I have been writing blogs as markdown files and pushing them to my application storage. While that is a standard approach, I wanted to try using Notion as the backend of my blog. By that, I mean writing my blog entries in Notion and getting them to show up on my website automatically.

Notion API

Notion provides a powerful API that allows you to retrieve and display content from your Notion workspace on your website. By integrating your website with the Notion API, you can fetch your blog entries and display them dynamically, ensuring that any changes or updates made in Notion are reflected on your website automatically. This can greatly streamline your blogging workflow and make it easier to manage and publish your content.

To get started with using Notion as a CMS for your blog, you will need to set up the Notion API integration on your website. This involves generating an API key and configuring your website to make requests to the Notion API.

Once the integration is set up, you can use the Notion API to fetch your blog entries and display them on your website. This can be done by making API calls to retrieve the content from your Notion workspace and then rendering it on your website using your preferred frontend framework or library.

By leveraging the power of Notion as a CMS, you can take advantage of its rich editing capabilities, collaboration features, and organization tools to create and manage your blog content more efficiently.

Rendering Notion as Markdown

I wrote a small library that converts basic Notion content features into appropriate markdowns. These are assimilated into a single markdown file and added to the blog and voila! You are done.

Every time you add a new blog entry, you can trigger a new build and you should be able to share your thoughts and opinions with the world as easily as writing a new entry on Notion.

Next Steps

Now that I have everything up and running, the next step for me is to automate the entire process. Ideally, as soon as I have a draft, I should be able to see it on a dashboard and once it is ready, I should be able to click publish to get it up and running.

Alternately, a database view on Notion should be able to act as my control panel and I can use tags to mark drafts and completed articles. A listener on top of the database should be able to update the article entries automatically.