetic and flexible alternative to Notion, check out xTiles! With xTiles, you can organize everything exactly how you want, making it super personalized and visually pleasing. Whether you're creating vision boards, planning your week, or just organizing your

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This Is Better Than Notion!

I have been using xTiles for a while and I absolutely love this website!! You can completely replace Notion and it’s even easier to use! xTiles is cheaper than Notion and has sort of a bullet journaling effect that I love! Try it out (there’s a free version that is amazing) and let me know

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A computer screen displays the xTiles planning app with daily routines, to-do lists, and brain dump sections. The screen features a pink heart background and text promoting xTiles as an easy Notion alternative.

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The xTiles app displays a weekly planner template with daily to-do lists for Monday through Weekends, demonstrating customizable templates created by dragging tiles.

XTiles | Easier Alternative to Notion 👩🏻‍💻

Have you heard of xTiles? No more spending time figuring out complicated templates! I've been using Tiles for a year and it is a great way to plan and stay organized. If your new to digital planning this is beginner friendly digital planner that allows you easily create to do lists, weekly te

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A MacBook Air displays a Notion student dashboard titled 'NOTION TOUR.' with sections for student info, to-dos, a Pomodoro timer, and quick links to music, showcasing a comprehensive organizational system.

A close-up of a Notion student dashboard on a MacBook Air, highlighting 'student info!' with academic details and 'To Dos & Reminders' with tasks like 'buy fall parking permit' and 'email plant science professor'.

A close-up of a Notion student dashboard on a MacBook Air, featuring a 'Pomodoro' timer set to 25:00, options for 'Short Break' and 'Long Break', and a 'quick link to my study playlist'.

NOTION TOUR .’

i have been using notion to organize my school life (and just life) for years!! and i love it!! it’s soo customizable so i get to make it look cute which ultimately makes me want to use it and be productive. if you want a template for the student dashboard or a tour of the rest of my notion lmk 😁🫶🏼

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A MacBook Air displays the xTiles daily planner template, featuring a calendar, priorities, and to-do lists. The screen shows text 'I found a Notion alternative!' and 'So cute and easy to use!'. The laptop sits on a desk next to a 'TRUST YOUR POSE' block.

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A MacBook Air displays the xTiles 'Class Schedule' table within the 'Home Base' dashboard, showing time slots and course names for each weekday. An overlay emphasizes seamless access across devices for productivity with simple lists and schedules.

Better than Notion?? 🫣

I’ve been looking for an online component to jot down my ideas and schedule as a companion to my paper planner. I did try Notion, but it was really complicated to get into. I was so excited to find out about xTiles! xTiles is an online productivity app that allows you to streamline your schedul

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A laptop screen displays a Notion-like interface with habit trackers for health, well-being, productivity, and personal development. The text overlay reads "Notion Alternatives for Students, Personal Use," and "xTiles App" is visible on the laptop's keyboard area.

An image showcasing the xTiles app interface, titled "Where Creativity Flows." It features a "Life Weekly Planner" with sections for personal goals, cooking courses, and vacation planning, along with a weekly task list. Details about xTiles' availability and pricing are also shown.

An image displaying the Anytype app interface, titled "Keep It Private." It shows a "Course list" with academic details like course names, departments, and schedules, alongside a sidebar for personal organization. Information about Anytype's availability for all devices and free pricing is included.

Notion Alternatives for Students, Personal Use

Feeling a bit lost in the Notion chaos? No worries, friend! Check out these cool tools that can make your life easier and more fun. Let's dive into three awesome ones: ⟣ xTiles: Where Creativity Flows 🎨 Imagine a digital canvas where you can play around with words, pictures, to-do lists,

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The image highlights '1. Walling' with a description of its visual organization. Below, a tablet shows the Walling interface, illustrating micro-interactions and motion design principles with examples like card stacks, dot patterns, and toggle switches.

The image introduces '2. Xtiles' as a visual canvas for ideas. A tablet displays the Xtiles interface, featuring a weekly planner with priorities, a time schedule, and daily tasks for class notes.

