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Notion API – public beta

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Post by cristinacordova » Thu, May 13, 2021, 5:08 PM UTC

Notion API – public beta
developers.notion.so

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#2

Post by xvilka » Thu, May 13, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

Time to integrate it with [Neo]Vim and Emacs!

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Post by fishtoaster » Thu, May 13, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

Well that's awesome! I've been waiting for this for a while. My company uses notion internally for project management and I'd love to extend it a little bit (eg to generate burndown charts).

I'll probably try to resist the urge to build a massive, poorly-written project management tool on top of the notion api. Probably.

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Post by dheera » Thu, May 13, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

I currently use a 1-person Slack workspace instead of Notion because I can write bots to help me with various things.

I'll have to see if this API is complete enough to do what I want with Notion.

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Post by dagorenouf » Thu, May 13, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

It's been requested for at least 3 years. I totally understand that it takes a while so I'm not blaming them.

But it seems like in the meantime people have started to move on (I have). Let's hope this can bring back some momentum for them.

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Post by arnon » Thu, May 13, 2021, 5:47 PM UTC

dagorenouf wrote: post #5

It's been requested for at least 3 years. I totally understand that it takes a while so I'm not blaming them. But it seems like in the meantime people have started to move on (I have). Let's hope this can bring back some momentum for them.

Move on to what and why?

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Post by andreilys » Thu, May 13, 2021, 5:48 PM UTC

arnon wrote: post #6

dagorenouf wrote: post #5

It's been requested for at least 3 years. I totally understand that it takes a while so I'm not blaming them. But it seems like in the meantime people have started to move on (I have). Let's hope this can bring back some momentum for them.

Move on to what and why?

So many other applications out there that don’t hold your data hostage like Notion.

I learned after spending an hour to transfer notes that they have a “limit” on the number of “blocks” (aka notes) that I can have.

Absolutely terrible user experience and turned me off from ever using Notion.

I ended up going open source with vimwiki (and obsidian as a visualization layer, although as comments pointed out it’s not open source). much more robust and less impervious to scummy growth tactics or companies shutting down due to acquisitions/pivots in strategy.

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Post by brainzap » Thu, May 13, 2021, 5:50 PM UTC

Time to export articles as static website

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Post by striking » Thu, May 13, 2021, 5:50 PM UTC

xvilka wrote: post #2

Time to integrate it with [Neo]Vim and Emacs!

Can't delete or modify existing blocks yet, sadly.

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Post by WORMS_EAT_WORMS » Thu, May 13, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

Finally! Cool API stuff aside, this could make an excellent use case for a content back-end to your Jam-apps or quick little apps.

For example, Vercel reverse-engineered the internal API and made a super awesome demo here when introducing "Serverless Pre-Rendering". [1]

There's a video demo and code of how they did it.

[1] https://vercel.com/blog/serverless-pre-rendering