Spells for Systems πŸͺ„ Issue # 23


Time for some changes...

The Spells for Systems newsletter has been going for almost 6 months now. And I'm grateful to all of you who are still hanging around. Thank you 🀩
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I'm bringing two new changes:

1) I am taking out the in-depth introduction on a Notion or productivity-related topic. I am considering a new newsletter, specific to freelancers who want to use Notion, but that's news for another day. For the next little while, this newsletter will jump straight into what you need, which are the latest news and useful links for the week.

2) I'm adding a section to showcase cool template ideas. I'm especially looking for templates that stand out from the OS and Second Brain crowd. Do you have a template you want to share? (it can be yours, or someone else's that you thnk is simply awesome)

πŸ“° Official Notion News

Good news: You can now use conditional formatting with Notion forms. What that means, is that you can ask a question that leads to another one (or not).
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​Bad news: It only works for Business and Enterprise plans. You have to pay more than just the Plus account to make this happen.

Webhooks were already a thing, but you can now use them for more things. If that's your jam, you can find all the documentation here. So far Zapier, Maker.co and a few more are using them. And rumour is that Make is working on this too.

iCloud users can now sync their calendar to Notion Calendar (before it was only reserved for Google Calendars)

Finally, Notion just launched a Creator Program, meaning you could get up to a year of Notion Plus with AI for free, depending on how many followers you have.

On the official blog, Tools & Craft

πŸ“Ή YouTube videos worth watching

πŸŽ™οΈ Podcasts to listen to

πŸ’­ Popular Reddit threads

πŸ“ Articles elsewhere

πŸ“ Cool Templates

πŸ—“οΈ Events​

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Until next week!

Marie-Pier Rochon

Notion Creator & Ambassador

πŸ§™πŸ»β€β™€οΈ Your Friendly Systems Wizard​
I help freelancers organise their work with DIY Notion templates & DWY Notion workspaces.
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