This week on the Coffee & Code Cast, Kyle got a new ARM M1 MacBook Pro, Zach has upgraded to Big Sur and we discuss that a little bit and we deep dive into personal organization tool Notion and how Kyle has been using it to wrangle his digital life.

Digital Organization

How do you organize your digital life?

Files

Read later items

Tasks

Notes

Etc

Disparate Services

Pocket

Read later.

SimpleNote

Notebook

Tagged with markdown formatting

Todoist

Todo lists

Recently: project boards

Google Docs

Long form writing

Formatted documents

Show Notes for podcast

Google Sheets

Hiking backpack list

New home finance tracking

Old school budget

Google Drive & Dropbox

Cloud synced storage of common or important files

Dropbox

Icloud

Notion

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Notion is an application that provides components such as databases, kanban boards, wikis, calendars and reminders. Users can connect these components to create their own systems for knowledge management, note taking, data management, project management, among others. These components and systems can be used individually, or in collaboration with others. ~ Wikipedia

Your digital brain

Everything all in one place

A way to write that doesn't get in your way

Markdown support

WSIWIG support

Shortcuts

Databases (What's a database?)

Table, List, Board, Calendar, Gallery or Timeline

Todo list

Notebooks

Meetings

Lists (Reading, Podcasts, Books, Articles)

Sorting, filtering, limiting

Templates

Equations

Sharing

Share with specific people

Custom levels of roles

Edit

View

Share with the public / get a public url

Examples

House purchase

Tasks

Spend tracking for purchases

Calendar of events

Inspiration board

HQs or Dashboards

Work

Personal

Many have one or school, or specific projects

Cons

Not everything is perfect

No E2E encryption

No offline mode (yet)

No API (yet)

Credits

Artwork: Gentle Giant