Notion: guides & tutorials

Notion Team costs $16 per user per month. For a 10-person team that's $160/month — $1,920/year — for a notes and wiki tool where your data lives on Notion Labs' servers and your search is rate-limited on the free tier. Self-hosting an open-source alternative on a 4 GB Liquid Web VPS costs around $15–$33/month regardless of headcount, your data never leaves your infrastructure, and you're not subject to per-seat pricing that compounds as the team grows.

Managing professional relationships is a problem every founder, salesperson, and consultant faces — and there is no single perfect tool. Clay (now called Mesh), HubSpot, and Notion are three of the most common answers, but they solve fundamentally different problems.

This guide breaks down which tool is right for your specific use case.

Naming note: This comparison covers Clay the personal CRM at clay.earth, now rebranded to Mesh. This is unrelated to Clay.com, the B2B sales enrichment platform.

Notion is the go-to knowledge base for teams. Make.com is the no-code automation platform that connects it to everything else. Together, they let you build workflows that create pages, update databases, sync meeting notes, and push task assignments to Slack—all without writing a single line of code.

This tutorial walks you through the Make.com Notion integration from scratch: connecting the module, building your first scenario, and wiring up a full end-to-end workflow.