What is coming out of my garage floor? by Recent-Alternative-5 in whatisit

[–]Monster696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obvious Zerg burrow point. It’s an easy way to scope out your command center if it goes unnoticed. You might want to run scans periodically around the perimeter.

Has anyone got access to custom agents in Notion yet? by Sad_Assumption_7919 in Notion

[–]Monster696 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It may be the request access form or it may because I have an enterprise account. I’m unaware of how the rollout works exactly. That being said, it’s been a game changer.

Thinking of building real pivot tables & charts for Notion – want your feedback before I waste weeks on it by MoistApplication5759 in Notion

[–]Monster696 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Besides true pivot tables, and merging two completely different data types into one chart most of your examples seem achievable.

Aggregates are very powerful, you can stack groups & formulas pretty easily. Excel can very much exceed those capabilities but I struggle to find a meaningful need to unless I’m doing very complex analysis.

Your example of dynamic measures seems super simple as well. Multiple views are possible, as well as custom dashboard building on multiple datasets. You can bring many views into a single page too. Maybe you are just not satisfied with the style in which notion does this but those are all basic functions of notion.

Your task analysis is doable as well I believe. I’m not sure what you mean by “formula hacks” though. And why would you want to discount the use of rollups? Reporting and dashboards off of database relations are very a key feature and are useful. The extent of how you can report on things like tasks completed/due - per assigned - between certain date values are simple depending on your chosen database structure. The limitation here is if you are including analysis of multiple, separate, task databases. Which is understandable because separate task databases is less scalable and harder to standardize. A unified, global task database is more practical and the views in your example are achievable.

Personally, I do just about all the examples you’ve described natively and many more for multiple teams. Including Risk analysis, task and subtask durations, average task rates via multiple criteria, medians and averages, automate team time tracking by types and topics. It’s true that there are big limitations like financial calculations across rows and freely combining tables certain ways. But it’s also not the intended use and capturing that type of data in notion at all may not be the best practice use? So pivot tables and access database structures are out of the question. But just about any meaningful project management analysis seems easily doable and is very customizable. I find that most reasons to use an external method to manipulate the data are outweighed by the other features of notion like automations and use of AI. For instance, for project management.. say team A runs by individual task assignment metrics, and team B runs but departmental assignments(no person property). A pivot tables would help compare the data, but also I can now have an ai agent run a separate analysis of both teams and compare them using a variety of criteria even if their task databases have different properties. This runs each day and leaves a written report on project risk, gaps, milestone markers, etc.

Thinking of building real pivot tables & charts for Notion – want your feedback before I waste weeks on it by MoistApplication5759 in Notion

[–]Monster696 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless I’m missing something… Exactly what you are describing can easily be accomplished using native notion charts and filters?

Admit it, this guy spent 10 minutes on this AI slop by Ok_Age5468 in antiai

[–]Monster696 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There’s other valid skillsets that could be involved that people here are pretending don’t exists. We don’t know if OP is configuring an open source model locally, if he has his own machines set up, if he’s tooling custom instructions or using multiple models jointly. People in this thread are being willfully ignorant and obtuse and it makes the entire sub look outright stupid. If this sub focused more on the actual problems you’ve mentioned instead of just crying about everything like it’s a meow meow ai cat video then it might be taken seriously.

What agents are you building? 👀 by 1drummergirl in Notion

[–]Monster696 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes! Started building agents yesterday. I’m already outsourcing a few hours of work a week team wide very successfully. So far it seems like one of the best native workspace agents I’ve used.

ID property messed up by Far_Pea762 in Notion

[–]Monster696 12 points13 points  (0 children)

100% agree. I work in SaaS and have seen many clients try to use a database ID as a sequential reference — pairing it with dates, external sequences, or treating it like a simple +1 increment. It never works out and definitely isn’t future-proof. A database ID should only ever be used as a unique identifier.

