Notion on iPad and Mac
How to Update Notion Tables and Draw Charts With Apple Shortcuts
I work around Notion’s niggles to create a dashboard that’s easy to update using iPad or Mac
Life is getting expensive, so my strategy of blissfully ignoring energy consumption had to change. Time (sigh) to start keeping track of my energy bills (and everything else), and I needed to share that with my significant other too. She hates spreadsheets, and an attempt to simply provide her with a link to a shared folder caused morale issues.
Notion seemed to be worth trying as a potential way of collecting and sharing information in a way understandable to humans. Everybody seems to be talking about it and how great it is, but sadly for me, it didn’t offer an Apple Shortcuts extension.
Then I read about Nautomate in MacStories. Nautomate wraps up the Notion API as a library of Shortcuts actions. A potential migration to Notion was back on the cards.
It was eventually a win, but, my word, it was painful. Notion certainly isn’t a fully featured database system. However, after some head scratching and googling, I worked it out, and I can report that we have a functioning dashboard.
