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Marie Poulin

Creator of Notion Mastery, Co-Founder of Oki Doki

Designing workflows that work for our weird and unique needs • Exploring Business with Notion • Capacity Planning • Energy Management • ADHD • Permaculture • Subscribe below!

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The complexity of simplicity

The complexity of simplicity What happens when we have to design systems that work for many different brains? Hey Reader, As I was beginning to plan and design our new raised garden beds, I asked my husband out of curiosity, "How would you number these garden beds?" Which ultimately led to an unexpected and interesting discussion around complexity and assumptions. Benjamin Borowski👨🚒 @typeoneerror Funny exercise: Assuming I am standing on my porch, how would you number these beds 1-4?...

4 days ago • 2 min read

Formula Debugging Mode If you've taken my Formula Fundamentals course (and if you haven't, hit reply and ask me for a 20% off coupon!), you'll probably be aware that one of the biggest gotchas with Formulas 2.0 is that lists are displayed without "brackets" in the formula editor. This means that if you write a list in a formula like: [1, 2, 3, 4] and a list with a sub-list like: [1, [2, 3], 4] They are both displayed in table view outputs and the formula editor as "1, 2, 3, 4". We can't...

4 days ago • 1 min read

Formulas 2.0 Updates Some awesome new helper functions shipped this past week in Notion Formulas 2.0. I just finished adding them to the Formulas Library in the Notion Mastery course and am adding some new stuff to the Formula Fundamentals curriculum this week. To start we have the new today() function. It's basically like now() but without a time! Super handy for comparing dates. Previously we had to do a bit of extra work to remove times from dates. Next up we have two new helpers that work...

25 days ago • 1 min read

Notion, Learning, and ADHD What I've learned about learning. Hey Reader, In this newsletter I'm sharing some thoughts on Learning, Notion, and ADHD. Since getting my ADHD diagnosis 4ish years ago, I've become acutely aware of some of my own unique challenges when it comes to both learning and creating. As a teacher, I'm also deeply motivated to understand how different people learn, so I can create courses that truly promote helpful change. I know that how I learn is not how everyone else...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

My Experience with Great Decisions Course and Notion I recently participated in Art of Accomplishment's Great Decisions Course with Marie. In developing principles through which we make decisions with ease, I landed on ones that have rapidly changed my life. I shared a bit of the process and how Notion enables creative exploration on the blog. Question for you, dear reader: How has Notion emboldened your creative pursuits? Feel free to hit reply and let me know. READ THE ARTICLE AMA with...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Becoming a better gardener with ChatGPT I didn't expect this to be such a hot take... Hey Reader, Earlier this week I started sharing some of my experiments with using ChatGPT for Gardening. I was pretty blown away that I was able to upload maps of my yard, lists of vegetables, and a rough garden bed design and have ChatGPT give me detailed recommendations (and cautions) for how to organize the garden beds. It was able to factor in shadows from the trellis, the needs of different vegetables,...

2 months ago • 1 min read

Merge CSV Auto-Relations Last week we got an early look at Notion's new Home and My Tasks features. This week I'm sharing a video on how auto-Relations work with Notion's CSV import feature. This is one that shipped earlier this year, but I don't think many people know about this one. Great stuff! WATCH THE VIDEO Feature Roundup I also included this in my latest blog rounding up a bunch of small features that Notion's shipped over the last few months. What's your favorite? Personally I'm in...

2 months ago • 1 min read

Home and My Tasks Yesterday Notion began shipping the Home feature (rolling out over the next couple months), a new simple dashboard for your workspaces that features a series of lightly customizable widgets. It's pretty basic so far, but speaks to a desire to bring more aggregated information to you without custom building. The "Recently visited" widget and the time-dependent greeting The biggest win in this feature is the new My Tasks widget. This allows you to turn any database that has...

2 months ago • 1 min read

Life is a lab. Last month was all about experiments in podcasting workflow automation. Hey Reader, Last month I spent some time running experiments in automation, specifically in our podcasting workflow. After years of thinking about it, my husband and I finally launched a Podcast (Grief & Pizza) last month. Recording the episodes is the easy part; we hop into Riverside.fm, enter the "Studio," and hit the record button. But what about all the steps before recording the episode... and...

3 months ago • 2 min read

Happy New Year Welcoming in the year of emergence and creative expression. Hey Reader, Every year I like to take a few weeks to slow down and shift toward a deep reflection process, pulling together some highlights (and lowlights!) from the year. I like to reflect on milestones, lessons learned, challenges faced, what brought joy, and how my actions were (or were not) in alignment with intentions that may have been set the year before. I don't do resolutions, but I do love THEMES. I've been...

3 months ago • 2 min read
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