Tools & Craft – Notion Blog

Pioneers

Howard Rheingold on the past and present of virtual communities

Howard Rheingold is a writer and educator known for being one of the first thinkers to treat the internet as a social and cultural environment.

Devon Zuegel

Co-founder, Esmeralda Institute

Notion HQ

Notion is now in Japanese! みなさん、こんにちは！

We just launched Notion in Japanese! One more important step toward serving our global audience better.

西勝清

General Manager APAC

For Teams

How to fund your startup (with templates)

From self-funding to grants, here’s how to choose the right path for your startup. Use startup fundraising templates to stay organized and get the job done.

Alyssa Zacharias

Marketing

For Teams

3 secrets of high-performing virtual teams

Many existing teamwork models are based on teams that interact in person at least some of the time. And that’s what messes with efforts to work well remotely — we’re taking in-person strategies and bringing them into the virtual world.

Nate Martins

Marketing

For Teams

Yes, your startup needs process documentation. Here's how to do it (with examples)

A startup’s job is to grow, which it can’t do successfully without a codified and simple-to-use process documentation system.

Nate Martins

Marketing

Tech

Herding elephants: Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion

This months-long project migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet — an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come.

Garrett Fidalgo

Infrastructure Technical Lead

Inspiration

7 tools we built on Notion instead of buying

At Notion, we use Notion for everything — here are 7 custom tools we built to replace other software, complete with templates your team can use.

Andrea Lim

Marketing

For Teams

10 best Chrome extensions to level up your team's productivity

Browser distractions can have a ripple effect on company-wide productivity. The right Chrome extensions can help you and your team curb the most distracting parts of the web. We’ve pulled together a list of the best Chrome extensions for productivity to keep your team focused.

Nate Martins

Marketing

For Teams

Your institutional knowledge is your superpower: here's how to capture and codify it

Working to catalog and preserve institutional knowledge to make it easily available for your team takes a little time and effort. But by taking it on, you can save money, improve collaboration, and get an edge on the competition.

Nate Martins

Marketing

Inspiration

This Vision to Values template helped LinkedIn stay on course as it grew

Few teams actually codify why they're doing what they're doing. Former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner developed this template to help companies do exactly this.

Andrea Lim

Marketing

Capture

Find

Automate

Howard Rheingold on the past and present of virtual communities

Notion is now in Japanese! みなさん、こんにちは！

How to fund your startup (with templates)

3 secrets of high-performing virtual teams

Yes, your startup needs process documentation. Here's how to do it (with examples)

Herding elephants: Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion

7 tools we built on Notion instead of buying

10 best Chrome extensions to level up your team's productivity

Your institutional knowledge is your superpower: here's how to capture and codify it

This Vision to Values template helped LinkedIn stay on course as it grew