The legless avatars of Mesh stole the social media buzz around Microsoft’s latest round of news (mostly coming out of Ignite). However, there was a LOT of changes to existing tools and non-Mesh stuff.
Windows Weekly, as always, has done a good job of pulling things together from different press releases, blog posts, presentations, etc. Some thoughts…
Loop
One thing discussed on Windows Weekly was Loop, a new tool which the WW hosts compared to Notion. Elsewhere it has been compared to Google Wave and other tools (see the comments on this article for how this tool seems to cut across existing tools).
Well I hadn’t used Notion before so I thought I would give it a try (they have 200k followers on Twitter so I am clearly late to the party).
Notion
Free for individual use (and free trials for team use) you can access Notion here.
50+ tutorials are on the Notion YouTube channel for getting startedl.
I would say that the, individual use, Notion is really a kind of personal Wiki but with various templates and other functionality to plug in. In this regard it is likely great for small teams (or even individual freelancers) to track their work. Indeed they have a page on the website regarding Wiki use. That said I have been burned with using Wiki and other tools (inc. Google Wave) in the past that have closed and needed me to transfer content elsewhere so I would understand why people would prefer to do similar activities via MS Teams (perhaps using OneNote over the limited Teams wiki).
An email from Notion suggested “Notion can feel overwhelming at first” – and I think that is a fair acknowledgment from them.
Whose Education Is It Anyway? 
More on Notion … I’ve clearly been out of the loop on its use. I recently joined a new L&D Community (via LinkedIN group) and they use Notion as a community site (plus Slack for communications).