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Notion Q&A AI Explained and the Benefits

Notion Q&A is a powerful AI-powered feature that allows you to ask questions and get instant answers from your Notion workspace. It utilizes natural language processing to understand your questions and provide comprehensive responses based on the information contained within your pages, databases, and other Notion content.

Here’s how Notion Q&A works:

Ask a Question: Simply type your question into the Q&A sidebar or the search bar at the top of your Notion workspace.
Understand Your Intent: Notion AI analyzes your question to grasp the underlying intent and identify relevant information sources within your workspace.
Gather Information: Notion Q&A scans your Notion pages, databases, and other content to gather relevant information related to your query.
Synthesize and Respond: Notion AI synthesizes the gathered information and generates a comprehensive and informative answer to your question.
Continuous Improvement: Notion AI continuously learns and improves its ability to answer questions based on user feedback and interactions.

Notion Q&A offers several benefits, including:

Instant Answers: Gain immediate insights and answers to your questions without having to manually search through your Notion workspace.
Contextual Understanding: Notion AI understands the context of your questions and provides answers tailored to the specific information in your workspace.
Comprehensive Responses: Receive detailed and informative answers that go beyond simple keyword matches.
Uncover Hidden Insights: Discover connections and relationships within your data that you might not have noticed otherwise.
Empower Knowledge Management: Facilitate effective knowledge management and organization within your Notion workspace.

Notion Q&A is currently in beta testing and is gradually rolling out to Notion users. It is expected to become a widely adopted feature due to its potential to enhance productivity and knowledge discovery within Notion workspaces.

Business Insider: A Case Study in Advertising Overload

Business Insider is a popular business news website, but it is also notorious for its excessive advertising. The site is cluttered with ads, making it difficult to read and navigate.

There are a number of reasons why Business Insider has so much advertising. First, the site is free to use, and advertising is its primary source of revenue. Second, Business Insider’s target audience is businesses, which are willing to pay a premium for advertising on a site that reaches a large number of decision-makers.

However, the amount of advertising on Business Insider is so high that it actually detracts from the user experience. The ads are often intrusive and distracting, and they can make it difficult to find the information you are looking for.

Here are a few specific examples of how Business Insider’s advertising overload can make the site difficult to read:

Pop-up ads: When you first visit Business Insider, you are bombarded with pop-up ads for various products and services. These ads can be difficult to close, and they can block your view of the content you are trying to read.
Native advertising: Business Insider also uses native advertising, which is a type of advertising that is designed to blend in with the surrounding content. This can make it difficult to distinguish between ads and real articles.
Video ads: Business Insider also uses video ads, which can be very distracting. These ads often play automatically, and they can be difficult to mute.

Overall, Business Insider’s advertising overload makes the site difficult to read and navigate. The ads are often intrusive and distracting, and they can make it difficult to find the information you are looking for.

My Journey with Blogging! and Why I’m Writing on Here

For a long time I have been writing different kinds of blogs online. I started a blog focused purely on technology back in 2006 – it was called Crenk. After two years of running Crenk it was doing really well – it got to a million readers every month and things were great. Then Google changed their algorithm and overnight it went from a million readers a month to about ten thousand.

 🌏 End of the world!

Everything I had built for the past two years were gone in an instant!

A long time after that I decided not to write a blog. I thought it was futile!

However – we were starting a new company that would in 2008 and we really need to grow an audience – but we had $0 marketing budget. The only way we were going to drive an audience to our site and keep them there was to produce a strong blog! It had no extra costs – was based upon time and quality of content – and allowed us to drive people to find our site instead of us having to find them (this was the same time Hubspot coined the term – Inbound Marketing!).

 ✍️ This was the start of the RouteNote Blog

The RouteNote blog took a year or two to really start to grow, but it helped us drive the majority of new customers to our service in the early years! It was hard going and long hours and I was the only writing on that blog for the first 4 years or so.

The RouteNote blog now gets over 250,000 new readers per month and drives a large minority of all signups still on the main RouteNote site. Its invaluable and by far the best investment I ever made!

That brings us to now…..

I still own Crenk and write on there from time to time, but it isn’t the same product as it used to be. The RouteNote blog has gone from strength to strength and now has 3 fulltime writers there.

and I have started writing here….

WHY?

Im still not entirely sure why.. If I write articles on Crenk I will get a lot more SEO and a lot more natural readers, but it has always been focused on Tech. I wanted a place that was mine – somewhere I could share my thoughts (not matter what the topic). I don’t really care if lots of people read articles on my site or not – I’m writing on here purely for the love of writing …. and I find it really helps me to express myself and to my ideas out of my head!

So expect a lot more articles (a lot are going to be random).

Can Blogging Really Make Money in 2020?

This is the exact question I have setout to answer!

Blogging and writing is a great way for me to get my thoughts out of my head. However, it would also be nice to make this little side project as self sufficient as possible.

Additionally, I find that writing content really helps me to learn and investigate about specific topics. (Everything in life is a learn process)

Im going to try to write as much as possible for the remainder of 2020 and see where we can get to by the end. I don’t have amazingly high hopes, but it will be a fun process either way.