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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The secret to next-level productivity? Notion + these 9 databases. 🤯 Most people underestimate how much a simple system can transform their workflow. Which one would instantly change your game? #notion #systems

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Me when Notion drops a new feature: 🤯 This is it. My entire workflow is about to be unstoppable. My friend: Cool. Anyway… 😐 ps. If you're like me, my newsletter Spells for Systems is made for you. And it's free.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Notion users be like: 🔹 "Of course! It’s easy!" 🔹 "Yeah… totally… I think?" 🔹 "Wait, what???" 🔹 "Nope. Not doing this." Which one are you? Be honest! 😂 #notion #notionaustralia

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

🌪️ Getting ready for a cyclone means rushing to get next week's newsletter all about @notion.com ready just in case I lose power for the rest of the weekend! ps. This is your sign to subscribe today and share this with a friend if you haven't done it yet. Subscribe here: spells.kit.com

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Anxiously waiting for Alfred to land in #Brisbane. So of course, I'm making a @notion.com template while everything we've done is fresh on my mind 🤣 Friends who've been in a cyclone or similar natural disaster, what's on your to-do list? Stocking up on hot cross buns was a mission of ours 😜

Screenshot of a Notion database with a list fo things to do to get ready ahead of a natural disaster. There's a property to say how far ahead these should be done, and the status of each task.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Did you know that a few minutes into using a new @notion.com template, you'll get a little pop-up asking you for reviews?

Screenshot of the pop-up asking to leave a star rating for a template newly added to your workspace.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Putting this out there for anyone who needs it right now: 👉 Tell me how I can help you There are a few things I can’t do, like: 🎨 Face painting tips and tricks (that’s my daughter’s expertise) Anything else, especially @notion.com stuff, just ask. I’d love to see if I can help. #notion

A white woman with brown hair is smiling at the camera, showing off her face painting. There's a rainbow flower at the top of her forehead, a rainbow on the side with some small green leaves and white dots and sparkles all over. The background is her messy kitchen tables with kids cups and bowl all over the place.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Random #Notion trick I figured out today: When putting a recurring task in "on hold" status, you can choose to use a formula to edit the date, and leave that formula empty so t clears the date. The task still lives in the database but doesn't show in my calendar view.

View of my Notion page which shows a recurring task on hold with no date.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This week's newsletter (Spells for System, a weekly digest of @notion.com content) is a bit later than usual not because something happened to make it so, but because there was sooooooo much content to go through. You'll need to set time aside to go through it all! #notion #newsletter

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If you find your Notion workspace feels like a big mess are you guilty of this 👇 Putting things in the wrong spot, "just for now"

Two brown eggs in an eyewear case on a desk. In the background there is a water bottle, a notebook, some sunglasses, a mini Lego figurine holding a surf board and two cute wombats.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I can help you with: 👷🏻‍♀️ Building a custom Notion workspace 👩🏻‍⚕️ Fixing a template you bought that isn't quite right 👩🏻‍🏫 Teaching you (or your team) how to make the most of Notion.

A pink backdrop on which a lot of pens and pencils and erasers and paper clips are overlaid. The words "Need Help?" are in the middle of this mess.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Mine will follow through if it's a book they're highly interested in (so, sweet stuff) and super simple. We discovered the Simplissime series and it's pretty good. There's English versions too.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Most mornings start like this. Coffee & morning pages ☕ #morningpages #theartistsway #morningroutine

A picture of what's on my desk. There's a notebook, dark with flowers on top, there's a full coffee cup. The cup is a small yellow Creuset cup on a coaster. And in the back is a pile of notebooks where the bottom book is The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm sending thank you emails and Gmail keeps warning me. I understand this in the context of receiving emails, but since all emails I write are outside my own organisation (I'm a one person business), it seems over the top. Would any tech people know how to deactivate this? #techhelp

Screenshot or a Gmail warning telling me to be cautious about sending emails to people I don't know. It's bright yellow and quite annoying because it shows up on every single email that I write.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I love the purple hearts too 💜

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Hey @amyrogers.design ! What do you think of my new look? I absolutely adore the earrings you made me 🤩 A huge thank you from across the pond.

