Notion might be the most flexible tool ever built for teams: pages, wikis, and databases that can become almost anything. The catch is in the word become. Notion doesn’t have a task manager — it has the parts to build one, and someone on your team gets to be the architect, maintainer, and helpdesk for it.
The system you have to build (and keep building)
Every Notion project setup is bespoke: a tasks database here, a projects database there, relations between them, a rollup for progress, template buttons for new items, filtered views per person. It works — until the person who built it leaves, or the team’s process changes, or someone breaks a formula.
TskVlo is the finished system. Boards come with groups, assignees, comments, sub-items, and a My Tasks view across all boards. You configure fields and automation, not the underlying machinery of what a “task” is.
What Notion simply doesn’t do
- Time tracking: TskVlo has a server-side timer on every task, manual entries, and reports with per-member/per-task totals and CSV export. Notion offers nothing native here.
- Real automation: rules that react to due dates arriving, items moving, fields changing — or a linked GitHub/GitLab pull request merging — and then set fields, move items, or notify people.
- Dependencies with guarantees: blocking relationships with circular-dependency protection, visible in your workflow.
- Push notifications: browser push even when the tab is closed, with per-type preferences.
Docs aren’t forgotten
TskVlo won’t out-write Notion, but it doesn’t leave you documentless: every workspace has a Wiki — a tree of nested pages with a rich Markdown editor, comments, attachments, and full revision history — every task supports rich Markdown descriptions, and each board’s Files view gathers all its attachments in one place. Meeting notes, specs, and runbooks can live right next to the work they describe.
AI on your terms
Notion AI is a bundled, hosted feature. TskVlo’s AI assistant runs on an endpoint you choose — OpenAI, Mistral, or a self-hosted model via Ollama or vLLM — and can answer questions about board status, draft tasks from a description, and summarize comment threads. The full MCP server goes further: Claude and other MCP-compatible assistants can create and manage tasks directly.
Where Notion still wins
For knowledge management — company wikis, long-form docs, meeting notes as a culture — Notion is the best tool on the market, and its template ecosystem is unmatched. The pragmatic setup we see most often: Notion for knowledge, TskVlo for execution.
Making the move
Export your Notion task databases as CSV and import them in TskVlo under Board Settings → Import / Export. Statuses become status fields, people become person fields, and your team plans its first sprint the same day.
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