Notion Alternatives which are easier to use

Hey Lemon8 fam! 🍋 Are you feeling swamped by Notion's complexity? You're not alone! Sometimes, all those options just make things more complicated than they need to be, right? 🤯 That's exactly why I've been on a quest to find the best, user-friendly alternatives that suit different

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FREE TEMPLATE 🌸 try this easy notion alternative

since u guys enjoyed my last one, I made another free xTiles template just in time for the new semester!! good luck with your studies *AD 🩷📚 #studying #xTiles #uniprep #unipreparation #schoolprep #backtoschool #backtoschoolprep #notion #notiontemplate #freetemplate

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A Notion dashboard on a tablet with a blue butterfly theme, showing current time, a quote, and navigation links to various organizational pages like Lesson Planner, Workout Tracker, and Meal Planner.

A Notion Book Tracker page on a tablet, displaying a monthly tracker table, 2024 reading goals, and a section to log books read, with an image of stacked books.

A Notion University Hub page on a tablet, featuring a class schedule for Monday to Friday with course names and times, and a section for school information with a school ID.

How I use Notion✨

From acing exams to tracking workouts, planning meals, and organizing content—Notion is my all-in-one tool for staying on top of everything! 📚💪📖🍽️📝 Book tracker📚: I use the book tracker to track how many books I have read in the month and year. I also write down my reading goals, and the list o

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A pink-themed desk setup with a computer displaying a Notion dashboard. The screen shows a 'study hub' with a lofi study mix and a 'class dashboard' in gallery view. Text overlay reads 'how to create a class dashboard in notion!'.

A close-up of a computer screen showing a Notion 'class dashboard' organized with a gallery-view database, displaying multiple course cards with details like time and location. Text overlay states 'using a gallery-view database so it looks like this!'.

A Notion interface showing a dropdown menu with various database views. 'Gallery view' is circled, indicating its selection. Below, instructions point to creating a new database on the right side of the screen.

🎀 How to create a class dashboard on notion

‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ 🎀 Step-by-step tutorial on how to create a course dashboard using a gallery-view database on notion! Swipe >> ⋆˚✿˖° Student dashboards as databases Gallery-view databases are my favorite ways to organise sub-pages on notion, especially if they’re all under the same category (i.

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A pink-themed Notion dashboard is displayed on a desktop computer, showing a 'my page' with various sections and cute elements. The desk is decorated with matching pink accessories, illustrating a basic Notion setup tutorial.

A close-up of the Notion interface shows a menu with 'Small text' and 'Full width' toggles enabled, demonstrating how to maximize workspace visibility as part of the setup tutorial.

The Notion page displays a blank title, a rabbit icon, and a pink cover image with cute characters, illustrating the step to add a title, icon, and cover image to a new Notion page.

beginner notion setup tutorial for 🌸✨

𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ 🍓 Here’s a simple and short tutorial on how to set up your first notion dashboard! If you’re new to the platform, I would suggest exploring the tools first with a basic workspace layout before diving into something more complex! To increase visibility, I set my page to full-length mode and

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🍥 best websites for notion widgets!

‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ 🍵 Notion widgets are my favorite addition to my notion workspaces, as it helps it feel more like my own which encourages me to use my trackers more consistently. Here are a few of the websites I use for free notion widgets! 🌱 ☁️ Indify.co: My favourite as you have access to many free

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A laptop screen displays the xTiles app, showing a personalized 'my 2024' dashboard with sections for a calendar, to-do list, yearly plan, vision board, and journal. The screen has a light blue and pink aesthetic, with text overlay 'easier notion alternative!'.

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A detailed view of the xTiles app on a laptop, showing a 'January 2024' calendar and a 'things to do' list with checked items like 'do groceries' and 'laundry.' The interface includes cute cartoon elements, and text overlay states 'so many tiles to choose from!'.

try this easier notion alternative! ✨

hi everyone! I wanted to introduce you guys to this easy notion alternative I found called xTiles! I'm sure you are all very familiar with notion as productivity tool: it's great, but can be super complex at times and there is a certain learning curve to it. 😵‍💫 this is why I wanted to

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Notion alternative: best back to school app 🍋

i found this super cute new back to school app called xTiles! xTiles is an easier alternative to Notion! it’s a great way to stay organize while customizing it to fit your needs/aesthetic without any boundaries 🫶 feel the experience of bullet journaling 🥰 it's free and has discounts for student

