If you’ve been around here for a while, you won’t be surprised we’re covering Notion just three weeks into our productivity newsletter. Notion continues to be one of the top searched terms on Product Hunt — many discovered it on our platform long before the startup reached decacorn status. And our community is packed with Notion productivity proponents. Probably because it really does put the "all" in "all-in-one" tool, as you'll see from the wide range of tips in this newsletter. So let's dive in. Not a Notion user? Let us know what you want us to cover next. We'll start with another nugget just for you, too... |
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2 minutes in the community |
Discussion: How do you use ChatGPT to boost your daily efficiency? |
See how others in the Product Hunt community say they use ChatGPT to be more efficient. Here's one of our favorites: "If you want to study a certain book or article seriously, and want to test your learning effect after studying, then you can ask chatGPT to give you a test to test it. For example, if you read a paper and want to know whether you fully understand the paper, you can ask chatGPT to ask you 10 questions about this paper." - Amy Qin |
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10 products in 10 minutes |
We put together ten of the community's latest, favorite tools and templates to help you move quicker in Notion. Make sure to follow these Notion makers too so you can find out when they launch more productivity resources. |
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For marketers and creators: You probably know that you can manage your content in Notion, but you might not realize you’re still only cracking the surface until you check out the ContentOS template. It sets up content creators through the entire creation process, from calendar planning to tracking metrics. | Follow the maker: @easlo |
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For custom commands: Having slash commands at your fingertips is one of the best tech-enabled productivity hacks. Slashy takes Notion's slash commands up a notch with an open-souce extension to create custom commands for Notion. Pre-packaged plugins including drawings and video & audio recordings (just type "/record"). | Follow the maker: @alyssaxuu |
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For Twitter threads: Got long form content? Great, you’ve got yourself a thread too. Sidebird makes it super simple to turn any Notion page into a Twitter thread with a couple of clicks. | Follow the maker: @_justlilian |
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For budgeting: Another thorough creation by Notion maker, @easlo. Notion Finance Tracker packs in a ton of features that you might expect from a personal finance app, but all in Notion. That includes dashboards, budgeting, and subscription tracking with the flexibility of customizing expense categories and goals. |
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For notes: With any tool, you sacrifice time or risk getting disorganized when you have to login and find your place. Notability is an AI chatbot that organizes your notes when you send them through Telegram. It figures out where to put them in Notion like a human assistant would. | Follow the makers: @igorzij, @oleh_kopyl |
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For SEO writing: Writing SEO content is serious work. There’s a ton to consider from your keyword density and placement to readability. There are plenty of tools for this but Notion SEO tries to make it easier for you with a browser extension that analyzes your Notion content in the background. See how your content is stacking up against SEO best practices at glance. | Follow the maker: @shivam1337 |
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For project management: Notion Standup makes it easier to follow what's going on with your projects without having to import tasks to a separate project management system. Get daily standup reports in email, Slack, and more to stay up to date on your team's tasks. | Follow the makers: @hey_fk and @hellokfk |
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For new startups: Hey, new founder. This bundle of Notion Startup Templates hopes to save you time and money with templates all based on best practices for starting up your business. That covers everything from templates to help you think through your roadmap to marketing personas. | Follow the makers: @maximilian_fleitmann, @sina_sadegh |
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For students: This free StudentHub+ template helps you organize your calendar, to-dos, and classes. The makers also built the tool because they understand how difficult it is to adopt a new productivity tool and figure out where to start. The template is built to help you learn how to use advanced Notion features like databases, relations, widgets, and iOS shortcuts. | Follow the maker: @danielxli of Plus |
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Notion tips and tricks from around the web that caught our eye: |
We talked about how to embed your own data visualizations into Notion, but did you know you could quickly create a pie graph of other public datasets with Notion AI? @michal_creates, a Notion guru who shares daily Notion tips and tricks, shows how. |
Notion AI is already a great time saver but this tweet tip from @itsmoul takes it to another level
“Notion AI is more than just the drop down.
Use /custom to open the box where you can summarise the page, note down action items and even list down main points from the page
This is useful for MoMs, research and user feedback.” |
Have an ever-growing database? It can be a pain to edit entries, especially when you have a list of them to edit. This YouTube video from Tasia Malone demonstrates a quick tip to save time by bulk editing databases. |
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Notion AI is here, and while we could put together a huge list of hacks and tips, the Notion team has put together a great overview of how one might use Notion AI to start, from pulling action items from a meeting to translating content. If you're new to AI writing tools, we recommended you start there. |
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