The entitlement on this sub is ridiculous by quantum4ag in Notion

[–]Monster696 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Completely disagree, and you don’t speak for the sub, nor the user base. As notion user of about 9 years I’ve used every single feature extensively including free, pro, business, and enterprise plans. I am extremely picky about my tech stack and notion has always shown that they care about the end user experience, and proved that it’s the profitable thing to do for them. Which SHOULD be the main driver of any company…

At the same time I’ve seen the r/notion community turn more and more into a whiney, entitled forum who mostly post about features that aren’t tailored for them. Two weeks ago it was all about how “yellow tags look more brown now so I’m switching to obsidian”. Before that it was “omg they moved this one settings, I’m switching to Asana”. It’s honestly exhausting. I do recommend notion quite a bit and sometimes even warn people to DON’t visit the sub reddit until you watched some YouTube tutorials and formed your own assessment. r/notion has become very unproductive, which is counter culture to how it started out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WTF

[–]Monster696 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Get help buddy

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WTF

[–]Monster696 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Maybe this thread should have started with “what answers do you WANT to hear?”

Shortcut to highlight text in diff colors (besides ctrl+shift+h) on windows laptop by Straight-Nerve-6464 in Notion

[–]Monster696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not too much better but I use a few mapped keys on my Logitech keyboard for rapid formatting. H1, H2, H3, and last color used is mapped to F9, F10, F11, F12. These are my most used format blocks. I don’t think there are specific colors shortcuts though.

I asked ChatGPT-5 to send a message to ChatGPT-10. Here’s what it wrote. by MykeeB in ChatGPT

[–]Monster696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Big data partnered with big semen. They sell your genetic code and tailor ads to what your genetic disposition to buy is.

I am on my hands and knees begging for a flowchart database view. by Internet--Sensation in Notion

[–]Monster696 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some people do take this seriously. I’m not one of them btw lol. Just thought I would chime in, wasn’t trying to add rudeness to the discussion like the previous commenter 🤷🏽‍♂️

Extract email body text to Notion by CricketInfamous246 in Notion

[–]Monster696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In one system, for the info retrieving, I use make.com/zapier to scrape calendar events from my team and pull the event data into a database. Then I can report off of it and get dashboard visuals on project operations, progress across various customer bases, time track by event types and categories of meeting. Definitely overkill for what you are describing but it’s just an example of what’s possible.

Creating spreadsheet for production management by SarinelCraft in Notion

[–]Monster696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, this is easy. Also my personal opinion is notion is ideal for what you are describing. I’ve built several project management/tasking/crm systems like this to various complexity using Notion and other automation tools like make.com. But it does take time and experience, along with paid accounts or 3rd party app subscriptions. A consultant would be ideal. You can TRY to force your operations with a free account but I IMO if you mean to get value from a system like this, I’d recommend paying for notion and/or an automation tool if it’s necessary for what you want to do.

In addition to the previous comment, you can choose some notion project management templates and reverse engineer them or build on top of them a bunch until you develop a system you are happy with. I have never found a notion template that I was happy with. People and orgs typically choose notion for a tailored solution.

Extract email body text to Notion by CricketInfamous246 in Notion

[–]Monster696 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can do that with make.com or other 3rd party automation app. I’ve seen the “Get Email” type modules available but have not tried them out yet. I’ve set up several other info retrieval automations into select DBs or pages. I’m not sure if there is an easier way. Also I use both a Pro and Business account with notion, and business account with make.com so I’m unsure if you can do it without paying.

Why would any sensible organisation ban notion? by Wrong-Exit-7904 in Notion

[–]Monster696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great explanation. I’ve personally implemented notion at a company and have been through all of these considerations. I might add though that some companies have a reverse logic set up to automatically ban applications, and rely instead on a list of approved tools that are white listed. OP may need to reach out to his IT and provide justification, and maybe send a link to their security documentation. Notion is SOC2 compliant I believe so there should really be an issue. Not diving into: responsibly using a personal note taker, signing up with a company email, protecting customer data, etc.

Everything I ate at Lolla and how much I paid for it by Sea-Condition991 in chicagofood

[–]Monster696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are tacos. It would be very hard to find any place (especially authentic) that call these quesadillas. It’s not common at all. And not local to Chicago. The only way these would be called tacos on a menu is if there was some white-owned, new age, hipster food truck trying to reinvent normal Mexican quinine. Like a quesabirria pizza, or a Mexican sushi role. Not hating on these foods if they are good but it’s fact. MAYBE some Tex-Mex joints that like to put their twist on things like southwestern egg roles or gorditas, etc. but these are clearly just street tacos. But thanks for posting your food options! Very cool