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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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
How to Track Team Leaves (PTO) in Notion (Includes Template)
I'd like to thank Kyriacos for allowing me to share this template. I developed this Leaves Tracker for his family business, and he generously suggested I make it available as a…
How to Sync Jira to Notion (Notion Native Jira Sync)
In Notion, you can sync Jira issues, tasks, projects, and more via the native Jira integration. This sync doesn’t require any external integrations; it only requires connecting…
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What do i know?
We move through the day with many elements inadvertently affecting us—from the food we ate or didn’t eat, to all the limiting beliefs accumulated over a lifetime from all sorts of…
Formidable people
In a landmark essay, Paul Graham of Y Combinator defined a formidable (startup) founder as “one who seems like they’ll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in…
How to Hide Sensitive Data in Notion Databases (Property Access Rules)
Collaborative workspaces often need restricted access—different access for different groups or individuals. Not just at a page or database level (see page-level access), but also…
On sociality
If you observe ants, you will notice how they often bump into each other for a second or more to detect whether they are from the same group and exchange signals. For example,…
Caring and beyond
In teenage years, those who care least acquire the most admiration from peers. That admiration—and the seeming lack of care itself—are rather unstable and inauthentic most of the…