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FREE NOTION TEMPLATE WEBSITE YOU NEED TO KNOW! 📓

Are you new to notion? Don’t know how to use it properly? Want to make aesthetic concepts of your notion but don’t know how? I have great news to you. Notion is a productivity and collaboration app that allows users to organize information, documents, and tasks. With Notion, users can create and ma

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A desktop setup featuring an iMac displaying a Notion workspace with a pink aesthetic. The screen shows various Notion sections and an overlay text: '3 Notion tricks - using formulas!'. A keyboard and small decorative items are on the desk.

$A close-up of a Notion page demonstrating a formula to change text color. The formula `\color {88A5D5} \texttt {weekly Done tasks}` is shown, along with the general format `\color {hex code} \texttt {text}`. Task lists are visible in the background.$

$A Notion page showcasing a formula to add vertical or horizontal colored dividers. The formula `\color{#f08080}\rule{140px}{4px}` is displayed, with the general format `\color {hex code} \rule {length px}{width px}`. Notion gallery cards are in the background.$

🎀 3 Notion tricks!

‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ ☁️ here are three tips on how to make your notion more functional & aesthetic using ✨formulas✨!! Formulas are definitely a bit scary but they’re a lot easier than you think! Here’s a few to check out: ⋆˚✿˖° formula to change text color Formula copy & paste: \color {hex code}

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A pink-themed desk setup featuring an iMac displaying a Notion workspace with various widgets and a title 'my studio'. The image introduces a tutorial on how to get custom fonts on Notion.

A screenshot of the instafonts.io website showing an input field with 'dashboard' typed in, and multiple custom font variations of the word displayed below it, illustrating how to generate custom text.

A Notion page displaying 'my study hub' in a custom font, along with various widgets like links, weather, and a to-do list. The image demonstrates copying and pasting the custom font into Notion.

✿˖° how to use custom fonts on Notion

‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ 🌸 If you are familiar with Notion, it’s known that the platform only has 3 set fonts to choose from for your workspace, which limits the range of customisation. I found a way that you can use custom fonts easily to personalise your Notion using the website instafonts.io! It is completely

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Notion Alternative Tool To Create Digital Planner

So, I get it—Notion is cool and all, but sometimes it's just too much. I mean, who really has the time to figure out every new template just to plan out life? That's where XTiles comes in, and honestly, there's no steep learning curve. You don't need to be a Notion pro or spend

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A laptop screen displays a Notion social media calendar template, with text overlayed: 'Useful NOTION keyboard shortcuts You Didn't Know You Needed!'. The laptop is on a desk with a monitor and plant in the background.

NOTION Keyboard Shortcuts

The Power of NOTION with Simple Keyboard Shortcuts! 🚀💡 Whether you're on a Mac or Windows, these handy tips will supercharge your productivity without the fuss. Mastering these shortcuts transforms NOTION into your digital ally, seamlessly adapting to your workflow. 🤖💻 Whether you're a t

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How to plan for 2025 with xTiles !!!

Kickstart 2025 with clarity, goals, and a vision! Thanks to xTiles, mapping out my year has never been easier. From designing my dream-you weekly routines to creating a vision board and monthly strategies, it’s all about building the life I’m called to live. Let’s make this the best year ye

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A desk setup featuring a tablet displaying Google Calendar and a MacBook Air showing Notion Calendar, illustrating a comparison between the two digital planning tools.

A MacBook Air screen shows Google Calendar, highlighting its primary function for scheduling events, meetings, and tasks, as described in the accompanying text.

A MacBook Air displays Notion Calendar, emphasizing its integration with Notion for project scheduling and its ability to sync with other calendars like Apple or Google Calendar.

google calendar vs notion calendar 🗓️🎧💖

google calendar vs notion calendar 🗓️🎧💖 i’ve been using google calendar since high school, and switched over to notion in the beginning of the year! i’ve been able to play around with notion calendar a lot and wanted to share some differences between the two platforms so you can choose what’s be

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A Notion study space dashboard featuring a pink aesthetic, a calendar, navigation links, and sections for digital typography and storyboarding, displayed on a laptop screen with a pink water bottle and bunny plush.

