Jack Haigh

Content Creator // Researcher

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Using Notion for Eye Catching Technical Docs

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I’m not sure if you heard the word on the street, but Notion is what you should be using for Task Management, Note Taking, Mind Dumping, and maybe shopping lists. I’ll leave that last one up to you.

I’ve been using it more and more lately for documenting short technical blobs of info, all the way up to full blown guides. Notably, the ability to include Code Blocks and export in Markdown (making it super easy to drop into a Github Readme file, Zendesk or Jira), makes Notion an impeccably easy tool to use for both Internal and Customer-facing Documentation.

Disclaimer: I’m in no way affiliated with Notion, I just like the cut of their jib.

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Are We Over-Automating?

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I don’t know about you, but Slack Workflows have been an absolute game changer in my day to day, particularly in a remote world. Our team have used them regularly to help automate team checkins, standup reminders, as well as receive external APIs to post information and notifications. I’ve personally even used them to help me Mind Dump into Notion at the end of my day. Could this over reliance on automation be our downfall?

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The early days of ‘content creation’

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Something I’ve been toying around with for a while is documenting my journey online over the last decade and a half. I’m hoping to do it a little justice here in giving a little context and background into what it was like to be producing videos online as an eleven year old in the early days of YouTube, all the way up to entering university.

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