Tools & Craft – Notion Blog

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

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Tech

Creating the Notion API

The ability to access Notion content through an API is one of the top requested features from our users. Learn about how we designed our REST API to meet the challenge of preserving the flexibility and expressivity of Notion’s data model.

Alicia Liu

Engineering

Notion HQ

Introducing Madhu Muthukumar & Bertie Thomson, our new Chief Product Officer and Chief Communications and Creative Officer

We’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.

Ivan Zhao

Co-founder & CEO

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For Teams

A pre-mortem template to help your team identify problems before they happen

Teams can’t expect you to see into the future — a pre-mortem meeting can help you plan around risks and address these issues, keeping your project on track. But most product managers don’t use them, even though pre-mortems might save their launches.

Nate Martins

Marketing

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Pioneers

Char Stiles explores tools for expression and experience

Char Stiles is an artist, educator and programmer whose work uses emerging technologies like live coding to bring to light how computers work.

Devon Zuegel

Product

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Pioneers

Suzanne Ciani explains the composition of her sensory career

Suzanne Ciani is a five-time Grammy award-nominated musician, composer, sound designer, and record label executive whose work helped define the sound of electronic music in the 1970s.

Devon Zuegel

Product

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Pioneers

Danielle Baskin gives words to her many wondrous worlds

Danielle Baskin is a product designer, situation designer, visual artist, and the founder of numerous eccentric small businesses such as a Branded Fruit, Dialup, and Maskalike.

Devon Zuegel

Product

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Pioneers

Loretta Staples' journey through digital and cultural interfaces

Loretta Staples is a prolific designer and educator whose work designing graphical user interfaces on the Macintosh Classic in the 1980s and 1990s helped shape personal computing as we know it today.

Devon Zuegel

Product

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For Teams

Build a knowledge base to avoid 3 most common mistakes startups make

On the journey to starting a company, there are many pitfalls that can get in the way of your success. Here are three problems most startups face — and how a knowledge base helps combat them (with examples from fast-growing companies).

Nate Martins

Marketing

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Notion HQ

Our operating values

Looking back at two years of growth, we wanted to take some time to consider how we can build a lasting company, one where everyone can do their best work and go after Notion's mission together. The result is a new set of operating values.

Ivan Zhao

Co-founder & CEO

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For Teams

3 asynchronous collaboration models for distributed teams

Teams often try to apply in-person collaboration techniques to remote work. But distributed teams face their own challenges — here are some solutions to keep teams connected.

Nate Martins

Marketing