[Notion] Curating Articles Turned My Know-how Into Something Wild

In a nutshell

1. After a year with Notion, I’ve amassed enough knowledge to edge toward Nostradamus.
2. Tagging everything and reviewing it means you keep encountering the same know-how and variations, which sharpens quality.
3. Sharing a few lifehack examples I picked up.

Notion Blew Up My Knowledge Base

After a year with Notion, articles I clipped and notes I jotted down have piled up.

Notion now holds over 100,000 items and counting.

All that knowledge floats around in my head, probably helping when I ideate or think about the future.

My COVID prophecy post was one result of that process, and it became the blog’s first hit in a while.

【COVID-19】Let’s Prophesy the After-Corona Era — The Grand Predictions of Gonjicchistradamus

The downside to prophecy is that you can’t really cite your sources, so the logic feels thin. Still, I want to keep experimenting with future forecasting.

I ran into the same issue back when I used Evernote, so it was time to distill everything. This round I organized it in Notion.

Days of Tagging

I went full zen tagging mode and distilled a year’s worth of information.

It’s basically running a one-person government budget review. You want to shout, “Is second place really not good enough?”

You realize how often you’ve learned the same tips. Try rereading the articles and books you’ve saved.

You haven’t grown as much as you thought. The same know-how keeps resurfacing on the timeline in different forms.

Political issues, companies struggling with digital transformation—that stuff is especially obvious. It’s the same story on repeat.

On the other hand, as derivative know-how accumulates, you can feel ideas evolving.

People wrestle with problems and try new approaches, producing interesting outcomes.

You can even watch boredom set in. Stock prices, tapioca giving way to banana juice, hair removal, ab belts, the rise and fall of Ikinari Steak—people clearly have triggers that make them lose interest.

Favorite Lifehacks

Enough stealth marketing for Notion. Here are a few lifehacks I discovered this year. Past articles first:

【Notion】Notion Over Evernote. Let’s Look at Templates.

“That Book’s at the Library” (Chrome Extension)

This Chrome extension checks whether your library has the book you’re viewing on Amazon. It uses the Calil API to search holdings. Buying every book is pricey, so this has saved me a ton.

Decluttering Method

Just a blog post aimed at people who tend to accumulate stuff, but it’s simple and practical. The author has run through every decluttering cliché, so all of it was useful. Honestly, throwing things out because they don’t spark joy is fine with me.

Hypnosis: “The Mind Virus”

My personal theme this year was learning hypnosis, and this book kicked it off. It explains how to use self-hypnosis to clear out negative thoughts and dependencies. After studying it I helped my brother get over a food he hated and his fear of bugs. Thus was born Psychic Gonjicchi.

Side Note

I released a strength-training app called BADDY.
Watch demonstrations of tricky exercises and gym equipment on your phone and try your first workout. Download workout menus and take the app along.
I recently added more home-training routines.

Details here: https://baddyworkout.com/blog/2017-01-04-start/