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Making @NotionHQ . Previously design + product @Stripe , @Asana , built startups. Aspiring k-pop idol.
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I finally have a portfolio after all these years. Made in
@NotionHQ
of course 💖
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Long time coming since the start of the vision for Home in 2022. This one took a while, but it’s here now!
Welcome Home 💛
Notion Home: a space where your most relevant work and knowledge come together 🏠
Easily jump back into active documents and projects, view calendar events, see assigned tasks, and pin your favorite databases for easy access.
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I updated my website, for fun!
Less words. Cleaner type.
Shows last check-in from Swarm with privacy for residential.
Fully localized in 3 languages (including time and places).
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First ship at Notion — We made Search smarter, snappier, and sleeker. It takes a little effort to fine tune every detail at the last mile, but well worth it to make things feel great and raise our bar.
🔍 Introducing: search that WORKS.
- Faster
- More accurate results
- Advanced filtering & sorting
2020's gonna be a good year folks. Learn more about new & improved Quick Find here:
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Apple bundled new typefaces from
@commercialtype
with the Pages update. Hunt for them in the templates.
So far I found: Druk, Druk Wide, Graphik, Publico Headline, Publico Text, Canela.
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I feel we should call ourselves Software designers.
We design the conceptual models, the view structures, to how things work and behave, how they feel, to the nouns and verbs and color values. Our job is to fit together every puzzle in the simplest way possible.
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The best systems in our world are composed of few parts and few simple rules that give rise to maximum freedom, possibilities, complexities, while keeping things as intuitive and obvious as possible.
Designing software is no different.
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We just made Notion free for personal use, so anyone could organize their thoughts with no limits!
With this launch, we've also:
📦 Made setting up Notion a lot easier
📤 Clearer sharing experience for everyone
🌐 Allow editing on public pages
🔗 Team invite links
And more!
🤘 Starting today, Notion is free for personal use.
We used to have a storage limit on our free plan, but no more! Everyone should have access to our tools to create what they need.
Write, plan, and get organized at .
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Now you can:
• Quickly add new sub-tasks & any related pages, in one go.
• See & edit their status, title, people assigned directly.
• Customize which properties to show up.
Enjoy more speedy & simpler workflows! 🏎
Relations are a powerful way to link database content — useful for task tracking and project management ☑️
Now, you can choose to display them in a dedicated section at the top of a page. Bonus: edit directly from there!
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I used to struggle with being a “master of none,” until I realized it’s the best thing I got.
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We took some time to get it feel good, but it’s here! Having made Timeline-like features throughout my career, this one is probably the most flexible and detailed iteration yet.
Still more to come! ✨
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Pocket Critterpedia, made in
@NotionHQ
• 🦋 See a live list of catchable fish & bugs, in your current time
• 🔍 Browse all critters this month or all time
• 😎 Duplicate to create your own views
#AnimalCrossing
#ACNH
Get it →
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People with agency, taste, and a vision.
They unblock decisions, make people move towards a shared ideal.
They aren’t dictators, they listen and seek ultimate truths.
They don’t compromise for mediocrity, they paint a picture for others to challenge themselves to greatness.
What is the bottleneck to big tech companies getting more done?
I don't think it is bureaucracy or internal coordination. I think it is "lieutenants", people with agency who want to ship
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A look into our design philosophy and process. Hope you enjoy it!
Kudos to
@martin_plural
for helping with our first design blog post ✨
The feature is new, but the idea isn't.
Computing pioneer Ted Nelson included "transclusion" as a feature of Project Xanadu, his hypertext model founded in 1960.
To learn more about our design process, read this new post from the Notion Blog:
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I reached out to Ivan in 2018, after I dragged some text into a table, and it became a page.
This meant Notion could model any software, with few simple concepts. It gives anyone freedom to break the confines of apps, and mold their own tools.
100M people get it now. 💛
Last week,
@NotionHQ
passed 100M users!
I found the photo I took after we reached 1000 users.
And I still recall the day when we passed 1M in 2020 right before covid.
I feel grateful, introspective. Looking back, there's so much learning, yet much remains unchanged...
1/n
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Stages of designing:
1. Design for yourself — For the craft, curiosity, full internal realization
2. Design for someone — To make something great for a group of people & a purpose
3. Design for everyone — To shift how most people think with simple timeless powerful concepts
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Our first step to make "databases" easy to set up and use, not just for technical people, but for everyone. Enjoy and tell your friends💛
Introducing: BETTER DATABASES!
🆕 Discover and switch views with tabs
🆕 Apply quick filters in just 2-3 clicks
🆕 Recreate existing views instantly
And way more:
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I’m super shy super shy 🙈
but I love to chat about making stuff
Dec 11 ✨
@NotionHQ
SF — I'm speaking with a stellar panel of designers in AI about metaphors, ideas, and design principles for AI and what they're up to.
