Managing my personal knowledge base

Re:Managing my personal knowledge base by karlicoss on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:34AM (#22009688)

Never used notion, but personally I'd prefer a machine readable and raw export, at least you can assemble your stuff back in any way you prefer. More annoying when you have to scrape data you're interested in from htmls.

But yeah, lack of API is a major problem, and main reason I haven't even considered trying it yet.

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Re:Managing my personal knowledge base by tkainrad on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:44AM (#22009746)

I think Markdown does qualify as machine-readable. There are very good libraries to do all kinds of things with it.

Edit: I guess you meant human-readable as opposed to things like base64, and not as a critique against Markdown.

By now, there are several unofficial APIs at least, for read-access they are quite good apparently, did not yet use one myself though. E.g. https://github.com/kjk/notionapi

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