I think I've found a way to empower people to build their own digital systems. Of course it's still challenging, but nothing insurmountable. I've boiled it all down to what I'm calling the Smooth Ops Framework. It's not officially launching yet but I figured since it's early days in here and we still have pretty low traffic I'll share it and see what you think. It's the process I use with my consulting clients. Mostly I hand hold them through it, mostly they don't even realise we're taking these particular steps. But I'm pretty sure anyone can follow it. In fact today I ran my first session of a new cohort style course I'm going to offer soon, walking someone through the first phase. We're going to spend the next couple of months trialing it and learning so it's super polished before I offer it more broadly. Anyway here are the phases. The first 4 are linear, they have to be done in order. After that you can kind of choose your own adventure. In fact they work best if you let them feed into one another, inform and improve each other. Clarify Business Systems: Identify and define the key business systems and processes, ensuring a clear understanding of their purpose and function. Map Current Digital Operating System: Document the digital tools used and align them with the business processes to map the current digital operating system. Design Workspace Framework: Develop a detailed framework for the workspace, identifying components, attributes, and their relationships. Build Notion Databases: Create the necessary databases, relations, properties and templates within Notion to support the designed framework. Craft Notion Interfaces: Design and refine interfaces in Notion to ensure a user-friendly and effective workspace. Integrate Digital Operating System: Connect the Notion workspace with other tools across the web for seamless operation. Setup Automations: Identify appropriate processes for automation and design them to enhance accuracy and efficiency. Leverage AI:

Notion has been smashing out the new features lately. Seems like there's a new one every few days. I'm keen to know which you are most excited about ...

Did anyone see the tease by Notion in the last few days about the upcoming Charts feature? https://x.com/NotionHQ/status/1806026417140039805 I'm really excited about the uses for this. Heaps of my builds have reporting elements too them and now we can visualise that output in super powerful ways. 🥰

Nice little quality of life improvement by the Notion team out today. You can reorder your sidebar sections! https://x.com/notionhq/status/1770189635827716537?s=46&t=olORshYSQFBM6Bad36EdlA

If you haven’t gotten your head around the new Home feature check this video out for a full rundown. Ben is a wealth of information and insight about Notion.