Create FOCUS time and OOO events directly in Notion Calendar (demo in video below!)

Give it a try: notion.com/calendar

After meeting many of the faces behind the Notion avatars, I understand more fully the idiosyncratic design of the product. It’s truly a people-first organization, highly unusual in its class. It’s kind of incredible to have entire teams where you’re like “each of these people

Tried a new format for release tweets 🤗

Squeaky clean 🧼

Notion 2.39: Getting back to the basics

Many of you love Notion because of our rich feature set. But we've also heard your feedback. So, we did a little spring cleaning and tidied up the most used parts of the product 🫧

Take a read-through to see what's new ⬇️

Hands down, still the best swag I’ve ever seen.
Originally hand-designed by Ivan himself (founder/ceo of Notion) together with Waltz studio.

When optimism for the future dwindled, so did the fairs. And what was once America's largest statue was torn down (the gold gilding was too costly to maintain).

The statue there today is a much smaller replica...

Bloomberg highlighted some of my team's work! I had a chance to chat with Priya Anand about the template + creator marketplace we've been building and the super creative use cases people have found for Notion. Shoutout to Ben Lang for the inspo!

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Thrilled to announce our next community event at Notion in SF 🌁

This ones is extra special as we'll welcome our friends Marie Poulin & Benjamin Borowski👨‍🚒 from Notion Mastery for an AMA!

Be sure to RSVP soon as space is limited and will fill up quickly 🏃‍♂️
lu.ma/NotionMastery

so cool that so many files in the notion monorepo are named '.ts' in honor of taylor swift

“Robert Oppenheimer was a committed craftsman; he pushed his technical skills to the limit to make the best bomb he could…
The good craftsman, moreover, uses solutions to uncover new territory. Problem solving and problem finding are intimately related. For this reason,

Notion is, even by Silicon Valley standards, idiosyncratic. CEO Ivan Zhao picks out all the furniture at HQ and for years had a no-shoes policy.

My latest magazine profile looks at Ivan Zhao's big AI bet, which earned Notion a spot on #ForbesAI50 :

forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…

Hi again! Great news — our team agrees, and we're rolling out a fix to come out shortly.

Keep sharing your feedback, we're listening 👂

The internet asked for it. Here’s the next iteration of my Notion template for couples.

The best systems in our world are composed of few parts and few simple rules that give rise to maximum freedom, possibilities, complexities, while keeping things as intuitive and obvious as possible.

Designing software is no different.

Frank Lloyd Wright depends on his associates to extensions of his hand — as he was a “pencil” in Louis Sullivan’s hand — to produce thousands of drawings and then narrow down to one decision.

TIL Notion was meant to be a computing/programming language tool to help people make things with very no code.
But because people resonated more with productivity tools than computing, Simon Last and Ivan Zhao decided to hide the computing power behind a productivity tool

Has anyone made a combined model called the DALL•E LLaMA? Asking for a friend

Excited to take the stage alongside an incredible list of speakers at #Config2024 , Figma's annual conference.

I'll speak about design craft, and may talk about… paper!

See you in SF on June 26 & 27 or virtually from around the world → config.figma.com

Ivan and Simon have been building Notion for 10 years. Today, they’re peeling back the curtain on the early days!

Their first meeting. The first version of the product. Our first conversations with users.

First Block, season 1 finale.

Watch now: ntn.so/firstblockfina…

I believe Theodor Holm Nelson created the first rock & roll musical.