Microsoft’s Game-Changer: NEW Loop Feature to Challenge Notion!

Microsoft Loop is the next best thing since... well productivity and note-taking app 'Notion'. This Week in IT, I look at how Microsoft is planning to challenge Notion and how current features are building towards a big update that customers have requested from Microsoft.
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⌚ Time stamps
00:00 - Start
01:01 - Microsoft Loop vs Notion
02:47 - Big new feature coming to Loop
03:42 - Loop table filters and detailed view
05:58 - Microsoft Loop vs OneNote
07:09 - Workspace templates are missing in action

[ThisWeekinIT]

Thanks for watching! What do you think of Microsoft Loop? Does it stand a chance of challenging Notion?

[StevenMichels]

With MS products, its always a question of when they actually roll it out, then when does my IT actually give me access to it. It's tough to get excited about something I might not see for a year or more.

[koenignero]

I would be a big Loop fan if they would open it up to private accounts as well

[beardenbob]

If something like database integration really happens, I hope it's not yet another independent, DB silo, but rather leverages something existing like SharePoint lists or even Dataverse (or both 🙂)

[Coatsey]

Great video, thank you, nobody is talking about the Achilles heel, if your mobile and don’t have access to Internet, unlike OneNote or Apple notes to name just a few, it’s completely unusable.

[DuaneAlleman]

I want to love Loop - but my years as a SharePoint Architect/Admin - the lack of enterprise data control makes it very challenging to advocate. So many parts are tied to personal OneDrive storage and in our current market there is a lot of churn - which causes this info to possibly get lost when OneDrive files go away. MS makes it easy from user perspective to use without knowing or thinking about where to save, etc. - but that causes friction when dealing with thousands of team members around the globe for larger enterprises. Great content and appreciate the video - hoping MS can make it a little easier to manage from the enterprise sooner rather than later..

[AlanHill]

I'd love to see Power Automate integrated much deeper, and combined with adding database support it really could be amazing. They also need to add a free tier, the fact that Notion allows you use it for free is great for hooking people in,

[BrianPearcy]

I want to like Loop but it's a bad half baked product. Loop tasks won't sync to To-Do, inserting a loop component in OneNote doesn't work, and loop components are just links in the native version of Outlook. I've given up on trying to use it.

[beachview]

I still use onenote and I like to use apple pencil to take quick notes. Loop appears not to have an easy way to use apple pencil. I can use scribble its not easy and very slow needing many corrections. Will Microsoft be improving the ink or pencil options in Loop? I would like some day to convert all my onenote pages to Loop pages. Currently this is only possible one page at a time. Do you know will there be a batch conversion option some time down the line?

[justinmobile]

I don't really get the attraction other than note taking but then I'd also want it to understand mermaid diagrams. The database thing could be interesting providing they don't lock it to dataverse. I suspect Notion has more integration capabilities too so it can receive webhook payloads from other services.

[RobMata]

I would switch from OneNote if pen/handwriting support is introduced. Other than that..nice roadmap so far

If they implement the database in Dataverse, they win the game. Look at Project and now the new flavor of Planner. Hope they do that!

[jeisonsanchez]

I like what Loop is trying to do but I don’t feel comfortable using it in production until they add some export features: Markdown, MS Word, PDF, etc. - not just from individual pages but also from workspaces.

[tspmcfarlane]

Reslly useful and insightful information. Thanks!

[RagnarVonLodbrok]

Loop components are the OLE objects for the web. And today's performance is horrendous. Sometimes it freezes and the UX behaviour does not feel natural.

[shannster]

Can you backup Loop like one should the rest of M365?
I want to use it for documenting company processes, but scared to do so if it’s not backed up…

[sbmasonator]

There are still a lot of things missing. Databases are a very important feature for sure, but it really needs better page embedding, page templates, etc to really compete…

[benjikauth]

Lame headline. No games are changed at this point. 10 minute video that should have been 5 tops. Doing it for the algorithm instead of the audience. Meh.

[issiewizzie]

I suspect the database functionality will be another premium product

[ArnauViaM]

I would love to use loop to share documents, meeting agenda and tasks with my retail customers, so that they have the full history of interactions and documents, but microsoft hasn't released the option to share workspaces with third parties, has it?