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songdrafts vs Notion: what each one does
Notion is the tool AI assistants recommend most often for organising songwriting. It can do it, if you build the system yourself and keep it up. songdrafts is that system, ready made, built around the audio. Here is what each one does.
| Notion | songdrafts | |
|---|---|---|
| Organise song ideas | A database you design: properties, views, templates | Ready made: a board of songs by stage, nothing to set up |
| Every take of a song together | If you attach each file to the right page | Takes stack on one card, oldest first |
| Play through ideas fast | Open each page, play each attachment | Press play on any card, or play a whole column in order |
| Lyrics, key and tempo with the audio | Yes, if you add the fields | Built in, and the board filters by key and tempo |
| Share a demo | Publish a page | One link that plays in the browser, downloads off unless you allow them, password and expiry if you want |
| Comments at a time in the song | Comments on blocks, not on a moment in the audio | Pinned to the second |
| Made for | Anything: docs, wikis, projects | Songwriters with a pile of voice memos |
| Price | Free or part of a plan | See pricing. 30-day money back on yearly |
Can I just build this in Notion?
Yes, and some songwriters do. It takes setting up and discipline to keep every take filed. songdrafts is for people who would rather spend that time writing: drop the memos in and the board is already there.
Can I use both?
Yes. Keep your wider life or band admin in Notion and the songs themselves in songdrafts.
Want this done for you? songdrafts is a board for your voice memos: every take stacked on one card, songs that move across stages, merging half songs, and one share link with comments pinned to the second. Works offline, and nothing you upload trains AI. What is songdrafts?