A Notion daily study plan for October 8, 2024, detailing a schedule from morning to evening, including study sessions, classes, and breaks, alongside a to-do list and a Spotify widget.

A Notion page showcasing various note-taking methods with cartoon icons (Cornell, Mindmap, Outline) and a list of lecture notes for different subjects like Calculus and British Literature, dated October 8, 2024.

Study Notion Template

#notestemplate #notion template #aestheticnotion

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A desktop monitor displays the xTiles app, showing a planner with a calendar, daily schedule, priorities, and a shopping list. Text overlays promote xTiles as an easier and cheaper Notion alternative.

A close-up of the xTiles app interface, featuring a daily planner and vision board. Text highlights xTiles as a free, easy-to-use solution for task management, planning, and collaboration.

A collage of xTiles app screenshots, showcasing a daily planner for organizing, a book tracker for reading, and a vision board for creative inspiration, demonstrating its versatility.

If Notion feels like a hassle, xTiles is your app!

If you’re like me and have never been able to fully get into Notion because it just feels too overwhelming & pricey, the xTiles app is the perfect alternative! 📝 xTiles is a FREE easy-to-use app and solution for task management & planning, collaborations, and building knowledge bases. Us

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🍓 Notion setup inspo for students! 📚

‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ Some inspo to set up your class dashnboard/academia hub for 2024! 📚 This is my pink coquette student dashboard. In the centre (most accessible region) I have my class dashboard I created using a gallery database. Each page has a section for the specific class schedule, syllabus, assignme

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Notion but easier

Xtiles is the new notion! I don’t know about you but sometimes notion can be super overwhelming and confusing. So many options 😭 Xtiles is so simple and easy to use, with all the features you need and nothing you dont. You can customize your board with fun colors, insert images, use emo

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Notion Tour 📚⚡️

i can do a more in depth tour of my notion and how it is set up! i always look for free templates through notion which saves more time and i can customize on my own. lmk if you have any q’s 💞 #notionstudent #notionforstudents #notionforschool #planningforcollege #notiontour #backtosc

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my notion tour! (for college students) ✨🎀🌸🧚‍♀️

a little tour of what my notion has been looking like! i’ve seen so many people using this and i’ve never been able to figure it out until I realized they have an ai tool to map out your dashboards. it’s been such a helpful tool and i’ve loved making it super cute and girly. ✨🌸🎀🧚‍♀️🩷 #lemon8partn

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pov: notion is too complicated for you ✨

the best alternative to notion? 👀 app: Xtiles ✨ if you’ve ever felt stuck when using notion, this app is for you!! has the same functions as notion, but makes it easier for you - and also includes tons of templates for whatever your plans are. ✔️ create to-do lists ✔️ easily cus

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A laptop displays the xtiles app interface, featuring a pink-themed dashboard with urgent tasks, reminders, and content blocks. The screen shows 'THE BEST NOTION ALTERNATIVE' overlay, and the keyboard has pink keycaps.

A laptop screen displays the xtiles calendar view for August 2024, showing scheduled tasks like 'make thumbnail' and 'upload yt video'. Overlays emphasize creating calendars, tracking tasks, organizing events, and its user-friendly, visually appealing interface.

the easiest notion alternative! 💭✨

hi friends! i’ve struggled with figuring out notion for a while now, as it’s just too confusing for me! i have tried time and time again to use notion for my content creation, but i just found it was too complex and it was hard to get it set up to be aesthetically pleasing! i finally gave up, but

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A laptop screen displays a Notion dashboard featuring a personalized planner with sections like 'Quick Links,' 'Your Planners,' and 'Today,' using colored text and aesthetic layouts. Decorative figures are visible on the desk behind the laptop.

$A tutorial image showing how to color Notion titles. It displays the formula `\color{text color code}{text}` and a color picker with a pink hue selected, indicating the HEX code #dec1c9.$

$A tutorial image demonstrating the final steps to color Notion titles. It shows pasting the HEX code into the formula `\color{dec1c9}{Calendar}` and selecting 'mark as equation,' resulting in a pink 'Calendar' title.$