Tech Productivity Issue #235 (Using Notion AI)

Issue #235 (Using Notion AI) 08/14/23

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Notion is a super-popular productivity tool used by millions. With the advent of ChatGPT, AI is now becoming a big part of people's productivity workflows. To keep up with these changes to the productivity space, the folks at notion released Notion AI, a writing assistant that works within Notion.

If you'd like a basic breakdown of how this new feature in Notion can be effective, you'll want to check out Tiago Forte's video, Using Notion AI to Save 12+ Hours of Work.

If you're looking into ways to supercharge your writing or note-taking, the overview of he provides may help you get started with this new feature in Notion.

He shows in practical ways how this powerful feature literally saves him hours of work each week. Even in this short video (just over 7 minutes) he's able to demonstrate right inside Notion how he does this with specific step-by-step examples. If you're a Notion user, I'm sure you'll enjoy it!

Now on to this week's hand-picked productivity links!

Tools & Apps

Our Shared Inbox — A simple way to share access and receive emails on unlimited addresses with your whole QA, development, or product team.

Habo — A simple, minimalistic, open-source habit tracker for iOS and Android that includes stats for tracking your progress, reminders, and lots more.

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Routine — An advanced calendar app for Mac, Windows, iOS, and web, to unify your calendars, with features for note-taking, smart scheduling and more.

Shmooz AI — A personal AI assistant for WhatsApp, powered by ChatGPT, that learns from your preferences and is content aware, and includes a feature for creating images on the fly.

Joli — A powerful bookmark manager that enables you to easily create, share, and collaborate on collections with team members or others.

Sup! — A Slack bot for teams that conducts standups, maintains and tracks holidays, builds forms and quick polls, and tracks your team's mood.

Articles & Resources

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning — A look at why tutoring is so effective, and how you can structure a tutoring relationship with a human (or an AI) to help you learn anything.

From Mid to Senior: Time Management and Prioritization — Part of a 10-part series on transitioning from a mid-level to senior-level position, this one specifically focused on principles that help with managing your time.

Former Google Recruiter’s No. 1 Resumé Red Flag: ‘There’s Zero Chance You’re Going to Move Forward’ — The red flag is "text bricks" or "endless streams of text that have a lot of words but not a lot of content." He recommends trimming down your bullet points.

The 4 Essential Elements of High-performing Teams — More details in the article but the basic elements are: Create a shared sense of purpose, foster creativity, keep it positive, and get your team on board with no objections.

Bytes: Your Favourite JavaScript Newsletter — I subscribe to a lot of newsletters, but this is definitely one I look forward to. Entertaining with lots of cool and useful coding tidbits and tools. sponsor

How to Give Yourself Time to Think — A bit of inspiration in the form of a guide to help you plan a personal creative retreat in the city or in nature, so you can form a mindset that will be conducive to successful thinking.

The Physics of Kaizen: Why Somebody Should Get Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened — Goes into the history of a process famously used by the Toyota care manufacturing company, a process that many other organizations have successfully implemented.

Suggestions?

Have a suggestion for a productivity-related tool, article, or other resource? Send me a direct message via X (@LouisLazaris) and I’ll consider including it in a future issue.

Stay productive!

Louis
techproductivity.co
@LouisLazaris

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