Notion is a general-purpose workspace: pages, databases and blocks you can shape into almost anything, including a to-do list, a calendar or a habit tracker. Todowl is the opposite starting point - a task board, a calendar, notes and a habit tracker that already work together, with nothing to assemble first.

Feature	Todowl	Notion
Task board out of the box	Kanban and list views ship ready to use, organized by project.	You build a database and a board view yourself before you have one.
Calendar view	Weekly and monthly views with color-coding by project and drag-and-drop scheduling.	A calendar database view exists, but setting up recurring events and task links takes manual configuration.
Habit tracker	A dedicated monthly grid with streaks and completion rates.	No dedicated habit feature - people usually rebuild one from a database template.
Notes	A rich text editor organized by project, searchable, meant for quick capture.	Notion's core strength - flexible pages and nested blocks for long-form notes.
Setup time	Sign in and the task board, calendar and habit grid are already there.	Depends entirely on the template you pick or build - can be minutes or hours.