Featuring:
@ryolu_
at Notion ✏️
@Wattenberger
at Adept 👾
@omarlee
at Slack 💬
@AdamStorr
at Hex 🪄
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Looking for a friend to join me 🤲
😓 Designer Twitter I need help!
As you know
@NotionHQ
is tiny but has a lot to build! We need 1 prod, 1 visual designer to join
@ryolu_
@coryetzkorn
& me in SF
Recs? RTs? If you like Notion this is the best help to make it better!
For visual designers:
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Some new stuff we added to Notion recently:
• Icons & Reactions
• Progress bar & ring visualization
• Default database templates
• Single-select Relations
• Status aggregation
• Image align
And these are just teasers to what’s coming next 😇
Enjoy 💛
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Notion just got a little better for students, scientists, academics, and engineers! 👩🏻🏫👨🏼💻🧑🏾🔬
...or you could make WordArt out of LaTeX🕺
Inline math equations have been a top feature request for us for quite some time. They're finally here!
Render beautifully formatted equations in-line with your text, using the full capability of the KaTeX library 🧮
Guide & FAQs here:
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Map and connect your thoughts in flow, without leaving the keyboard.
Make information more discoverable for your team, with zero effort.
And more tools for you to imagine & unlock new possibilities.
Hope y’all like it. 💛
👀 Backlinks are finally here!!
Now whenever you make a link to another page, a backlink is created automagically, so you can see the connections between your thoughts & pages.
And there's lots of new shortcuts to [[link]] and +create pages as you type.
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Happiest day of 2022.
Cron brings in a new lens of Time through a beautifully crafted app, and a super talented team (and my Swiss brother
@raphaelschaad
) to solve the hardest software problem — How do we create a tool that feels so good like Cron, yet so flexible like Notion?
Couldn't be happier to announce that
@Cron
has been acquired by
@NotionHQ
🥳
→ Read from
@raphaelschaad
about the exciting road ahead:
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When we say we’ll let the team know of your feedback and add your vote, we mean it.
Feedback is a 🎁
So using your feedback as inspiration, our engineers embarked on a one-week mission to improve the little details in Notion.
The result? 8 new features 👇 And there's more to come!
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We see AI not as gimmicks, but genuinely useful tools to help humans write better, think wider, get answers faster.
And we are just getting started. ✨
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We’re making editing, navigation, & capture faster and more ergonomic. More to come for Notion on iOS, iPadOS and Android. 🔭
We have big dreams for our mobile apps! Smooth & speedy is the goal.
The new 🧰 TOOLBAR 🧰 is a big step in that direction, completely rebuilt from the ground up. It recommends formatting options dynamically, based on the content you're working with:
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Notion just launched in Japan! I chatted with
@cultibase
about how we were able to design and build Notion with a lean team.
English translation:
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Always aim for greatness, and then correctness. If a team keeps talking about how to do things in the “right” way, they will rid themselves of the possibility of being great. Humans are where we are today, because we explored.
首先是优秀，其次才是合理、正确... 一个一直讨论合理、正确的团队，没有成为优秀的可能性。因为他们忘了，人类能走到今天，靠的是探索。
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for any system –
a simple one is robust & flexible,
a complex one is fragile & rigid.
keeping things simple on the surface (feels simple) & beneath (works simple), while achieving the intended result, makes a better system.
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Gave an intro to Design & Prototyping to a few high school students in the US and China. A little jealous of how much tools and resources they have now, and very hopeful of the future 💛
Slides 👇
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I went on Ridd’s design podcast to chat about designing software concepts & systems
(Not design systems)
First time doing this, sorry for the rambling 🫡
Have you ever read a job description that lists “systems thinking” as a desired trait?
And you think “ya I check that box”… but there’s also this little part of you that wonders what they really mean?
Same.
But after chatting with
@ryolu_
I think I'm starting to get it 👇
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We’re still far away from realizing our mission to unlock the power of software toolmaking for any person and teams on the planet. Come join us.
Gm!
Today
@NotionHQ
is announcing $275M in new funding led by Coatue &
@sequoia
, with participation from
@Base10Partners
@ShineCapitalNYC
You can read details here:
But in this thread, I want to bring it back to why we're here & where we're headed.
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Notion is great for organizing your life, & collaborating with teammates at work. Now you can access ALL your stuff without logging in and out! 💞
Using Notion with multiple emails was a pain. Constantly logging out and logging back in just to get to the right content was 🤬
Now you can quickly switch between all your workspaces and accounts in one place 🥰
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New on iOS, right from your Home Screen:
🐰 Hop to places with Recents & Favorites
✏️ Jot down new ideas with Quick Add
🖼 Decorate your phone with Notion pages
Enjoy!
Notion widgets for iPhone are here! Quickly get to the page you need, right from your home screen.
