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The Plan

I wanted to be able to upload blog posts as easily as setting a status in Notion. I figured that if there was too much friction in posting to my blog, it wouldn’t happen regularly.

I also really wanted to be able to write and format my blog in Notion. I had a few reasons for this:

  • I’m in Notion already
  • It has enough flexibility, but not too much
  • It is where I demonstrate my expertise, and doing this is another Notion skill
  • It makes it easy for me to track where all my posts are up to
  • I might be able to use AI to make elements of it easier, better, and more reliable.

The Steps

  1. Create the database for content
  2. Get ChatGPT to understand my intentions and sense check it
  3. Set up Codex in VS Code to be able to use Github and Notion, including workers
  4. Be the meat puppet between ChatGPT and VS Code
  5. Tell ChatGPT to be more conservative with tokens
  6. Reset my token limit when it ran out
  7. Keep on going, keep on going
  8. Test

Things I leant

Sometimes it’s easier to paste a screenshot than it is to explain everything.

And here is another example image
Not so much text this time, but I didn’t know what was needed.

Here’s a screenshot of some settings. I really didn’t want to have to type all of this out.

An example image
Sometimes it is a lot of text

And this was another one.

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Watch “this video” on YouTube

The easy things

The idea was simple

The hard things

AI made it a lot easier, or even possible. But it was really hard to understand what was going on. I think it gave me a headache.

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