How to build a blog using Notion

Today you’ll learn how to build a blog using Notion.

How to build a blog using Notion
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Hello there!! 👋
Today you’re going to learn how to build a blog using Notion as your CMS (content management system).
Let’s grow🌱

Today’s Task📝

🧱 Project: Build a Blog using Notion
⏲️ Estimated time: 30 minutes
🛠️ Tools: Notion, Feather

Context📄

You learned yesterday that Notion has a wide variety of use cases, and today you’re going to learn more about one of them - using Notion as a CMS to create a blog.
Notion is a popular writing and journaling tool due to it’s intuitive, distraction free editor and highly flexible way of organizing content.
For this reason, Notion can also provide a great foundation for creating a blog, especially if you’re already frequently writing in Notion.

Let’s Prep 🥗

What’s Feather?
Feather allows you to write your content on Notion and automatically publish it to a blog, all via a Notion database.
Within Feather you’re then able to build a blog from their templates, customise the design of your blog and publish it to your own custom domain or subdomain.
Here’s a showcase of blogs built using Feather.
 
Today’s Lesson
In today’s lesson you’re going to create a blog using one of Feather’s templates and example data from their database. You’ll duplicate this data to your Notion account, add a new post and then customise the template before publishing.
🚨 Important 🚨 Today’s lesson requires you to enter your credit card information before starting a free 7 day trial. Cancel before your 7 days are up and you won’t be charged.
🔥 Get ready to learn!
To make your life easier when you build, it’s good to get some practical stuff out the way first. Follow these steps so you’re ready to build:
  • Sign up for your account with Notion

Time to Cook👩‍🍳

  1. Sign up for a free account with Feather.
  1. Watch this short video about Notion databases.
  1. Review this step-by-step guide to build a blog with Feather.
 
 
That’s a wrap, we hope you found this lesson helpful!
  • If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

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Max Haining
Max Haining

Founder of 100School.com