🟥 Pin some of your "favorited" pages
🟨 See the pages you visited most recently
🟦 Add a page widget, complete with icon & cover
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Wow… We’re in K-pop
@NotionHQ
!!
KEY 키 The 2nd Mini Album <Good & Great> | Schedule Release
〖Good & Great - The 2nd Mini Album〗
➫ 2023.09.11 6PM (KST)
#KEY
#키
#SHINee
#샤이니
#Good_and_Great
#KEY_Good_and_Great
#Link_in_Video
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It’s the same thing, in different abstractions.
The more you see and think as whole, the easier it gets.
"engineering" and "design" are not jobs or disciplines. they are MINDSETs
the earlier u internalize this and recognize how to flow between them, or even how to channel the mythical hybrid fugue state, the powerful u can b
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All-new Grouping makes it easy to recreate common app views with Notion databases. In just a few clicks, build:
- Swimlane board by Assignee and Priority
- Timeline by Project relation
- Tasks by Week
- KRs by Objectives
- Docs by Creator
The possibilities are endless! Enjoy 🥰
There's a new 🔧 in your 🧰 to help you be more productive with databases.
Click the GROUP button in your Tables, Timelines, Lists & Galleries to visually organize your content by any property.
Hide the groups you don't need with the toggles to the left!
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No more scavenger hunts for the right pages to find what you need.
Instant access to your team’s collective knowledge & your second brain, now just an ask away. ✨
What if… you could talk to your workspace?
Meet Q&A, Notion AI’s newest superpower.
Join the beta:
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Q&A helped me find the full version of this. I was more wordy back then, but the vision hasn't changed.
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Stripe Terminal docs are live. Try and see what’s possible at the demo booths at
#StripeSessions
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Find answers to every question, from all connected knowledge.
✓ Notion ✓ Slack ✓ Drive ✓ ⋯ 🌎
Incoming!🚨 Your last ever emergency ding 🔔
Introducing Notion AI connectors. You can now pull knowledge directly from your company Slack—all without leaving your current flow state.
Less toggling, fewer tools. Slack rolling out today, Google Drive and others coming soon 👀
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When changing things, need to give more back.
@figma
UI3 gets us an inspector that shifts around unpredictably, with hidden numbers & controls, unusual icon choices... Changes made to simplify the look of the tool, rather than sticking to improving the tool itself for its users.
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Designing AI is like taming a beast in a black box. It can be incredibly helpful, valuable, powerful, but people don’t know what it could do for them, are skeptical, worried, even scared to get in. Chat helped, but it isn’t the full answer.
Join us for ideas on AI toolmaking✨
Are you wondering how to design for AI? (It's weird/fun!)
Come to
@NotionHQ
SF on Dec 11. Our homeboys
@thesephist
+
@ryolu_
will host a panel on AI design tips/principles they learned so far
With
@Wattenberger
Adept
@omarlee
Slack
@AdamStorr
Hex
Link:
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Tiny touches make all the difference:
UI ceding to the content.
Pinning the current page in sidebar at the same place so you know where you are.
Leverage the most universal search discovery path, but give users the choice on which shortcut to use.
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I do my work by instinct and play. A muddy space becomes clearer as you try many ideas, then reason comes in at last to vet out the best. More chances to come up with something great. 😊
Product people who pooh-pooh instinct would experience extreme cognitive dissonance if they realized how many iconic products they use regularly were built by instinct.
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Small but game changing, a page in your Notion workspace can now be your home on the internet.
no longer points to an error 😋
"What's the link to your site?"
"Oh it's acmedesign dot notion dot site slash dd5a6abe47444a53b7170afd67942d77"
🙅🏾♂️🙅🏼🙅🏻♀️
Now for folks with paid plans, you can set a public home page like !
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Can’t wait to see what our users and partners create! 🤩
Hello, Notinos. We're excited to share that a public beta of the API is launching early next year 🎊
You've been waiting a long time, so we wanna get this right, and nail the functionality you want most! Sign up below and follow
@NotionAPI
for updates.
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The default is to add, lands you in mediocrity.
The art lies in subtract and multiply. In unifying things that should’ve been the same.
The single most important thing I have learned about software development over my career is that if you do not aggressively fight complexity, it will eat you alive.
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One more piece for toolmaking 🧩
beautifully crafted by
@KenChenDesign
& team
Sound ON 🔉 Charts → Out now
Turn any database into a chart with just one click — Visualize anything you track, monitor progress, and add a little beauty to your pages. 📊
Get started today at
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A big step towards a stronger collaboration layer in Notion, elegantly done by
@alhyunsoo
and team ✨
💬 Introducing: better comments!!
See every comment on a page at a glance, and respond to any comment thread — all consolidated in your new right-hand sidebar.
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Our first step for useful AI in Notion databases. Use AI autofill to populate your project summaries, hashtags, or translations, and keep them auto-updated as you edit your pages.
Possibilities are limitless! 🪄
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