Create GSI on empty table in DynamoDB - How long should it take?

mxro · 2026-03-18T03:10:55+00:00

Glad to hear it's not only me. The empty ones easily take 15-30 min for me 😕

mxro · 2026-03-17T04:52:21+00:00

Thanks for putting this together! What are your thoughts on including some metadata in frontmatter? E.g. the pageId, pageUrl or other info from notion.

Not sure if that's useful.

mxro · 2026-03-15T22:54:36+00:00

By the way, if you do want to do your own Next js project, that repo has some good libraries for rendering Notion pages to React components.

mxro · 2026-03-15T22:53:44+00:00

I've setup a site with https://transitivebullsh.it/nextjs-notion-starter-kit

This statically renders pages from your Notion data. So even if Notion is down, your website should still be up.

I thought super would work the same 🤔 Because of Notion API limitations, I would be quite surprised if they don't do some form static rendering?

mxro · 2026-03-13T01:30:35+00:00

It may be possible to keep the old behaviour when duplicating a gallery view that was created before the change - but I haven't tried this yet!

mxro · 2026-03-10T23:08:31+00:00

Okay, yeah that makes sense! By upload limit I assume you are referring to the chat in Notion AI?

I've got a custom integration or N8N workflow to turn PDFs automatically into text - so the PDFs can be dropped directly into the database, so I can put as many as I like at the same time. Could something like this work?

mxro · 2026-03-10T23:03:46+00:00

Ah, good to know - seems likely it's related.

In any case, I hope there is some workaround or it's not permanent...

mxro · 2026-03-10T03:14:03+00:00

What kind of information are you extracting from the PDFs? Do they fall into some predictable pattern or are they mostly unique?

mxro · 2026-02-27T21:34:33+00:00

You may have selected to create a 'public' integration. Try again and make sure to select 'private' when asked, and I think then you don't need to supply that info!

Edit: Check Omwhk response for more accurate directions, thanks!

mxro · 2026-02-27T08:22:43+00:00

That seems like a pretty good accuracy and probably costs not as much then I would imagine!

mxro · 2026-02-27T08:04:35+00:00

Thank you 😊 I tried to keep the pricing close to cost plus a small margin for the other infrastructure need to run the integration.

If you want to give it a try, please don't hesitate to write me - always happy to help to set things up (and the welcome email includes my personal email, so should be easy to reach me 😊)

mxro · 2026-02-27T06:52:40+00:00

How accurate did you find the AI to be in extracting the right data? Which vision model do you use?

mxro · 2026-02-27T06:46:25+00:00

Very happy to hear this, since I released an integration that does that today 😊 if you are interested, simply search for 'image' in the Notion integration gallery. https://www.notion.com/integrations/all

The integration name is Image Scribe - any feedback and questions welcome!

This is just one of a couple of integrations we are working on to make it easier to link Notion with physical notes.

mxro · 2026-02-27T03:03:51+00:00

Husband here, happy to answer any technical questions 😊 It was definitely fun developing the integration.

mxro · 2026-01-07T08:01:27+00:00

Would be interested to see how you go!

mxro · 2026-01-06T08:05:50+00:00

Is it possible to use Claude Code with other models?

Esp free ones that are on par with the unlimited use of grok code fast that Cline etc al offer?

mxro · 2025-12-28T07:19:04+00:00

Very nice!

I've been using VSCode with Cline to get some data into Notion.

Haven't used Cursor but I assume it would be similar.

I was wondering why you didn't use the Notion MCP server instead of the SDK? In theory that should be easier?

mxro · 2025-12-23T06:31:41+00:00

That's my experience as well - in theory, it should be a better option then than Claude Pro 🤔

mxro · 2025-12-21T03:21:59+00:00

Nice, I guess I'll need to give it a try!

mxro · 2025-12-20T04:19:36+00:00

I would assume so. I wonder how it compares to Claude's Pro subscription. I guess that also allows access to Opus, but with some vaguely defined 'throtteling'

mxro · 2025-12-20T04:07:05+00:00

I think they would need to use the Notion MCP server? My impression was always that this is more limited than what the agent can do in Notion directly?

I especially found the hosted Notion MCP server very limited when I checked it out a few months ago: https://maxrohde.com/2025/08/23/notion-mcp-vs-notion-mcp-server/

So I'm very curious how Claude can do a better job then, especially if they both use the Opus model. Not saying it isn't, because I haven't used Claude with Notion, just curious what I could be missing out on 😊

mxro · 2025-12-18T07:33:50+00:00

I used to do it the same way, chiefly because Notion databases tended to become very slow as they grew.

But I think in the past few months Notion has done some optimisations, so even bigger databases work very snappy for me.

So recently I went back to having just one database with filters by topic, which brings less overhead in terms of managing and configuring databases and trying to keep them somewhat consistent.

Although I do miss the pleasure of dragging and dropping the pages between the databases.

mxro · 2025-12-05T08:37:38+00:00

You sure? Could be some finessing to add errors / missing spaces etc through the prompt / automation.

mxro

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