Founders Toolkit

Notion

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Free for personal, Plus from $10/mo

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All-in-one workspace that replaces your docs, wiki, project tracker, and half your other tools

Notion replaces your note app, your wiki, your project tracker, and your spreadsheet, or at least it tries to. The flexibility is both its strength and its trap. You can build a custom CRM, a content calendar, a knowledge base, and a task board all in one workspace. You can also spend three days tweaking your setup instead of doing actual work.

For solo founders, the free personal plan covers everything you need. The risk is not the price; it is the time sink. Start with a simple template (there are thousands), resist the urge to over-engineer, and Notion becomes genuinely useful. Over-engineer it, and it becomes a project of its own.

Best for Solo founders who keep notes, docs, a wiki and project tracking in one workspace

Plans

PlanPriceIncludes
Free€05 MB uploads, 7-day page history, 10 guests
Plus€9.50/mo per member5 GB uploads, 30-day page history, 5 notion.site domains
Business€19.50/mo per member90-day page history, 5 GB uploads

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Pros

  • Absurdly flexible: people run entire businesses from Notion databases
  • Free personal plan has no meaningful limits for solo use
  • Templates for everything: CRMs, content calendars, habit trackers, project boards

Cons

  • Easy to spend more time organizing Notion than doing actual work
  • Can feel slow, especially with large databases
  • Offline mode exists but is unreliable

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