Notion as a Curiosity Engine

Hello, there, Notion fan.

It's been a bit. Marie and I have had a busy autumn so far. We spoke at Tiago Forte's Second Brain Summit in Los Angeles and then we made another trip to San Francisco for Marie to speak at the Make with Notion conference at the end of October.

If you've ever done a conference speaking gig before, you might be aware of how much time and energy it takes to prepare, so we've been in recovery mode this month.

However, we're pretty happy with the outcome as our talk on Digital Permaculture (slides) looks like it might become a book next year. And we're delighted that the replay of Marie's talk from the Make conference is available to watch on Notion's YouTube channel. It wasn't streamed live, so many folks didn't get to check it out!

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In this session Marie does a live walkthrough of some of her journaling, habit-tracking, and wellness systems. I'm pretty biased, but I think it was the best session of the conference.

WATCH "NOTION AS A CURIOSITY ENGINE"

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Principles of Dashboarding Masterclass

After lots of great feedback on this Masterclass from the Notion Mastery program, we decided to bundle up this replay and make it an entry-point into Notion Mastery live trainings. The two hour replay comes with a teamspace building kit.

In this workshop, we explore the core components of Databases, Views, and Dashboards and learn how to build dashboards from scratch, utilizing Notion’s templates, and mastering the art of designing component-driven workflows.

Templates are great. Building from excellent dashboard-building fundamentals with kits is better.

One of my clients watched this replay and told me, "If I had implemented your system from the beginning, it would have saved me so much time and headache." 🧠

Note: if you already have Notion Mastery access, you've got access to this masterclass already!

GET PRINCIPLES OF DASHBOARDING MASTERCLASS

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Back on YouTube

Speaking for myself, I find video editing uninteresting and bothersome. I enjoy sharing technical training on Notion, but the process makes me twitchy. I decided recently that I'm going to just start "going live" and recording and uploading the results. No edits, no intro fluff, no fancy studio, just raw "how-to" on technical stuff.

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With that in mind, I'm back to YouTube with a new video. Did you know you can use the new Formula Automations to auto-title your Journal pages?

SUBSCRIBE TO BEN'S YOUTUBE

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"Bluesky is more Twitter than X"

This quote above by our friend Joel Hooks rings really true. As an early (2008) user of Twitter, Bluesky feels like early Twitter for tech and web people. So, yep, we've joined the tech peoples' migration over to Bluesky. It's just so much more fun over there.

Complete with an open-source codebase, amazing API, and control over moderation and publishing (if you're daring enough to do the work), it's the place where technical-minded folks are having fun with online friends again.

You can follow us there if you like. Both of us have made the decision to cease publishing on X so that'll be the best place to follow and ask us public questions about Notion and other fun topics.

• ​@typeoneerror.com​
• ​@mariepoulin.com​

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Hope you have a great December. Be well.

— Ben & Marie @ Notion Mastery​

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