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✨ BIG NOTION ENERGY: Jerry Lorenzo | Founder, Fear of God ✨

First of all, you don’t have to use Notion to have Big Notion Energy. In fact, I have no idea if Jerry Lorenzo/Fear of God use Notion. But what I do know is that after listening to this Business of Fashion podcast, he definitely has it.

The ultimate goal with Fear of God is to build clothes that last and create style that transcends time, through the spirit of ‘American Luxury’. The brand is evolving authentically and its values seep through to everything from store (‘atmosphere’) ambience to production. Everything is intentional.

I’d definitely put Fear of God/brands like Fear of God who possess ‘Big Notion Energy’ on the ‘Dream Client’ list. Brands who are so feverishly ‘for the Culture’ and it seeps into everything they do, including their processes

Who else do you think has ‘BNE’?

✨ NEW Slack Triggers✨

Great news for Slack users! Wish Notion and Slack could ‘talk to each other to build better transparency in your team? Now they can

Notion has just launched Slack triggers based on changes in Notion database changes. Here are 5 Slack triggers to try today:

When person in ‘Assigned’ column changes, send to channel
When Priority is ‘High’, send to channel
When tasks are marked as ‘Complete’, send to channel
When tag is ‘Department X’, send to ‘X’ channel
When related to ‘Project X’, send to ‘Project X’ channel

Watch a demo below:

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✨Digital Merch✨

First of all, I’m obsessed with this! I love seeing Notion used for creative projects like this (quick plug to my course that teaches thisss).

Koromone is a Nigerian spoken word artist who’s just released Euphonious Musings her debut poetry album. She’s used Notion to build a landing page where you can find out more about her work and each piece. OBSESSED.

Explore the page →

When I first started out in the Notion world, I loved Notion to as a medium to create an experience ‘around the music’ (see Beyoncé & Channel Orange visual album templates). I had a dream of artists using Notion to support their launches - able to embed behind the scenes snippets to each piece - embedding voice notes or embellishing on words like I did in this poetry piece.

Digital merch, if you will. I’d love to see this become a trend for artists, potentially building a few myself! I could imagine immersive zines for album launches 🤤

Answer to last week’s poll

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nicole ♡

Apr 17·edited Apr 17

Ooh if your quiz is based on a future template for shared dashboards, I loved your date idea/scheduler one! Depending on your results, I've love to see something new in that vein. <3

(sorry for commenting so much!)

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