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How to Build Native Dashboards in Notion - Notion Dashboard View
Dashboards are metrics-driven visualizations that help you and your team make choices based on data, or simply consult analytics about your work and life endeavors. Insights based…
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Notion Custom Agents Explained
Once returned from grocery shopping and having organized the kitchen, Ryan sat at his desk and opened the laptop. During the time he was outside, what he often refers to as his…
Life
Make the Work the Reward - Elaborations on Living
To live life by intention instead of by default, you need to want it. I'm claiming that living by intention is desirable and superior to living by default—a claim that sits at the…
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Notion AI Agent Deep Dive
Notion AI's most powerful capability is its ability to access your entire workspace, connected apps (Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, and more), and web search while leveraging the…
Notion Databases Explained + API Changes (New Notion Data Model)
Traditionally in Notion, a "database" meant what software developers call a "table" - a collection of records with a primary key and various properties (columns). As of August…
Apply Any Page as a Template via the Notion API
When you create a Notion page through automations using the Notion API (e.g., via tools like Make, n8n, or Zapier), you have two options for populating page content: 1. The…
Notion AI Agent Use Cases (Agent Personalization Templates)
Agentic AI — LLMs that can not only output text, but take actions on your behalf using multiple tools — is being released and refined in Notion. This shifts some fundamental…
Notion-powered AI Agents: Use Notion as a Data Source with Flowise and Notion MCP
We can build chatflows and agentflows (AI multi-agent systems) in Flowise AI. An interesting application of AI Agents is when they have context and content about your specific…
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Of all the possible things you could do, how do you decide what to do?
How you do anything matters more than what you do. When you pay attention to the how, you can excel at whatever you do. Take hospitality, for example, as illustrated by Will…
AI Skills in Notion
Say, you’ve trained boxing for many years and you stumble upon a street fight one night. You immediately invoke your boxing skills to protect your friend. Similarly, Notion AI has…
The missing advice on habits
A useful tool in establishing something new is to make it easy to do that behavior (i.e., to use affordances). You place your training clothes on the chair the night before in…
Constant imaginary conversations
We go about our days with a machinery of imaginary conversations or monologues from relevant people in our lives, whether in the past or present, dead or alive. It’s easy to take…
Notion AI Computer Access
While working on a PowerPoint presentation for an upcoming investor meeting, John—the CEO of a fast-growing U.K. scale-up—let a Notion Custom Agent use all the notes in the…