Working in Notion | Part 2

The intersection of journaling and work management

A great deal of my work is about writing, which falls into two sorts:

1. Writing posts (like this) and newsletter issues, and
2. Writing technology reports (like the recent Workboards report, in concert with Gigaom).

The workflow involved with these two sorts of writing are quite distinct. The former is an outgrowth of the Notion journaling I do on a nearly daily basis, a process I described at some length in Working in Notion | Part 1. The longer-format and more deeply researched reports are part of a quite different process.

In this post, I will outline how I am using Notion to create and manage posts like this one integrated with my daily journaling. I recommend that readers might want to revisit the Part 1 post, especially if they aren’t familiar with Notion.

Summary of Journaling in Notion

The summary is this:

1. I manage my journal in Notion as a directory of date-stamped pages, like 2021–01–08 journal. (I also journal calls, meetings, and longer notes in a similar way in the same journal, like 2021–01–08 call with Carlos.)
2. Each day, I cut and paste snippets from the web in the day’s journal page. I extensively rely on linking to tag pages (what I had called topics pages), taking advantage of Notion’s backlinks capability. In that way, I can tag a section of my…