“This is the only single setup I've been using for quite some time now. The cozy theme keeps it simple & easy to navigate & most of essential stuff is on main page so I never end up spending too much time planning.”
“So I built a Muslim Life OS in Notion—a complete personal management system designed to help Muslims organize their lives with greater clarity, intention, and consistency.”
“Like a lot of you, my Notion workspace used to be a graveyard for random browser bookmarks that I swore I’d read later. Half of them ended up behind paywalls, broken links, or turned into messy web clippings that completely broke my database formatting.”
“Obsidian gives you folders, YAML and plugins; Notion gives you databases, relations, views, permissions, API conventions and synchronisation problems.”
“I also have a rule that I can’t redesign the workspace until I’ve completed one real action from it. Otherwise Notion quietly becomes the project instead of supporting the project.”
“Its databases, properties, relations, views, tasks, calendar integrations and API/MCP support seem like they could give me a more standardized foundation without having to design everything myself.”
“and you're right about the ai prompts being annoying, they pop up everywhere and slow things down. disabling them is worth it just for cleaner interface.”
“I have heard that disabling the Notion AI Features helps speed up the instance, as well as remove all the extremely annoying AI features that are placed infront of old features to try and get you to constantly click on it accidently.”
“notion's automations are weirdly siloed like that, a bot-triggered edit won't cascade into another bot's trigger, which makes zero sense until you realize they're trying to prevent infinite loops.”
“So I have a Notion page where I record all my Revenues, Expenses, Payables, Receivables, Bank account balances, Investments etc.. It's all done manually.. Like I update all my income/expenses and the balance at the end of each day..”
“It would be very useful to have the ability to mark up images directly within Notion. Basic tools such as freehand drawing, highlighting, arrows, shapes, and text boxes would allow users to annotate screenshots and images without having to edit them in another application first.”
“It took me a while to make this decision because I didn’t want to spend the money, but once I had access to automations and graphs I realized I was wasting a lot of my (and my team’s) time by not paying the plus plan.”
“Implement a proper api that works. Specially slowing large exports and imports back into Notion. At the moment the only export is fine for small backups, but imports next to impossible.”
“I would suggest a different approach. One database of all the items you might pack. It links to a separate database for types of trips (day trip, business, overnight, camping, etc.) these two databases represent your baseline defaults.”
“Building the workspace was a significant time investment, but that investment paid for itself many times over before we finished our first season inside Notion.”
“Unfortunately, I have too much stuff in Notion, and subscribing to another app would take me a full week just to get used to it, so I'll have to think about it”
“I use Obsidian as quick capture and note taking but for others like journal, personal space, code saving and other's, I use Notion alot, I love the database and tweaking it with formulas and button(never spent money on the app). I've tried anytype, self host AFFiNE, appflowy and even memotron web app, but none have the main use I have for Notion.”
“I checked the status page today (notion-status.com): no incident posted for this. Notion does post MCP incidents, there was one on August 5 titled "Notion MCP connections are having auth issues", resolved the same day, so this wave going unlisted is notable.”
“Create a view of the database and select the feed type. And then that will show the content of each page in the database. If you have a lot of pages in the database it will be quite long but thankfully notion shortens each page content in the feed view and you just have to select view more to see all the content in a specific page.”
“I have Notion AI (vs the standard pay plan) and it was just "OK' for what I needed. It seemed like when I asked it to build things for me, it took 5x longer than it should have, mainly because what it put together was never quite right. I usually ended up giving up.”
“That error pops up when the tool signature changes, even slightly, and Notion's paranoid about it until an admin signs off again. Annoying that it works fine in Agents but not where you need it.”
“Hi, I used Notion a long time ago (4+ years ago) to help me organize my life for short term (daily) tasks and long terms (life goals) tasks. However I got away from it after some time and went with a more basic approach, which was less organized but more simple.”
“Claude was able to integrate directly w/ Notion and performed miracles. Complete system wide structural changes in minutes. I was able to test and try ideas, change my mind and Claude would just make it happen again and again.”
“But the game dev studio and it's first project - I'm fucking mind-blown by what it's built. Even better, as I build and update GPT, it will go through and check off my tasks as complete, mark the ones I'm actively working on as WIP, etc.... I don't even have to manage my Notion DBs lol.”