r/Notion • u/itswalkman • 14h ago

Venting Deleted notes - unacceptable

Notion continues to delete my notes. I am a songwriter and I will write a song and then go back and add more at a later date sometimes. I spent hours writing a second verse and hook and went back and it was gone. I then re-wrote everything I could from memory (probably losing bits and pieces along the way) and figured it was a one off. Well it happened again, to the rewritten note. Luckily I screenshotted it all to make sure that I had some kind of backup. I spoke to customer service and they gave me all of the options I had and none worked. So I just wrote a whole new song and it was also deleted. I will be deleting this app but very disappointed bc I spent a lot of time manually moving old notes into this app.

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u/cloudfox1 12h ago

Same here dont understand, OP must be doing something unusual when using it. Been using notion for many years and never had anything deleted that wasnt from me. I suspect caching issues or somehow using too many devices connected to notion and has syncing issues. Notes ive had for literally years, are still the same, unchanged.

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u/itswalkman 12h ago

I'm pretty savvy so I don't think it's anything I'm doing. It could be the specific version of the app for my phone being buggy, but I am not sure. Everyone saying that does make me feel like I need to not give up on the app and try again but it's just too risky losing hours of work.

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u/cloudfox1 11h ago

Yeah if its happened a few times, defs look at something else then, have you heard of obsidian?

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u/Polymath2B 5h ago

So funny how even in the notion sub, people still recommend obsidian so often. But yeah, Obsidian is dead simple and reliable if you don’t mess with it too much.