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Why we built Notion – About

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A story of tools, the future of work, and how we want to blend your workflow into an all-in-one workspace.

A story of tools and the future of work Hi there! If you’re reading this, you’re probably like me—spending most of your days in your office, in front of a computer. You probably have fifteen tabs open: one for email, one for Slack, one for Google Docs, and on, and on…But have you ever thought about where these “work tools” came from? Or why there are so many of them?To answer these questions, and to explain why we created Notion, we have to travel back in time. As people flooded to factories during the Industrial Revolution, many tools were invented to ease the management…

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