Tools & Craft

From 2021-2022, I managed the day-to-day production of Notion’s blog Tools & Craft, including our company announcements, inspiration series, tech blog, and podcast. I managed a group of contractors and also wrote (and ghostwrote) several pieces. Partners: Nate Martins, Camille Ricketts

How Notion built a product management system to align every team

Notion hit a breaking point a while ago - multiple eng teams, overlapping launches. It was hard to know what was getting released, or why. We needed a new system to match our new shipping cadence. Here's how we built one!

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Three-time YC founder and first-time mom finds flow in Notion

Start a startup or start a family? Yin hadn't had to ask herself this question until recently. Not when she dropped out of Stanford to join Y Combinator. Not when she sold her startup to Microsoft. But now, she wasn't so certain.

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Here's what "Chief Notion Officer" actually means

Courteney has a job that she didn't know existed a year ago. It happened like this. She had just finished presenting at Toronto's first Notion meetup when she was bombarded by attendees asking her: Could she share her templates? Could she review their setups?

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How getting organized helped a YouTuber quit his day job

Ahmed's father wasn't convinced his son should become a full-time Youtuber - until he saw the paycheck. It was a surprise for them both. Five years ago, Ahmed was a civil engineer dodging scorpions in the Arabian desert. He started making Youtube videos at night teaching English, content that wasn't easily accessible in Egypt.

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Helping more startups use Notion, in partnership with AWS and Stripe

When we first launched our Notion for Startups program two years ago, we had no idea how much the world would change - or how many different shapes and sizes of companies would end up relying on our tools to bridge the divides of remote work.

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Notion is now in Japanese! みなさん、こんにちは！

When Notion's CEO Ivan first approached me about growing Notion's presence in Japan, I was surprised by a few things. First, that a company so small (only 58 people at the time) wanted to meaningfully invest in the Japanese market. Second, that there was already a huge, vibrant community using the product in English - very rare for Japan.

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