Q: What is different about using Waybook vs using Notion for SOPs?
Mike_HopperHQ
May 15, 2024A: Hi there, I hope you're well and thanks for your message.
This is a great question and its certainly a common ask to compare against various notation apps.
There certainly is a good amount of overlap between Waybook and Notion.
Mainly in that they're both great tools for notation and documentation.
One of the core benefits of Waybook over Notion however is that it's specifically designed for business documentation, training and onboarding with a core focus on keeping your business on the same page.
Ultimately Waybook enables you to onboard people much faster and with more consistency, some of the main reasons why people graduate to Waybook from Notion are:
- Waybook has a strong and clear structure of documentation across subjects, documents and steps. This maintains consistency as your information grows and removes the trouble of having multiple versions of different notes dotted in different places.
- Readers can easily 'Mark as complete' as they consume content. This gives them some light gamification so readers often feel at ease and in flow when consuming your company information.- Read and complete status also means that readers can easily pick up where they left off as Waybook always tracks their completion status and shows this to them on their login.
- Tracking progress of readers using Waybook reports means managers can easily see where their team are in consuming and understanding their content, rather then just hoping they read the content in a doc.
- Waybook enables you to add in tests and assessments to make sure that your team are understanding the information rather than just scanning past it. You can also set different pass criteria for tests that ensure a certain level of pass mark before they can move on.
- When adding and editing content Waybook will easily notify all relevant members that information has changed and needs to be re-reviewed. This is game changing at keeping everyone on the same page.
- Waybook enables you to create highly engaging rich content within digestible steps. The ability to transfer knowledge using individual steps within Waybook is far greater than a series of notes and it can also be a lot more fun to read.
- Waybook enables you to set custom permission levels and specify what content individual members have access to. While there is some element of this in Notion, Waybook it gives you the ability to have different levels of team members editing or reviewing the same documents.
- Another core value is that Waybook can be custom branded and for plans with 30+ seats have cname support so it can sit on a subdomain of your own domain.
I hope this gives a bit more flavour of the core differences but we'd love to answer any other question or offer any support as you need in order to get your business on the same page.