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How I run my blog using Notion

I just created a blog for my app using Feather.so

It's a tool that lets you use Notion as your CMS to create your whole blog.

It was super easy to set up. I really love the clean design ♥

All my blog content is now managed directly from Notion! I can just edit the Notion document or add a new post directly in Notion and my website blog gets updated.

With this kind of approach, there is less flexibility to customize the blog, but the benefits are a nice, clean, opinionated design that's very easy to set up and simple to manage.

Demo video:
Sotion Blog Demo

Link to my blog: Sotion.so/blog

Keen to hear your thoughts on this.

on July 22, 2022
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    Hey Bruce, it looks like you have 0 results on Google related to your blog.
    You can check here https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asotion.so

    Seems to me this Notion based cms is not optimized for SEO, did you check that?

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      Sitemap was just submitted, so I think it’s just taking some time to be indexed.

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        Btw blog design is very clean, I like it 👌

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      The link now displays the blog 🔥 it looks greate

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    Congrats!

    When you say "flexibility to customize the blog" what do you mean?

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      At the moment the style can only be changed with CSS. But more design options and theme support are coming soon...

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    That's interesting ! I thought cloakist did the same? why did you chose this tool, is it so you don't have to mess with css/js to get good looking site with notion and cloakist?

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      Sotion is dedicated to Notion. It allows you to have a custom domain for your Notion page, add Password Protection or Email Sign Up, and inject custom CSS+JS.

      Cloakist does the same for other platforms like:

      • Adobe Express
      • Airtable
      • Calendly
      • ClickUp
      • Coda
      • Google Forms
      • JotForm
      • Loom
      • Microsoft Sway
      • Roam Garden
      • Roam Research
      • Substack
      • Trello
      • Typeform

      But Cloakist does not have Password Protection or Email Sign Ups. This is only available for Notion pages.

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    How do you deal with the platform lock-in for business continuity?

    If your Notion account was closed or something happened to your data, do you have a way for the content to be backed up periodically?

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      This is not really a Sotion for Feather problem. But would apply to ANY content you may have in Notion. I suppose you could regularly export/back up your Notion content if lock-in is a big concern for you.

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    Wow, thank you Bruce for creating this video showing a feather.so blog.

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    Thanks for the post Bruce, I've been considering a Notion-based site and blog so it's good to hear you've had a positive experience so far. Besides the CSS limitations, are there any other downsides you've stumbled on?

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      Not really. I’ve liked everything about it so far

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    you can automate this with blogbay.co

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      👌🏻Share the link to your blog, Jas

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          Looking good, Jas! Interesting topics you’re covering.

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