{"id":156668,"date":"2024-01-31T17:09:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=156668"},"modified":"2024-01-31T17:09:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:09:18","slug":"fascination-with-notion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2024\/01\/31\/fascination-with-notion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascination with Notion"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Over the last couple of months I&#8217;ve been really fascinated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notion.so\/\">Notion<\/a>.\u00a0 It has really grown, improved and matured!<\/p>\n<p>If you are not familiar with Notion, let me tell you about it.\u00a0 Like many cool things, it&#8217;s difficult to describe in one sentence.\u00a0 So here are a few.<\/p>\n<p>Think of content management systems, like WordPress or your favorite wiki.\u00a0 Now, think of only the good parts of that.\u00a0 Now, add the ability to easily create and manage basic database tables.\u00a0 Now add templates.\u00a0 Now add some basic automation to it.\u00a0 Now add API.\u00a0 Now add collaboration.\u00a0 Now, once again, think of the good parts of all that.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s what you have &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notion.so\/\">Notion<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Once you imagine all that, probably, the first and most important question you&#8217;d ask is: What do I use it for?<\/p>\n<p>The simple answer is &#8211; pretty much for everything.\u00a0 But you&#8217;ll have to figure it out yourself.\u00a0 Same things will and will not work for different people, because we are all different.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few things that I either have done already or still playing with in Notion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CRM<\/strong>.\u00a0 Our company CRM was getting outdated pretty fast and we were looking for an alternative for a while now.\u00a0 Notion came along, and we tried to adopt it for this particular need.\u00a0 It took me around a week to build up all the tables, templates, and automation scripts, and then another 2-3 weeks to prepare, cleanup, migrate, and enrich the data.\u00a0 The result is not perfect, but it is significantly better than what we had.\u00a0 And we have space to grow and improve.\u00a0 Our old CRM has now been in read-only mode for a couple of month, and we are checking it less and less.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty confident it will soon be decomissioned.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Personal Journal<\/strong>. Not to be confused with the blog, although there&#8217;s a huge overlap.\u00a0 For my rare and occasional blogging, I still prefer and will use this WordPress.\u00a0 But for more private things, Notion does it really well.\u00a0 My personal journal includes a whole lot of things like notes, habbits, lessons learned, and even affirmations &#8211; something that I&#8217;ve learned from other people&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notion.so\/templates\">templates<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weight Track<\/strong>. In preparation for the yet another sailing regatta, I started tracking my own weight and exercise.\u00a0 This works particularly well with goals and milestones.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Personal Finance<\/strong>.\u00a0 Over the decades, I&#8217;ve probably tried a gadzillion personal finance applications, tools, and approaches.\u00a0 In Notion, I&#8217;ve built the one that works for me.\u00a0 And it only took me a few hours of clicking around, while figuring out how to convert between accounting and databases (spoiler: it&#8217;s easier than you think).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quick Notes<\/strong>. Again, one of those areas where I shift from tool to another tool after a few years.\u00a0 My latest choice was Google Keep.\u00a0 It turns out, I can build a better (for me) version of Google Keep in Notion in just a few minutes.\u00a0 All I need to do now is import the content from my old and forgotten Evernote account (or do I really need those notes? probably not).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just me. And that&#8217;s just in the last few weeks.\u00a0 Other people have been using and building in Notion for a lot longer, and for their own needs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that if you give it a try, you&#8217;ll find something that it works for really good really quick.\u00a0 And also you&#8217;ll keep or revert to some of your current tools and applications as a better alternative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Over the last couple of months I&#8217;ve been really fascinated with Notion.\u00a0 It has really grown, improved and matured! If you are not familiar with Notion, let me tell you about it.\u00a0 Like many cool things, it&#8217;s difficult to describe in one sentence.\u00a0 So here are a few. Think of content management systems, like WordPress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2024\/01\/31\/fascination-with-notion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fascination with Notion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2,62,1334],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-156668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","category-technology","category-web-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18251,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/29\/the-notion-that-youre-trying-to-control-the-proce\/","url_meta":{"origin":156668,"position":0},"title":"The notion that you&#8217;re trying to control the proce&#8230;","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 29, 2013","format":"quote","excerpt":"The notion that you're trying to control the process and prevent error screws things up. 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