Life
Make the Work the Reward - Elaborations on Living
There is an incredibly vast landscape of ways you could live and perceive your life - how and what do you choose?
Apply Any Page as a Template via the Notion API
The Notion template API parameter lets you apply any prebuilt page or data source template in one call, including blocks the standard API can’t create
Notion Databases Explained + API Changes (New Notion Data Model)
Notion’s “database” now means a container that can hold multiple data sources, while each data source is the table of records (pages) you work with. This shift changes organization, permissions management, and API behavior. In this post and accompanying video, I showcase the new database model, explain why it matters, and provide guidance on how to avoid common pitfalls.
Drag-and-drop Tasks from Notion into Your Calendar - Notion Calendar Database Integration
How to do time blocking in Notion Calendar, seeing events, easy drag-and-drop interface, and more integrations between Notion databases and Notion Calendar.
How to Use Notion MCP in Make - Exploration (Automate Notion with AI)
Learn how to connect and implement the Notion MCP server in Make as part of your automations or AI Agents. Automate Notion with AI.
All the features of Notion databases + Feed View
How to set up databases in Notion - overview and details about the Notion database settings menu
A Framework for Life - To Live Your Life
Some thoughts and practices I have been developing over time and am ready to share, or maybe not.
6 Unique Notion Mail Features You Need to Know
Notion Mail has some unique features that make it an interesting email client for increasing intentionality in how you process and conceptualize emails.
Advanced Travel Planning System (Notion Template, Coda & Airtable)
Advanced travel planning and management system for frequent travelers, available in Notion, Coda, and Airtable. Plan, track, review your travels all in one place.
The Big Five Personality Traits & Social Status Seeking - How Your Personality Affects Status-Seeking Behavior
We play social status games all the time. Our Personality Traits significantly influence the degree to which we engage in these games. This essay explores how personality correlates with status-seeking behavior through the lens of evolutionary psychology.
On the cultivation of (quiet) confidence
A powerful motivation that may often linger in the background of your mind is the desire to impress or compete with others in an imaginary race…
How to create Forms in Notion - Notion Forms overview
Notion Forms enable you to gather data from both internal and external individuals in your Notion workspace. This essay and video explain how Notion Forms function.
Notion Automations - everything you need to know (2024)
Automations in Notion can power up your systems significantly. This video explores the current state of Notion automation (as of November 2024).
Notion Layouts - everything you need to know
Layouts are a new way of organizing properties at the top of database pages in Notion.
Crab mentality - crabs in a bucket
Once you can start taking action and reducing the paralyzing impact of your limiting beliefs to a minimum, the additional layer of barrier you may encounter are the people around you, who can’t fully psychologically handle the envy stemming from seeing someone else close enough to them raise out of the bucket and into “success”.
How to conduct a GTD-style weekly review in Notion - with template
How to conduct a weekly review (in GTD-style) in Notion.
Everything you need to know about Notion Charts - how to create native charts in Notion
How to use Notion Charts and some use cases (includes full demonstration video).
How to trigger webhooks from Notion databases and buttons - Make, Zapier, n8n, Pipedream
Discover how to create and setup webhooks that can be triggered from Notion databases, also using dynamic URL parameters from property values.
How to manage and track goals in Airtable - Airtable Goal Setting Toolkit
A free template to manage and track your personal goals using the latest goal-setting scientific evidence.