Today I want to talk about a little trick to add some extra functionality to Notion. Many of you might have already played with interesting web-hosted embeds – by typing “/embed”, you can embed web-pages into a Notion page, and this has lead to some pretty creative tools already. Things like embedding weather widgets into […]
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A year or two ago, I switched from Obsidian back into Notion. It wasn’t an easy decision – Obsidian is a phenomenal tool – Notion just worked better for me as a task manager and multi-purpose second brain. Since moving out, though, I’ve always felt a bit of a phantom limb sensation. Notion’s backlinks system
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Spaced repetition and self-quizzing is a tried and true method to learn. Tools like Anki have been around for ages, and they do a great job of creating a digital cue-card system where you can easily test yourself to make sure you understand something. In the past I’ve played with using Notion for spaced repetition
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I’m always looking for ways to better automate my workflows, and my ‘Second Brain’ is no exception. Notion has come a very long way in the last few years with their additional features, but one thing that had been on my wishlist for quite some time were improvements in their in-body ‘template button’. Well, now
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In Notion, there are certainly many ways to skin a cat. Over the years I’ve played with all sorts of journal and habit tracking systems – back then I disdained the rather simple habit tracker of checkbox fields, but over time Notion’s features have expanded, and now that Notion allows for scheduling templates, I’ve actually
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One of my first and most popular articles I posted on Medium was “How to build a second brain in Notion”. In it I described my quest to refine and perfect my digital knowledge system – basically how I organize my to-do list, projects, notes and everything else, in a way that I could quickly
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When life gets you down, it’s worth remembering that anybody with internet access can freely download and read the entire Harvard Classics – thousands of hours of cultivated quality reading that would have been the envy of virtually anyone in history. In a spontaneous (and perhaps over-ambitious) desire to read the whole thing, I began
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A few months ago, I wrote an introduction to my Notion ‘second-brain’ system – around that time I’d revised a somewhat messy conglomeration of different databases, and one I’d joked about was a Judo throw database. At the time I’d described it as something of an extraneous thing, adding some needless complexity to a system.
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If you’re a Notion user, odds are you’ve played with it as a task manager or to-do list app. Today I’m going to talk about how to integrate your task list with a reward system, to help motivate yourself to check off tasks. This method was inspired by an app called Habitica, which ‘gamifies’ your
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Let’s take a minute to revisit a classic study method developed in the 1940s, and bring it up to speed with modern technology to really enhance its versatility. Using this method you’ll be able to seamlessly connect your thinking to the important concepts, create digital flashcards of key terms for yourself, and pull information from
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