Cole Bemis

Bad day to be a spacebar.

Notion has been shipping like crazy. Here's what you probably missed 👇 1️⃣ Tab blocks Type /tabs to create a horizontal layout. Only the active tab loads — performance win included. Absurdly useful inside database templates. 2️⃣ H4 headings Four heading levels now. Small change — unless you're pushing pages to WordPress or any publishing tool. Then H4 suddenly carries the right HTML tag through the API. 3️⃣ Page archiving Archive a page and it disappears from views but stays in the database. Deprioritised by search and AI. Think of it as the inverse of verification — three priority tiers now: verified, default, archived. 4️⃣ Slides Add dividers to a page, click Present. That's it. You can now jump to any slide mid-presentation. Stupid simple and I keep reaching for it. 5️⃣ Dashboard views A proper new view type. Responsive grid, multiple databases, global filters across all of them. Setting a filter on 6 views at a time? Finally possible 😍 6️⃣ My Tasks Back as a standalone page. Connect multiple task databases, aggregate them in one place. Not a fix for workspace chaos, but useful when you genuinely need it. 7️⃣ "Can Create" permissions People can create their own entries in a locked database without seeing anyone else's. No more form workarounds. Big for client portals and team databases where privacy matters. 8️⃣ Custom meeting note instructions Write your own summary instructions per meeting type — and map them to your database templates. Reference docs work too, so you can feed it a terminology dictionary and improve accuracy. 9️⃣ Cheaper AI models Haiku, Gemini Flash, Minimax — now available in custom agents. For simple routing workflows, you don't need Opus. This will matter once agents leave free trial. 1️⃣0️⃣ AI image generation /AI image, or through your agent, or as a page cover. ~10 per day per account (30 / month). I keep hitting the limit, which tells you something 😎 1️⃣1️⃣ Unified inline AI The on-page AI is now the same model as your personal agent. And you can move conversations from the page to the sidebar if things get more complex than expected. 1️⃣2️⃣ Markdown API endpoint This one's for the builders. Instead of getting back a wall of JSON blocks, you can now request a page as clean markdown. Dramatically fewer tokens, way easier to work with in external agents. So many cool things — what's your favourite? 😍

🎙️ Update: AI Meeting Notes now run in the background. Switch apps, lock your screen…doesn't matter. Your notes will keep going. On iOS and Android.

Sharing a few of my favorite prompt snippets for coding: For iterating on a spec: Please step back and think again. How can we make this SIMPLER and DUMBER while still achieving our goals? For planning: Please research the codebase to make sure you fully understand how stuff currently works, and make a detailed plan to achieve the above. Your plan must be fully fleshed out and include only concrete actions such as editing files and running commands (ie. your plan cannot include actions like “read this file”). Your plan must also include how you will verify it is correct yourself, end-to-end. Don’t make any code changes yet. Research now as much as you need and then chat back with your full plan when ready. For debugging: Please think carefully and truth seek. Don't just blindly re-run things and hope they will work. Read the code, and liberally add temporary logging statements anywhere in the codebase to verify logic works as you expect (just remember to not commit them). Dig deep and take the time to really figure out the root causes of problems.