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Thomas Frank's Note-Taking System

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10/17/20

Currently, rows added to a database via the Notion Web Clipper extension don't respect Notion's database rule that forces manually-created rows to take on the first-listed item in a Select property if created in a view filtered by "[Select propety] is not empty". I make use of this rule to force all manually-created notes to take on the "Open" Status. I've added a workaround that will show any row that doesn't have the URL property empty, in order to account for this limitation of the Web Clipper.

9/23/20

Made a subtle change that makes the system much more robust. Now, all views other than Urgent/Open are filtered by "Status Is Not Empty". In the past, I used a filter group that filtered for the presence of each possible status. This was a trick known by Notion power users that would force all new notes created in a view with this filter to take on the first choice in the Status property (more accurately, any Select property with this type of filter). I realized that "Status Is Not Empty" achieves the same ends (I'm not sure if it did in the past). Moreover, it enables you to add more Status types to your system without having to spend a bunch time updating filters.

6/19/20