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Inspiration

— Stories about remarkable people and the tools they build.

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The best student and teacher templates to prep for day one of school

Get the most out of school with these Notion templates for students and teachers — organize all your assignments, roommate to-do's, and club projects in one place.

Andrea Lim

Marketing

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How teachers can use Notion to stay flexible and organized this school year

There’s no one-size-fits-all way to teach, just like there’s no one-size-fits-all way to manage the work that goes into teaching. Here's how teachers can use Notion to plan for the unplanned.

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User Education, Notion

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Three-time YC founder and first-time mom finds flow in Notion

Start a startup or start a family? Yin hadn’t had to ask herself this question until recently. Not when she dropped out of Stanford to join Y Combinator. Not when she sold her startup to Microsoft. But now, she wasn’t so certain.

Andrea Lim

Marketing

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How Notion built a product management system to align every team

Notion hit a breaking point a while ago — multiple eng teams, overlapping launches. We needed a new system to match our new shipping cadence. Here's how we built one!

Madhu Muthukumar

Former Chief Product Officer, Notion

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Shopify VP of Engineering Farhan Thawar's template for how to hire a VPE

Hiring the right company leadership can feel more like art than science — but Shopify VP of Engineering Farhan Thawar has a framework for how to spot those diamonds in the rough, and in particular, excellent engineering leaders.

Ben Smith

Community

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Kim Scott's framework for confronting workplace injustice

Use Kim Scott's Just Work template to quickly record instances of workplace injustice and respond based on the role you played.

Ben Smith

Community

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Merci Grace's early-stage startup templates will take your company from zero to one

Former Slack Head of Growth Merci Grace's six templates cover foundational processes like willingness-to-pay interviews, your first landing page, and remote brand sprints.

Andrea Lim

Marketing

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This branding framework made Netflix a household name

Try the template that Netflix used to differentiate themselves and build a memorable identity.

Andrea Lim

Marketing

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7 tools we built on Notion instead of buying

At Notion, we use Notion for everything — here are 7 custom tools we built to replace other software, complete with templates your team can use.

Andrea Lim

Marketing

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This Vision to Values template helped LinkedIn stay on course as it grew

Few teams actually codify why they're doing what they're doing. Former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner developed this template to help companies do exactly this.

Andrea Lim

Marketing