Delivery features are native
Dependencies, critical path, velocity and burndown work on day one instead of being assembled from relations and rollups.
Comparison
Taskzin vs Notion
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Notion
NotionThe short answer
Choose Taskzin if the work needs to be tracked, scheduled and reported on. Choose Notion if the work mostly needs to be written down. Notion is an outstanding document and database tool, but delivery features — dependencies, sprint velocity, capacity and burndown — have to be hand-built from database views, and they degrade as the workspace grows.
Feature by feature
Every row checked against Notion’s published plans, not marketing copy.
| Capability | Taskzin | Notion |
|---|---|---|
| Writing and documents | Good | Best in class |
| Board, List, Calendar | ||
| Timeline and Gantt | ||
| Task dependencies | Hand-built | |
| Sprints, velocity, burndown | Hand-built | |
| Capacity and workload | ||
| Dashboards on live task data | ||
| Time tracking | ||
| Performance at 5,000+ items | Consistent | Degrades |
| Setup effort | Minutes | Days of design |
| Flexible databases | ||
| Company wiki |
Where Taskzin wins
Four things we do better than Notion.
It stays fast at scale
Large Notion databases slow down noticeably. Taskzin is designed around thousands of tasks being the normal case.
Nobody has to be the architect
Notion workspaces depend on one person who designed the system. Taskzin arrives already structured.
Reporting without rollup gymnastics
Dashboards read live task data. In Notion the same view is a chain of relations somebody has to maintain.
The other side
Where Notion is genuinely better
- The best writing and document experience of anything in this comparison.
- Databases are more flexible than any purpose-built task tool, including ours.
- It genuinely can be a whole company wiki, CRM and handbook in one place.
- The template ecosystem is enormous and the community is very active.
If those matter more to you than speed and a single bill, Notion is the better buy. We would rather say so now.
Migration
Moving off Notion takes about an hour.
Read-only on the source, sandboxed on the target, reversible at every step.
1
Connect the old tool
Authorise read access with OAuth. Nothing is written to your existing workspace at any point — the importer is read-only on the source.
Typical time: 2 minutes2
Map the fields
Projects, statuses, custom fields, assignees and comment history are mapped automatically. You review the mapping and override anything that looks wrong.
Typical time: 15 minutes3
Dry run and preview
The import runs into a sandbox workspace first. Walk through the result with your team before a single task lands in the real one.
Typical time: 30 minutes4
Go live, or roll back
Promote the sandbox to your live workspace. If anything is off, one click reverses the whole import and you carry on where you were.
Typical time: 5 minutes“Notion is still our handbook. It stopped being our tracker the week we could not answer what was actually blocked.”
Sofia JarviHead of Product, NorthwindQuestions before switching
Yes. The importer maps projects, statuses, custom fields, assignees, comments and attachments from Notion, runs into a sandbox first, and can be rolled back in one click. Most teams finish in under an hour.
Usually, because guests are free and features are not spread across tiers. The honest answer is that it depends on your mix of editors and viewers — the pricing page shows the full breakdown with no "contact us" gaps.
Yes, and we recommend it for one sprint. Nothing is deleted from Notion during import, so both tools stay usable while your team settles in.
Then use it. The section above lists exactly where it wins. We would rather you pick the right tool than churn in three months.
Other comparisons
Try Taskzin next to Notion for a sprint.
Import is reversible and nothing is deleted from your current tool. Run both, keep the one your team opens first.
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