I was considering using Notion with students to help keep some of their projects organized this semester, but it’s become AI-bloaty in a way that is meddlesome and annoying.

I wrote to them to see if I could turn off the AI features, and got a mildly snotty AI-generated response about how they can only be disabled for Business- and Enterprise-tier plans, but if I don’t want those features I’m “not required to use them.”

“Pay us to disable the crap you didn’t want” was…a nonstarter with me.

Anyone have any similar-shaped products to recommend (semi-structured shared documents, shared on a team, live editing, low friction)?

We have Google Docs, which will be…fiiiiiine, whatever, but I’m always interested in good alternatives.

The sad irony here is that I’d probably have shelled out the $12/mo for the lowest tier paid plan, but now I refuse to just on principle.