Working in Notion | Part 1
How I use Notion for journaling and knowledge management
I’ve written about using Typora — a markdown editor platform — for journaling, but I have recently defected to Notion for that purpose.
Actually, the earlier post was entitled Building A Zettelkasten In Typora, because I aspired to a ‘note box’ (or zettelcasten, in German) approach to journaling. In fact, though, I never really went through all the gyrations of zettelcastening, in part because it involves too much manual labor if you use basic markdown a la Typora. In reality, I fell back into a simpler, less involved sort of journaling.
In this initial post, I won’t be exploring all the features of Notion, such as tables, and relations. I will explore more of the Notion platform in later posts, where I will also explain how I am now using Notion as a work management tool, tracking projects, tasks, and associated project information.
Journaling in Typora
Here’s how I was journaling with markdown and Typora:
1 | I created a daily file in my journal folder, named like YYYY-MM-DD journal (which sorts in the appropriate way). During each day I would collect links, snippets, quotes, and capture passing ideas. I would tag entries, and also create markdown tasks. Here’s an image of one such journal file:
