Write it down. Then ask it questions.

A page is a page until you give it columns. Then it is a database, and the same rows can be a table, a board, a calendar, a gallery or a timeline without being copied.

Twenty kinds of column

Sort it, group it, filter it. This is the real table.

A formula is a column that works out its own answer

Add days to a date, roll a related table up into a sum, count what is still open. Created, edited, who by, and the row number are all columns you never have to fill in.

What a page can hold

Every block Notion has

Headings, lists, toggles, callouts, quotes, code with highlighting, tables, columns, equations in LaTeX, mermaid diagrams, bookmarks, embeds and a table of contents that reads itself from the headings.

Mentions and backlinks

Mention a page and it links; the page you mentioned shows who pointed at it. Mention a person and they hear about it.

Markdown, HTML, PDF, backup

Markdown, HTML, a real text PDF, and a backup of the whole workspace in one file that can be put back.

Collections are questions, not folders

Everything of mine that is late. Everything tagged decision. Nothing is filed into a collection and nothing falls out of one when it changes.