Designing Synced Blocks

Re:Designing Synced Blocks by vikingcaffiene on Saturday July 17, 2021 @08:03PM (#27869766)

Notion has no doubt taken note that a lot of people (myself included) use them as a quick and dirty wswyg web site builder. This new feature can be used for a lot of things, but it strikes me as particularly good for that use case. In fact, if I were a gambling man, I'd wager that their product roadmap is full of gems like this and are leading to them positioning themselves as a competitor to the likes of Squarespace and Wordpress.

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Re:Designing Synced Blocks by tylersmith on Saturday July 17, 2021 @09:29PM (#27870133)

I'm using Notion as the DB for a simple jobs site with a static frontend and it's been really nice. Super easy to use CRUD interface out of the box and it's easy to rapidly iterate on data models.

Normally I approach these kinds of projects with a well planned out data structure and proper migrations but the velocity in getting something usable out the door and getting people to use it as been well worth the shortcut. I hope Notion leans into this use case.

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Re:Designing Synced Blocks by vaughan on Sunday July 18, 2021 @07:31AM (#27872128)

> well planned out data structure and proper migrations

Schema design is a process of discovery and code-first approaches become too sticky to change.

I think we need to head back to the ease of MS Access for data modeling and migrations should be automated.

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Re:Designing Synced Blocks by thatswrong0 on Saturday July 17, 2021 @08:20PM (#27869836)

I thoroughly enjoy writing "nice" internal articles for my company in Notion. It just works. Props to them for pulling this off so effectively. I look forward to seeing what they've got coming in the pipeline.

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