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Notion API – public beta

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Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by tertius »

dheera wrote: post #4

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.

Expound on how you may take advantage of it.

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Post by owlbynight »

When I initially signed up for Notion, I did so thinking the API was already usable. It was used as a selling point for their premium service even though it wasn't implemented. This was a year and a half ago or so.

I felt pretty burned by it and killed my subscription. Hopefully this turns out well for the people who've been waiting for it, but that experience left a terrible taste in my mouth.

Re: Notion API – public beta

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Post by tekacs »

It's nice to see this happening at last!

This is a promising start, but so far it's read & append it looks like -- no updating (of blocks at least).

Updating page properties can take it a way, but looking forward to seeing it expand a little.

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Post by bnt »

owlbynight wrote: post #12

When I initially signed up for Notion, I did so thinking the API was already usable. It was used as a selling point for their premium service even though it wasn't implemented. This was a year and a half ago or so. I felt pretty burned by it and killed my subscription. Hopefully this turns out well for the people who've been waiting for it, but that experience left a terrible taste in my mouth.

Isn't that the whole point of Agile MVP development? Sell something that doesn't exist and hope someone buys it? Personally, I don't expect much from it, after working with Airtable's API and hating every second of it.

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Post by enra »

Seems extremely limited as an API, wondering what people can actually use this for.

For example markdown support for read/write would make it much easier to use it as CMS or sync the data, instead of working on the custom block types.

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Post by nomad225 »

andreilys wrote: post #7
arnon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ope…

I had the same experience. It started off great, but I was not a fan of the idea of having all my data hostage with Notion. I'm using emacs with org-mode and org-roam right now, but I still don't have good flow with org-roam.

Both Obsidian.md and vimwiki look really cool though. Do you use Obsidian and vimwiki together, or for separate purposes?

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Post by whoisjuan »

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?

Coda and ClickUp came to mind. They have had a public API for a while.
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