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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!

#notion #xtiles

2024/8/20 Edited to

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.

A pink-themed desk setup features a computer displaying a Notion dashboard with a date and heart icons, surrounded by cute decorations. Text overlay asks 'Notion vs xTiles Which productivity tool should you use?'

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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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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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.

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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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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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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 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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Organize your university life with Notion 👇

Is there anything Notion can’t do? 💭 I am using Notion for literally everything, but the most important function probably is for university! From keeping everything in place and organized to seeing all your tasks in a synchronized calendar - that is actually just the beginning. 💖 I tried to

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Beginner tutorial for a daily planner on Notion 📝☀

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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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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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How?? Read⬇️⬇️✨#notion

Notion AI is a writing assistant that can help you write, brainstorm, edit, summarize, and more. If you are a student this is for you! Consider Notion AI your partner. You can use Notion AI Writer and Autofill to create new content, draft writing, edit existing content, and generate additional cont

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This image demonstrates organizing notes using Notion's 3-column layout. It shows the command '/3 Columns' and how definitions for subjects like Quantum Mechanics and Cryptocurrency are neatly arranged into three distinct columns.

How to Organize your Mind Using Notion

Struggle to Focus because you are trying to remember things in your Head? Listing them out in paper is a decent method to Organize this, but this method takes a lot of time that you can save Using Notion. So here’s how you can Work Smarter and Organize your Mind more Efficiently Using Notion. 📓

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A tablet displays a productivity app's school schedule with tasks, due dates, and locations, alongside a laptop and stationery, illustrating how to manage multiple subjects and organize schoolwork efficiently.

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Notion alternative? Try ClickUp! 👩🏻‍💻

ClickUp is an all-in-one productivity tool built for teams of all types across any industry. You can plan, track, and collaborate on any project, build the perfect workflow for you and your team, create marketing campaigns, manage development sprints, and more all in one platform! Needless

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5 things I wish I knew a Notion Beginner🫶

Notion may seem like a labyrinth at first, but fear not—I've been through the maze and back! 🌟 Here's a treasure trove of wisdom I wish I had as a Notion novice: 🍊 Start Simple: Don't rush into complexity. Focus on the basics, like navigating and essential functions. 🍊 Daily Disco

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NOTION PAGE IDEAS✨📖

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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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How I use notion for reading 2 | My Reading Garden

Hi! A couple of days ago, I created a new Notion template to plan and organize the things I need to do and love to do! This time, I chose a pixel-style theme, which is more refreshing and eye-friendly. 🔗 Template:https://tangible-octagon-692.notion.site/Pixel-Garden-Library-Reading-Journaling-d

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websites to make your notion setup prettier ✨

🍥 4 websites I always use to make my notion setup pretty 𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅ #notion #notionapp #notiontemplate #productivity #aesthetic

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A MacBook Air on a wooden desk displays a Notion Academic Dashboard with various sections and a digital clock, illustrating how to get organized with Notion as a student.

A MacBook Air on a wooden desk shows a Notion Weekly Plan page with study tasks listed, demonstrating how to plan weekly study tasks.

A MacBook Air on a wooden desk displays a Notion Semester Dashboard with a schedule and academic goals, illustrating how to track classes and assignments.

How to be an organised student with Notion 💻📚

Notion is an amazing free app and website for planning and getting organized as a student. It has been my greatest productivity tool and I really recommend giving it a try! Here’s how you can use Notion for being more organized this semester: 1. Plan your weeks, set weekly study tasks and not

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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 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: 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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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.

A close-up of the xTiles app shows a 'TODAY' section with tasks like 'organize desk' and 'meal prep,' alongside 'TODAY'S GOALS' and 'BRAIN DUMP' sections, highlighting simple task creation.

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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how to plan a year in Notion ✨

‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ 🍡 can you believe it’s already November ?!? As we approach the end of the year ⛄️, it’s never too early to start planning for what’s next! Here’s a simple tutorial on how to plan for each month of a year on Notion using a gallery database! I usually associate planning months with goal

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This is How I Plan My Lemon8 Content On Notion

How To Plan Your Social Media Content Using Notion 😎 Lemon8 Social Media Content Calendar Inspo! ✨🍋 #lemon8creator #notiontips #notion #notiontemplate #notionhacks #contentcalendar #notionforbeginners

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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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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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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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A laptop screen displays a Notion dashboard with sections for Planner, Productivity, Lifestyle, and Wellness. A red banner reads "NOTION DASHBOARD SETUP." The screen shows a date "07 15 MONDAY" and options for tablet and phone dashboards. Decorative hearts and stars are visible.

A laptop screen shows a Notion dashboard. A red banner highlights features: "Daily To-Do List," "Goal Tracker," and "Project Boards." The dashboard includes options for Tablet Dashboard, Phone Dashboard, and Planner. Decorative elements like hearts and stars are present.

A laptop screen displays a Notion dashboard with sections like Planner, Productivity, and Lifestyle. A red banner asks, "What's your favorite feature in Notion? Let me know below!" The screen shows the date "07 15 MONDAY" and dashboard options. Decorative hearts and stars are visible.

Notion Dashboard Setup❤️💻✨

✨ My Ultimate Notion Dashboard Setup ✨ Here’s how I transformed my Notion into a hub of productivity and aesthetics! 💻🌸 I’ve created a clean, functional layout that helps me stay on top of tasks, track habits, and plan my day. 🗓️ Bonus: It’s fully customizable to match my vibe! 🌈💡 #digitalplan

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How I Stay Organized With Notion 🎀🫶🏻

#organization #notion #healthylifestyle2024 #dayinmylife #productivity #notiontemplate #notiontips #weeklyreset #routine #thatgirl

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A pink-themed desk setup featuring an iMac displaying a Notion workspace with various aesthetic items. The image has text overlays 'SWIPE TO VIEW' and 'Where to find free Notion templates'.

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🌸 where to get free notion templates pt 2

‧°𐐪♡𐑂°‧₊ 🍡 Here are some more recommendations of where you can find free notion templates! These templates, which range from simple and beginner friendly to more advanced, are perfect for using notion whether you’re just getting started or want to learn of more advanced ways to best utilise and a

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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.

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

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