Lotus Notes, if you look past it having one of the ugliest UIs ever made, was a pretty neat tool. When I look at a tool like Notion, I see it as what Notes should have become.
I worked in a Notes/Domino shop pre-2000, and after some "geniuses" in the company read a Gartner report that SAAS was going to be a thing within a couple of years, my company blew a lot of resources to hack together a multi-tenant project collaboration app using Domino that was delivered to web browsers.
Of course, it didn't go anywhere, because it took many more years before SAAS eventually became mainstream. It's funny looking back at what we made around 98-99, because JS on the browser was far less mature than what it is today.
I worked in a Notes/Domino shop pre-2000, and after some "geniuses" in the company read a Gartner report that SAAS was going to be a thing within a couple of years, my company blew a lot of resources to hack together a multi-tenant project collaboration app using Domino that was delivered to web browsers.
Of course, it didn't go anywhere, because it took many more years before SAAS eventually became mainstream. It's funny looking back at what we made around 98-99, because JS on the browser was far less mature than what it is today.