Notion has been helpful to me in organizing and offloading my thoughts on what articles I’d like to write and features I’d like to add for this blog. My articles usually start with a random thought and I’ll use that as the title for a card in my “Blog Posts” Notion board and possibly add some brief notes.
How I use Notion
Notion provides a customizable set of attributes, called “properties”, that are specific to a “database”. These attributes can, in turn, be used to create Kanban-style boards. I mostly use a board whose columns are controlled my custom “Status” property and which is set to automatically sort each column by oldest to most recent update. You can also control what shows up on the cards. I have it set up to show Name, the list of Tags I’ve assigned, and the Excerpt. The latter two Notion hides...
