Tools & Craft – Notion Blog

Thoughts on the future of work,
from the people and teams creating it.

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For Teams

How to set up systems for organizational learning for your startup

Organizational learning takes one person’s or one team’s learnings and codifies them for the rest of the team to benefit from. When this centralized knowledge is accessible by everyone, it helps the whole team level up.

Nate Martins

Marketing

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Inspiration

This branding framework made Netflix a household name

Try the template that Netflix used to differentiate themselves and build a memorable identity.

Andrea Lim

Marketing

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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

Product

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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.

Katsukiyo Nishi

General Manager APAC

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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