Text Modification For Notion

This repository contain some module & functions that can be useful to automate process on editing text that will be pasted on Notion (a productivity app).

Description

Notion is a freemium productivity and note-taking web application developed by Notion Labs Inc. It offers organizational tools including task management, project tracking, to-do lists, bookmarking, and more.

But there is a problem with Notioin. Often we want to paste text from a text editor into the Notion app but we get bad formatting when the text is pasted. For example when we want to paste a list that we separate each item with a new line like this:

list_item1
list_item2
list_item3

When we paste it directly into the notion, the list will gather into a block of text, like this:

This is an unwanted condition for us. So the solution to this problem is to add several characters, for example by adding a bullet at the beginning of each item, like following:

- list_item1
- list_item2
- list_item3

The result on notion will be like this:

But it would be very tiring if we add bullets one by one for each item manually. Therefore it is necessary to do automation.

Prerequisites

This repository only have 1 dependencies, which is pytube, so you can install it by regular pip command :

pip install pytube

or by installing requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

Getting Started

1. Open and modify the text in files/input.txt with the text you want to modify.
2. Open main.py and modify the code. For example i want to add bullet for each item, then i will add this code:

notion_modifier(input_filename, output_filename, 'add_bullet')

3. Run main.py. If it's successful, the result will be in files/output.txt

Features

• Add New Line

  Double the new line

  notion_modifier(input_filename, output_filename, 'add_newline')
  

• Add Bullet

  Add bullet at the start of each line

  notion_modifier(input_filename, output_filename, 'add_bullet')
  

• Add Number

  Add number at the start of each line

  notion_modifier(input_filename, output_filename, 'add_number')
  

• Normalize Notion Link

  To give more information about a youtube link, by adding the title and the channel name

  notion_modifier(input_filename, output_filename, 'normalize_notion_link')
  

  • Input:

  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGGPTskb7c8
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKr3wa24NFg
  

  • Output:

  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGGPTskb7c8 Starting A Serious Web Development Project - Traversy Media
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKr3wa24NFg What is a deep learning architect and the interview process. With Adam Grzywaczewski (NVIDIA) - What's AI by Louis Bouchard