ToolCraft conventionFoundational
Notion
Flexible documents and databases, used by many teams as a lightweight research repository.
Definition
A workspace combining documents, wikis and databases. Its flexibility makes it a common home for research notes, design decisions and specifications in smaller teams.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
Good for
- Design documentation
- Lightweight research repositories
- Decision records
Watch out for
Flexibility becomes sprawl without structure. Search degrades as volume grows.
Continue from here
Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Often used with
These usually appear in the same screen or the same decision.
- Design System DocumentationDesign system
- Research SynthesisResearch method
- Product SpecificationTemplate
Nearby in the Atlas
Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.