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✨The stationery to Notion pipeline✨
Whew, the stationery-hoarder to Notion-obsessed pipeline is real. I've never resonated with a tweet more.
I was 100% the girl with a folder and different coloured post-it notes for everything back in the day, but now I am the girl with different coloured callout boxes and toggles for everything.
At the core of it, I think it’s adding some joy/play into the productivity process, whatever that may look like to you. I fully support a a partially digital versus analog lifestyle. Sometimes the quickest way to get something out of your head is to stick it on a post-it note somewhere. Ain’t nothing wrong with that ✨
✨ Notion for home brew✨
Is something that deserves a Notion workspace, it's home brewing. Home brewing is literally a science. Back in college, there was literally a whole chemistry course dedicated to it (a few of my friends took it) and I can confirm that it can be as detailed as the screenshots look above. I know there are a lot of home brew enthusiasts that would probably benefit from some kind of Notion based home brewing community inspired by the tweet above!
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