New around here!

Hey folks!
I’m new to Fibery and wanted to share my first impressions.

After a year using Notion to manage social media posts (and a few other things), I started running into some problems. I had checked out other tools before, but nothing really did what I liked about Notion.

One thing I still haven’t found here is something like Notion Pages. I rely on that a lot because some of the companies I work with have pretty non-techy teams, and Pages helps organize everything in a super intuitive way.


How I found Fibery :bullseye:

Just yesterday I saw a Reddit post about “Notion 3.0” and someone commented:

“It’s crazy how Fibery.io is better than all of these and still not that well-known!”

Got curious, came to check it out and… wow, it’s amazing!
Right away I found features I had always wanted in Notion:

  • A button that opens a dialog to enter data (seriously, if a button can change values, there has to be a dialog option for user input).

  • A much stronger permissions system, which already stood out to me when setting up the workspace.


Things I missed :thinking:

  • Calendar view doesn’t seem to have a weekly mode (or maybe I just couldn’t find it). I really use that a lot to focus on the week.

  • When embedding a calendar into a doc or dashboard, the day squares don’t resize to fit the element. I’d love to have, say, a small monthly calendar widget, but instead it creates scroll bars.

  • I’m a Brazilian Portuguese speaker, and I really missed having that option (I can use any tool in English just fine, but most of my clients and teams can’t :smiling_face_with_tear:).

I’ll keep testing to see what else I can or can’t do here compared to Notion, and I’ll share more feedback later.


Final thoughts :speech_balloon:

I’m honestly super happy that Fibery exists!
I probably won’t fully switch just yet because of the missing Notion Pages-like feature, but it feels like just a matter of time. I tried Docs and Dashboards, but they didn’t quite fill that gap for me.

That said, huge props to the team! It’s clear you all know what you’re doing. If you keep moving in this direction, I have no doubt Fibery will eventually surpass Notion completely.

Also, I really love when devs participate in the community. I’ve always had this motto:

“The community is what keeps you alive.”

When devs interact (doesn’t even need to be the founders), it makes us feel way more confident in what we’re investing in.

Thanks a lot and congrats again! :clap:

Here’s a screenshot of one of the pages showing the tasks!
There’s a pretty big data cross-over here, and I had to do some hacks to make it work, especially the task approval part (that empty spot in the middle).

On this page, I can drag a task from the bottom straight into the weekly calendar at the top. I’ve got a synced menu on the side, and right below the weekly calendar there’s a list with the next events (10 days) pulled from another database.

Anyway, there are a lot of pages I’ve built, this is just one of them!

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Welcome!!

There’s Fibery Documents, but those aren’t so good. Better would be to make a database called “Page” and add a one to many relation to itself (parent and sub-pages). Then when you create a new page in the rich text by pressing “#” then typing a title, then pressing “add new” and pressing “Page”, it will automatically create it as a subpage. (Lots more steps than in notion… yes…)

You can then add a smart folder for the pages, and toggle the circle arrow for it to show parents and sub-pages under each other.

You’re right. Only exists when you have a Date and time field. But I just showcased a workaround here: Weekly view using relations, automations, and board view.

Yeah, you can’t drag and drop entities across views in Fibery, so you might need to filter it it in certain ways, and then show different buttons per view for it to move from view to view based on the field change + filters.

Welcome to this little (hopefully growing) corner of the internet, Rafael! :))

Thanks!
I’d already used Fibery’s Documents, but it can’t place two views side by side, so I dismissed the idea from the start!
Then I tried to do it in the dashboard, but it can’t place text, etc., directly on the dashboard!
If it could, it would be a game-changer, as I could place dividers, titles, etc., all directly on the dashboard grid!

It can, use /columns command in text

You can create new Document Widget right on the Dashboard and type any text you want

There’s a decent chance this was one of my posts, I say stuff like this all the time on Reddit :face_with_peeking_eye: haha Welcome to Fibery!

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Guys, I’m officially migrating to Fibery!
I talked with my team, even though it doesn’t offer some of the features we had in Notion, the technical side brings way more advantages compared to what we’d lose, especially when it comes to approvals and using buttons!

The only thing the team really complained about is that, on the dashboard, you can’t drag items to other views, even when it’s the same database with a different visualization.

So, we’re officially Team Fibery!
I’ll miss the page buttons (maybe one day Fibery will let us add buttons inside Dashboards, I’ll be waiting for that day)!

Even though it doesn’t have a Portuguese version yet, we’re going all in!

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Welcome on board! Unfortunately both these features are not in near future scope, but there is always hope for some future!

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That’s sad :cry:
The button isn’t that big of a deal, honestly!
But it would be super practical if I could just drag my tasks to the date I want to complete them, instead of clicking and setting each date manually!

I get that calendars here work differently since they can pull from more than one database — maybe it’s only possible when the calendar uses a single one (that part’s not really my area, hehe)!

Anyway, thanks a lot!
Nothing that would stop me from using Fibery as a whole!
Wishing you a great day!

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Still hoping for buttons outside of views in the ‘next-to’ near future!

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Customizable Buttons in whiteboard could give a closer “App feeling” that would be really really interesting.