How to publish SEO friendly blog from Notion for Free?

I want to publish blog from my Notion content. I researched many notion hosting solutions and found a best tool. In this post, I will explain why I decided to use notablog for my blog and how you can also publish your blog from Notion for free.

Example Blog for Demo

katranaithoorumarivu.com is the blog I built using notablog and I will use it as example in this post. It is created from this shared notion page. Each notion page in the table is published as a blog post. Read on to understand how this works.

What are the requirements?

Let me describe my requirements so that you will know if you have same needs or if this solution is right for you.

How to Easily Add Icons to your Notion Notes?

Problem with Adding Icons in Notion

Notion comes with only a limited set of icons. We can get beautiful icons from many websites like Icon8 , Flaticon. But it is painful to add icons from those websites to Notion notes. So I have built a Notion Icons tool to easily add icons to Notion.

In this post, I will share how to use Notions Icons and some tips in using Icons in Notion.

Want to become a Happy and Productive Programmer? Use these 5 techniques from Psychology

How Ideas from Human Psychology can help Programmers?

Do you want to program at your peak performance? Do you want to enjoy programming job? What are the tricks to get unstuck from hard problems? How can you push your cognitive capabilities? Turning into Psychology can tell us answers.

Like a hero of a movie, the programmer’s life has villains, diversions, fights, and emotions. Are you ready to become a programming hero?

Achieve Flow State

In the famous book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals that the secret for achieving Peak Performance is doing work in an optimal state called flow.

Flow is optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and capable of performing at top level. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and completely > involved in an activity for its own sake.

Flow also happens when a person’s skills are fully involved in overcoming a challenge that is just about manageable, so it acts as a magnet for learning new skills and increasing > challenges.

How to Embed Code in your Medium blog or on any Website?

Problems in direct Medium Embed or Gists

We can display code in Medium by adding code block between two ``` (s). But this doesn’t look pretty without syntax highlighting.

The common alternative is to embed code using github Gists. But, we can’t customize syntax highlight theme. Also, it will be nice to annotate code with callouts instead of standard code comments.

Doculet - Easy way to Embed code in Medium

To solve above problems, I have built a new app (named as Doculet). The beta version of Doculet is ready to use.

Why education system should not simply teach solutions, but the fundamental problem solving skills.

(Illustrated using a story of how I taught my kid to make 10 year calendar using less than 10 Pages)

Why we should not teach simply the solutions to the problems, instead teach kids the fundamental problem solving skills?

How to create 10 year calendar with less that 10 pages?

Wondering how these two questions are related?

I will share how I taught my 7 year old daughter to make 10 year calendar with less than 10 pages. Then, I will answer why we should not teach simply the solutions to problems by explaining reasoning behind my teaching approach.

I will also discuss few fundamental skills our education system should teach and what can we change in Math education.

How I taught creating 10 year calendar with less than pages?

The conversation I had with my daughter.

I: How long is one year’s calendar ?

Daughter : There are 12 months. So It will be 12 pages.

I: How long will be a 10 year’s calendar ?

Daughter: Hmm.. that is 10 times 12, so it will be 120 pages.

I: But, we can make 10 year calendar in less than 10 pages.

Daughter: (with excitement) How?

I: To do that, we need to do a calendar research to identify patterns.

Daughter: How can I do that?

I: I will show you how