Hello world!
I’ve been using Notion pretty extensively now for organising my work, thoughts, notes… pretty much everything. I use it across a range of devices, and I’m super comfortable with the editing interface. The AI tools are pretty good and useful too.
This got me thinking; could I use it as a CMS?
A quick search brought up a range of SaaS products to do exactly this - but I don’t really fancy an additional subscription, and I really don’t need any of the advanced customisation features they offer.
Next.JS Notion Starter Kit
I added “Next.JS” to my search term (”Notion Next.JS CMS”) which brought up a GitHub repository:
I figured, what’s the harm in taking it for a spin and linking it to a Notion page. Which, for the record, took all of about 5 minutes.
The code itself is fairly well maintained - I was able to bring all dependencies up to date with minimal hassle and set to stripping out some of the functionality I didn’t want.
In just a couple of hours, I had what you see now!
Editing Experience
Using Notion as a CMS has so far been the best mobile editing experience I have had. I’m able to start drafting content how I am most comfortable throughout the day, and then I can refine it on my laptop later. I’m sure it wouldn’t be a great fit for anything more advanced than a personal site like this, but the ease of it all has left my very satisfied.
Thanks Travis!
Really, this whole post is just my way of saying thanks to Travis Fischer for his wicked little starter kit. Appreciate you!