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Mac Power Users

578: Getting to Know Notion, with August Bradley

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

David and Stephen are joined by August Bradley, an expert in Notion. They discuss the features of the app, as well as its pros and cons. August then explains Systems Thinking and runs through some favorite apps and services.

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0:00.0

Mac Power Users Episode 578, getting to know Notion with August Bradley.

0:14.2

Hello and welcome back to Mac Power Users. My name is Steven Hackett and I'm joined as

0:18.6

always by my friend and yours, Mr. David Sparks. Hello, Steven. How are you today?

0:24.0

I'm good, David. I am good. Excellent. We are recording today. We've got a friend on the show

0:30.9

to talk about Notion, but before we get into it on More Power Users today, there is a ton of new

0:37.7

rumors about New Max and Apple Silicon, Steven and I will always take that bait. So we're going to

0:44.2

talk about that stuff today after the show for More Power Users. I love New Mac rumors. It's

0:49.5

always good. Oh man, there's so many. It's going to be such a fun year for Mac people.

0:55.7

But before we get to that, we've been talking, threatening maybe, on the show for months now to

1:03.7

talk about Notion, but I didn't want to do it without somebody that really went deep with Notion

1:10.0

and that wasn't Steven or I. So welcome to the show August Bradley. It's great to be here.

1:16.4

August, I was looking at, you know, Power Notion users and you were number one on my list.

1:21.5

I was so pleased when you agreed to come on the show. Yeah, I've definitely gone very deep down

1:25.8

that rabbit hole. Yeah, we're going to have some links in the show notes. August has a whole course

1:31.6

on using Notion, not just for collaborative work, but also just kind of getting your life together

1:38.4

and all of the various pieces. He's built a very intricate Notion

1:42.8

infrastructure that is fascinating. I watch them hypnotically. It's just amazing. All the stuff

1:49.2

you've been able to do with that app. Yeah, it's unprecedented in its ability to let you build

1:54.5

the tool you want. So I've taken full advantage of that. I thought it's funny that you call it a

2:01.0

personal operating system through Notion. Because for years, I've been building what I call SparkyOS,

2:07.4

which is just a decision matrix and a bunch of different things I used for myself.

2:12.7

But I've always been too embarrassed to talk about it because it's such a nerdy thing,

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