Paul Graham Essay Notes
notion.soIs it only me or is Notion's UI very confusing? Entries of the table look like links, but when I click they just pop out in a little text field non-editable with a shadow and don't seem to be clickable. I feel quite stupid to be honest...
You have to click on the little link icon that appears when you hover
Yes. This exactly god help you if you cannot hover.
That's my main beef will all these web-based doc/database tools like Notion, Coda, Airtable, etc—despite their neat features, there is absolutely no focus on accessibility with any of them. They're all div soup. I love text documents because they're accessible and easy to produce, but these tools have failed to follow the spirit of the web (not to mention web standards).
The designer broke the commonly accepted and specified UX of links. The user is not stupid, the design is.
No, I'm awesomely clever and did the exact same thing...
In case you're also trying to save that for later by directly "forking" it to your Notion, instead of saving it to Pocket for instance.
I found that putting the below link into a Notion page of mine suggests to create de linked DB:
https://www.notion.so/66057ba78cbd4d158349091050bbda55?v=c3a...
If you know of a more direct button I'm all ears.
This needs an explanation. Are the highlights automatically generated by an AI tool or user contributed like Wikipedia or did one person do it?
This appears to be someone's notion notebook with their handmade notes.
Is Notion one of YC companies? Thats my first though after seeing this.
I don't think they are.
Thanks a lot for this. Stuff like this is really really helpful.