Notion Launched Offline Mode

Notion launched the much-awaited Notion feature: Offline mode. It is the most requested and anticipated feature for over five years.

Notion users have been eagerly waiting for this feature for years, and it’s finally coming. Today, Notion launched this feature and is gradually releasing it to all Notion users. It is available on mobile and desktop apps.

Notion’s offline mode feature will allow you to access your docs offline when you don’t have an internet connection or Wifi nearby.

They have to come up with new technology and build a new team for just the offline mode. One of their engineers got her PhD paper published about how to get offline mode with Notion’s block structure.

This feature is also teased on Notion’s annual conference, “Make with Notion” event.

In the upcoming weeks, Notion will gradually roll out this feature to all users, and it will work on mobile and desktop apps, allowing you to work offline on pages and sub-pages.

Why did it take so much time (5 years) to build just one feature?

Notion is unique in a way. Notion is built with blocks. When you create a page and write or do something there, it is just a collection of blocks on one page.

Unlike Apple Notes, which is private and stored on the device, Notion is collaborative, and it syncs across workspaces with thousands of people.

They have invented something that didn’t exist before and are gradually rolling out to 100M plus users.

The hardest part of this feature is resolving conflicts when multiple people edit one doc offline.

Notion databases are another headache; each cell can link to multiple pages, and that’s hard to capture, so they are just allowing 50 rows per database by default in v1 (version 1).

So when you don’t have wifi, you just can’t avoid work or lie to your boss, sorry 😔.