more soulful projects? cuter callout blocks, 🧨Product Hunt Launch🧨 + british vogue

Hi hi! 

It's Frances from The Notion Bar back again sprinkling your inbox with musings on Notion & life

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First thing's first, I launched my journal on Product Hunt today & would love your support here 🙏🏾

Never knew building a journal would be such a vulnerable project - the fact that 342+ of you are using it blows my mind. Thank you for all you kind feedback & support

If this week was a GIF, it would be:

The law of attraction has truly been attracting . I'm opting out of hardcore hustle culture and opting into going with the flow

Mini-Journal Update:

Lots of ideas brewing this month - can't wait for it all to come into Fruition & share with you all!

Here's what's on my mind:

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I *really* want to start seeing more culture-based @NotionHQ projects this year Like, I get it, habit/goal trackers etc are cool but the community is saturated with these imo Notion is *so much more* - it's a great way to share stuff people connect emotionally with

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It's @notionhq but quite literally *make it fashion* I love doing 'content flips' of things that inspire me! I was so inspired by the new amazing @britishvogue cover celebrating black models, that I turned it into a Notion template Download: https://t.co/CqrQYv0R2v #notiontwt https://t.co/9SQgDnjW2Y

The Notion community is amazing, however I feel like the community groups are starting to fill up with 'habit trackers' and 'task managers'.

Notion is soooo much more than that - this year, I'd love to see more projects based around pop-culture/things that inspire us like fashion or music. For example, I built this template based on British Vogue's new cover celebrating black models 👇🏾

Some other cool things!

New Template

I flipped British Vogue's new cover into a Notion template with a database for each model. You can download and re-use this for a team profile page - if you do use it, I'd love to see!

If you'd like to be an affiliate for any of my templates (who doesn't loveee passive income), you can sign up here

Announcements

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Excited to be speaking at @NotionHQ's Block x Block conference - what a great line up 🧨 See you there! blockbyblock.notion.com/speakers

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Notion @NotionHQ

"We shape our tools, thereafter our tools shape us.” Today, two new leaders join Notion to put this in practice! Together, Madhu & Bertie will grow our product, comms and brand: building better tools and telling the stories of people who shape them 🧰💌 notion.so/blog/new-chief…

notion.soIntroducing Madhu Muthukumar & Bertie Thomson, our new Chief Product Officer and Chief Communications and Creative OfficerWe’re on a huge and difficult mission together to make toolmaking ubiquitous. Which is why I’m so excited to introduce two new leaders who will be uniquely helpful on this journey.

Leading a workshop today for Babes on Waves biz club!

New Video

Notion Tip

Transform your callout blocks!!

What I've been watching:

So easy to track in my journal 😍 Do we have any shows in common? What should I watch next? Reply to this email!

Listen

• Onipa - Chicken No Dey Fly - I LOVE listening to Afrobeat when I work

• Competition - Amber Mark - just listen, trust me!

Cool Notion Tweets from the Community

Curi @ctwhome

@NotionHQ Will be possible to move blocks inside simple tables in notion? That would crack my daily routine all organize everything on a whole new level! Here is a mockup

Karima Abdou @KarimaAbdou_

@NotionHQ is there a way to remove/hide the calculate row at the bottom of tables? Thanks!

Trendz + Predictions

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🧨 Prediction: This year, @NotionHQ will start to seep outside the 'typical' tech crowd and we will get a larger variety of products Influencer templates to sell will be a thing (& I'll hopefully partner to build some)

Jobz

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Thanks for reading!

I'd love to see how you're all remixing the templates, tweet me or tag me on Instagram  (@thenotionbar) and I'll share your creations with the world!

If you have any template ideas or want to collab on something, reply to this!

If you are interested in Notion coaching/consulting - book a call! 

Looking forward to creating more magical things with you this year!

Chat soon! 

Frances Odera Matthews

Founder of The Notion Bar & Certified Notion Consultant (✨Artiste✨)