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Paul Graham Essay Notes

59 points by acangiano 6y ago

areactnativedev 6y ago
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=c3a5af1b3b584b7b944c27b9b8fa835c https://www.notion.so/66057ba78cbd4d158349091050bbda55?v=c3a... If you know of a more direct button I'm all ears.
mysterypie 6y ago
This needs an explanation. Are the highlights automatically generated by an AI tool or user contributed like Wikipedia or did one person do it?
- vorpalhex 6y ago
  This appears to be someone's notion notebook with their handmade notes.
rdslw 6y ago
Is Notion one of YC companies? Thats my first though after seeing this.
- oski 6y ago
  I don't think they are.
dgellow 6y ago
Is 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...
- mrks_ 6y ago
  You have to click on the little link icon that appears when you hover
- tonetheman 6y ago
  Yes. This exactly god help you if you cannot hover.
  - stevenpetryk 6y ago
    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).
    - mieses 6y ago
      you might like Foam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsCQ3pApTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsCQ3pApTs https://github.com/foambubble/foam https://github.com/foambubble/foam
- vmilner 6y ago
  No, I'm awesomely clever and did the exact same thing...
- okareaman 6y ago
  The designer broke the commonly accepted and specified UX of links. The user is not stupid, the design is.
huzaifaahmed 6y ago
Thanks a lot for this. Stuff like this is really really helpful.
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59 points by acangiano 6y ago

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=c3a5af1b3b584b7b944c27b9b8fa835c https://www.notion.so/66057ba78cbd4d158349091050bbda55?v=c3a... If you know of a more direct button I'm all ears.

mysterypie 6y ago

This needs an explanation. Are the highlights automatically generated by an AI tool or user contributed like Wikipedia or did one person do it?

vorpalhex 6y ago
This appears to be someone's notion notebook with their handmade notes.

rdslw 6y ago

Is Notion one of YC companies? Thats my first though after seeing this.

oski 6y ago
I don't think they are.

dgellow 6y ago

Is 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...

mrks_ 6y ago
You have to click on the little link icon that appears when you hover
tonetheman 6y ago
Yes. This exactly god help you if you cannot hover.
- stevenpetryk 6y ago
  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).
  - mieses 6y ago
    you might like Foam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsCQ3pApTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsCQ3pApTs https://github.com/foambubble/foam https://github.com/foambubble/foam
vmilner 6y ago
No, I'm awesomely clever and did the exact same thing...
okareaman 6y ago
The designer broke the commonly accepted and specified UX of links. The user is not stupid, the design is.

huzaifaahmed 6y ago

Thanks a lot for this. Stuff like this is really really helpful.

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