Selfie of a white woman with brown hair wearing green glasses and Notion earrings. In the back wall you can see parts of her kids drawings and art projects.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Tell me you have chickens without telling me you have chickens 🐔 #chickensky

A Venus fly trap in a small pink pot on a window sill. It's caught about five flies already. We call her Avicii.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm in the mood to build a DIY advent calendar for the kids this year 🎅🏻 It's full of activities we do most years and it helps me plan for all the tiny traditions we've accumulated over time. Would anybody else find this template useful? #christmasdiy

A screenshot of a Notion database with ideas for an Advent Calendar based on activities.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Thanks to the new @notion.com Marketplace, I just found out that this little template I built earlier this year, promoted maybe once or twice and forgot about, gets close to 500 downloads each month 🤯 Maybe it's time I dig it back out and talk about it more? #morningpages

A screenshot of a Notion template called Morning Pages. It helps people get in the habit of writing daily and saving a photo a day to create a growing album of daily memories. In the image, you can see a button to add an entry and three sample entries in a gallery format.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My partner was tired of all the poo on our balcony from our ladies visiting us in the mornings. So he put up a gate. No more visits from Janet while I drink my coffee 🤷🏻‍♀️ #chickensky

A brown haired white woman in a bright pink dressing gown patting a chicken while also holding a coffee cup. She's on her balcony enjoying the sunrise and chicken cackles.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Getting my weekly newsletter ready means diving into popular Reddit chats. It's one of the most interesting parts of writing Spells for Systems. I discover new perspectives and new ways of doing things with Notion.

A screenshot showing how I search for the most relevant posts written about Notion in the last week.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I did a @notion.com workshop today and I didn't use any slides 😳 It was so much smoother than the back-and-forth I used to do between Canva slides and showing my workspace. It was also much easier to improvise and answer questions by showing how to get to the solution without switching apps.

Selfie of me, a woman with brown hair and headphones on, in front of her desk and computer screen. She's showing a presentation she made using Notion pages only. And there's a cute coffee mug with a Notion sticker stuck to it.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Tell me you like to lift heavy things without telling me... I'm still working out the best way to record my workouts in Notion and haven't quite got it right. If anyone's got a good template, especially if it's kettlebells related, please let me know.

A photo of me, a white woman in her early forties, in my home garage gym. I'm wearing purple leggings that are covered in chalk and my hands are pale after a heavy workout. There are multiple kettlebells in the background.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm not, like, super obsessed with my chickens, but I did just cook them eggs and added oats for a late afternoon snack because it's raining and a bit colder. Meanwhile, my kids, my partner and I are having take-away because I can't be bothered to cook 🤷🏻‍♀️

A photo of my chicken Janet on the grass in a yard. She's an ISA Brown with light coloured feathers on her chest while the rest of her body has dark brown feathers.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If your systems feel like they don't work, it doesn't always mean they're bad. It could be that, like my kids, you forgot to put things back where they belong. When things feel messy maybe start by picking up the pieces and putting them where they belong instead of throwing your whole system out?

About 10 pairs of kids shoes on the floor in front of clear boxes inside shelves where they should have been stored.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I'm working on being more comfortable shipping things that are good enough. Instead of re-filming a whole video or spending more time than I have to fix a transition, I'm posting it as it is and I'm transparent about it all. #progressoverperfection

A screenshot of the embedded video for a Notion template with an apology for bad editing.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I don't think anyone ever NEEDS to have so many related documents, integrations, and all that jazz, but you could if you wanted to.

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

My office is in there. So all day long, I hear their cackling and pecking. What's the soundtrack of your office?

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Marie-Pier Rochon @mprochon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hello all! I thought it was time to say hi 👋🏻 I'm a Québécoise who's also an Aussie living in sunny Brisbane 🏝️ I'm a former UX copywriter who helps freelancers make sense of their digital chaos. The most dangerous thing in my office are all the LEGOs my kids leave lying around the floor...

White woman wearing dungarees and a pink shirt. In the background are all the LEGOs her kids forgot to clean up.

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