Three years ago, I spent an entire Saturday—roughly eleven hours—building the ‘perfect’ dashboard in Notion. I had linked databases for my reading list, a weather widget I never looked at, and a gallery view for my ‘goals’ that featured high-resolution photos of mountains I will never climb. By 10 PM, I felt like a god …
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 2:00 AM on a Tuesday in June 2022, staring at a screen filled with purple and blue emojis. I was building a “perfect” Notion dashboard for a local community garden fundraiser I was helping out with. I spent probably forty hours that week setting up relational databases, rollups, …