My Notion has years of stuff in it and I can also tell you absolutely nothing about what's in there.
My Notion setup has basically become a second brain at this point, which sounds great until you realize I have absolutely no memory of what I actually put in it.
The thing I keep running into is that I'll have a work session, a bunch of calls, some back and forth with teammates, and then I sit down to actually update my Notion pages and I've already half-forgotten what happened. So I'm either writing vague summaries that aren't useful later or I'm spending way too long reconstructing stuff from memory and Slack threads before I can even start organizing anything.
What made me notice this was a week a few months ago where I had back to back meetings every day and by Friday my Notion was basically untouched. Like a full week of decisions and context and next steps just sitting in my head slowly leaking out. I started using Screenpipe to pull together a rough log of what I'd actually done each day, and then I'd use that to fill in my Notion pages at the end of the day instead of relying on whatever I could piece together at 6pm.
And it worked fine, which is kind of the frustrating part. Because now the question is why I couldn't just do it the organized way from the start, and I think the honest answer is that staying in flow during work and keeping Notion updated at the same time are genuinely in conflict for me. I can't do both. The moment I flip over to Notion to log something mid-task I lose the thread of whatever I was doing.
I feel like this must be a solved problem for some people and I'm just missing something obvious. Are there workflows that actually bridge this? Or do you also just update in batches and accept that something always gets lost?