Real Use Cases & Time-Saving Tips

I didn’t document anything for the first three years I was freelancing. Everything just lived in my brain, on scattered post-it notes, or inside obscure little automations that had ridiculous names like “Zap step 23 FIXED_USE_THIS_ONE_FINAL.” I finally broke down after a combination of a corrupted Notion template and a dead webhook killed half a…

I spent two Tuesday mornings in a row trying to fix a Notion template that synced with my Google Calendar and somehow stopped updating completed goals after a week. It worked during coffee on Monday, then by Wednesday everything was blank. Turned out Zapier cached the whole thing but didn’t unstick itself unless I manually…

I used to think Notion was practically invincible. Until I tried building a daily dashboard that actually updated. I’m a freelance copywriter, and over the last year I’ve Frankensteined together a home base for time tracking, task capture, and weird client notes (you know the ones). Anyway, this started with a cozy little Today page…