Wow. Just started blogging and I already went missing for almost a week. Sometimes my own ability to fail at making new habits surprises even me. But, I have been somewhat productive during that time.
As usual, I’ve been working through my coding interview book like I mentioned in my last post (which I should streamline since doing every single problem while writing down my analysis takes longer than I thought), but I’ve also been doing a couple other things. As described in the title, I’ve been messing with Notion and playing a couple of games that recently came out.
Notion is an app that makes life organization easy. Using a block system that allows easy customization of pages that you can use for pretty much anything (note taking, database work, scheduling, etc), it’s a lot of power for keeping track of a lot of things for free! Well, free if you keep things personal. I think there’s a paid program available for working on Notion pages in a group setting? I’m not entirely sure how that works, I’m new to the whole thing too.
The two main things I’ve worked on in Notion so far is a Genshin Impact database, the template of which I got off reddit somewhere, and a database to keep track of my notes and work on “Cracking the Coding Interview”. Since the Genshin work isn’t mine, I won’t show that but I’m kind of proud of what I’ve done with the note taking so far.
The head page keeps a table that holds the different pages tied with each chapter I’ve worked on in the book. One cool feature of Notion is the way I can make a template of the pages themselves, and if I press hit the new button at the bottom, it’ll automatically generate the page with that template and I can work on a new page right away without having to worry about formatting.
Don’t mind my lazy clipping but this is essentially what each chapter page looks like. Each field for the table database (located on the head page) is available at the top to adjust as needed and below is how I set up the note taking body of my page. It’s much longer than this but I think this is enough to show how convenient the application is in organizing what you need and want in an appealing manner.
So, yes. That took up a lot of my free time, messing with features for fun. I plan on making my own database for another gatcha game I play (Arknights) and maybe some scheduling though my schedule is never really set in stone.
Aside from Notion, two games have sucked up a lot of my free time: Pokemon Arceus and Dying Light 2. I’d love to write a review or something but honestly, I’m not that far in either game as I easily got side tracked with the more miscellaneous tasks. 🤦 It’s fun so far though, despite the grind. Maybe I’ll go into more detail in another post, we’ll see~