I built the thing I talk about in this blog post — if you want to check it out, it’s here!
Notion, like every tech company, has been shoving AI features down our throats for the last couple of months at the cost of customer UX. So I disabled them. You can do this yourself by just messaging support — I got the idea from this Reddit thread, which is one of many. Ever since I disabled it, the UX has at least returned-to-normal, and performance of editing has increased (have you ever noticed how Notion lags a bit every time you press SPC so that it can show you the AI toolbar?).
Try it out here if you like pressing buttons as much as I do! GitHub if you like reading code.
During the holidays, I wanted to get better at answering questions like “what is 7 half steps up from A?1” I often found myself in the situation of having these problems as a lot of guitar chord sheets are written something like “A capo 7” which means you put the big barre thing on your guitar and play an A-shape chord. When using a capo, the actual underlying chord is ‘A + 7 half steps’. This means if you’re collaborating with another instrument or with someone not using a capo, you need to communicate the actual chord you’re playing. This requires some mental math, which I found slightly embarrassing as I didn’t always immediately know what chord I was playing.
Imagine you have something to say to people. So you come up with some representation of that thing you want to say; maybe bullet points, maybe a rant, maybe even some markdown stuck in a GitHub repository. Why can’t you just publish that?
