So for 5 years, “offline” has been the #1 request.

Today, thanks to the perseverance of our engineering team, @NotionHQ finally works offline. Your ideas don’t need Wi‑Fi to exist!

For Notion community: thank you for your patience while we built this right.

This is a journey, I want to share what we had to invent to make this real... 1/n Why did offline take so long? You might ask.

Notion is unique. Unlike products like Apple Notes, which is private and stored on your device first, Notion is collaborative — it has to sync across workspaces with thousands of people. 2/n

Last week, @NotionHQ passed 100M users!

I found the photo I took after we reached 1000 users.

And I still recall the day when we passed 1M in 2020 right before covid.

I feel grateful, introspective. Looking back, there's so much learning, yet much remains unchanged...

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In our early years, we were rather lost.

We started in 2013, but it wasn't until 2018 w/ Notion 2.0 @ProductHunt launch that we saw signs of traction.

We had no business sense, struggled with building a horizontal tool. Notion almost died (thanks for the bridge, mom!)

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Gm!
Today @NotionHQ is announcing $275M in new funding led by Coatue & @sequoia, with participation from @Base10Partners @ShineCapitalNYC

You can read details here: forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

But in this thread, I want to bring it back to why we're here & where we're headed.

1/7 At heart, @NotionHQ has always been a tool company.

We like to describe our mission as two-fold — software toolmaking AND ubiquity.

As a company we need to work on both, missing half is missing the whole.

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