Not only are my book summaries now easier to navigate, but they’re also viewable without having to open a new page. Thankfully, that’s NOT an issue with Notion.Ī preview of “Sam’s Commonplace Book 2.0.”

This meant I had to add a “Back to Book Summaries” link to each note, which, as you can imagine, was time-consuming. The problem, though, was as it grew, and bugs began hurting the UX, it became harder to navigate.įor example, jumping from one book summary to another made it harder to return to the Table of Contents. The first iteration of my commonplace book. In it, I kept notes on books I read, courses I enrolled in, quotes I liked, and more. In fact, a few years ago, I began building one in Evernote (which I wrote about here). If you’re a longtime reader, you know that I’m a big advocate of having a commonplace book. “The purpose of the book is to record and organize these gems for later use in your life, in your business, in your writing, speaking, or whatever it is that you do.” “A commonplace book is a central resource or depository for ideas, quotes, anecdotes, observations and information you come across during your life and didactic pursuits,” writes author Ryan Holiday. Notion Use Case #1: Build a Commonplace Book

I’ll also show you how you can use Notion to get more organized in your personal and professional life, starting today. Today, to announce my move to Notion, I want to share my three favorite Notion use cases (#1 is my favorite). I recently moved my Commonplace Book-and the rest of my Evernote contents-to Notion and I must say, I am floored. And after much research, one solution came up, again and again, more than any other… So, I began researching alternatives to Evernote. Was Evernote no longer a viable option for note-taking? Was there a better solution on the market? My feeling aside, giving customers anything but a great user experience (UX) was unacceptable. Notes were disappearing in the browser, and when they weren’t, they were taking too long to load-my commonplace book was riddled with bugs.Īs a longtime Evernote user, it was a reality I wasn’t ready to accept. A few weeks ago, I started getting emails from readers telling me that my Commonplace Book wasn’t working correctly…

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