Kola vs Notion

Choose Notion if

You want to design the structure
You are storing documents and wikis
Your team works in the same pages

Choose Kola if

You want people without building a schema
You want it filled in from your accounts
You do not want to maintain rows

What Notion is for

You build a Notion database. Kola builds itself.

Notion is a workspace. You design the database and you keep it filled in.

Kola makes the opposite bargain. There is no schema to design and no rows to maintain.

What	Notion	Kola
Made for	A workspace you design	Remembering the people you meet
Reads	What you type into it	Email, calendar, messengers, recorded calls and your notes
You end up with	The database you built	A page per person you did not have to build
Who it suits	People who like building the system	People who would rather not

Keep Notion for documents. Let Kola keep the people in them.

It fills itself

People arrive from your mail, calendar, messengers and calls. There is no data entry and no fields to keep up.

Organised by person

Every email, meeting and note about someone collapses onto one page for that person, without you filing anything.

You can still add your own fields

Custom fields are yours. Kola never writes vendor data into them and never overwrites what you typed.

Kola's People table with company, position, relationship strength, last touched, email, phone, location and birthday columns

This table was not typed in. It arrived.

Switching

There is nothing to migrate.

Kola does not import from another tool, and it does not need to. It reads the same accounts you already connected elsewhere and builds its own picture from them.

1

Install Kola.

One download, signed and notarized by Apple. Nothing to export from Notion first.
2

Connect an account.

Start with the mailbox and calendar you live in. Kola reads them in the background and fills itself in.
3

Keep both for a while.

Nothing forces a decision. Run them side by side and keep whichever earns its place.

Questions

Before you switch.

Can Kola read my Notion?

No. Kola reads mail, calendar, messengers, recorded calls and its own notes. Notion is not one of its sources.

Can I still add my own fields?

Yes. Custom fields are yours. Kola never writes vendor data into them and never overwrites what you typed.

Do I have to import anything to get started?

No. Connect the same accounts you already use and Kola builds itself from them. There is nothing to export from anywhere else first.

Which accounts can it read?

Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail, Google and Outlook calendars, Google and Apple Contacts, Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook. Connect only the ones you use.

What does it need to run?

An Apple Silicon Mac. Kola is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens with a normal double-click.

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Never forget who you know.

Install Kola and connect an account. Kola builds your contacts from there.

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