Glue vs Notion for Product Teams

Notion stores what your team writes down. Glue reads what your team actually built. One is a wiki. The other is code intelligence.

What Notion Does

Notion is a collaboration workspace:

• Write and organize documents
• Create databases and track information
• Collaborate with team members
• Share knowledge
• Reference single source of truth

Best for: Teams that need a central place to store information and collaborate.

What Glue Does

Glue reads your codebase:

• Understands what you actually built
• Answers questions about architecture
• Estimates feature impact
• Identifies technical risks
• Generates documentation from code (not from written docs)

Best for: Product teams that need to understand actual code, not just written descriptions.

The Key Difference

Notion has info about your codebase (architecture docs, decision logs, etc.) Glue reads your actual codebase (the source of truth)

Problem: Docs get outdated. Code doesn't.

When You Need Both

Best setup:

• Notion: Team writes down decisions, strategy, process
• Glue: Product team uses code analysis to inform decisions
• Together: Written knowledge + code understanding = complete picture

Without Notion: Knowledge lives only in heads or Slack Without Glue: You rely on outdated documentation instead of current code