Thank you for building Drafts and making it such a powerful and elegant tool.
Can you please consider to integrate Notion support slowly but surely into Drafts? This would be very helpful as most of my writing starts in Drafts but ends up in my digital note archive.
After 10 years of Evernote, I switched to Notion in a heartbeat after trying it out for a day. It is so powerful and adds many, many advantages to my digital archive. I am convinced it is going to have a huge appeal to advanced digital note-takers (=people that use Drafts) and is going to grow in importance over the next months and years.
Thank you for your consideration and keep up the good work
Achim
PS: if you are a Notion user and read this, please consider to make yourself heard
Iām not aware of any Notion API. Iām always looking for new services to integrate into Drafts, but unless they offer a web-based API, itās not possible to integrate Notion in the manner or with the level of depth Evernote is integrated.
I also have not seen documentation for any URL scheme support in their apps, which would allow integration with existing actions in Drafts. If anyone comes across documentation for such support in Notion, Iād be happy to assist in the creation of some example Notion actions.
Thank you for this constructive answer Iāll reach out to the Notion support team and report back here what they have to say regarding API availability.
While they come up with an API for a more transparent integration, I wonder if there is a better formatting option to share to Notion via Clipboard so that the format is better preserved.
Maybe Copy as Markdown is good enough.
Since this topic is relatively old, have there been any updates on either side?
I know Notion has an iOS share sheet extension but not sure if they have proper documentation to make it work better.
Thanks!
Hi, thanks for the link. I asked to join the beta test and got this answer:
Weāre aiming to launch the public beta in Spring 2021, and youāll be among the first to gain access to the public beta and our early developer community as soon as they open.
FYI, still looking into this to clarify, but the best I can tell the API Notion has provided is not suitable for use with Drafts. Itās not a client-side API, but built around a server-side bot model.
Individual users do not log in to the API like a client-side API, but the application itself does, so itās more like Slack Bots that sit around and watch for data changes in Notion and perform actions, etc.
Iām sure the braying hordes want the world on a dessert spoon but Iād be happy with the ability to just send a draft to a certain notion page right now ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ best of luck- love what you do.
It should be possible to do basic āadd text to Notionā type actions. Iāve got it working as python scripts and run these from Drafts using Pythonista (iOS). Iāve had to use this package: ramnes/notion-sdk-py: Python rewrite (sync + async) of the official Notion API client (github.com) as I canāt get get the json right to directly use python requests or HTTP requests. Somebody with better javascript skills should be able to make it work. There arenāt many endpoints in the API, but itās surprising how much can be done.
The API itself has methods to manipulate content, no problem. The issue is more about authentication and security model. Most of the APIs Drafts integrates with allow an individual user to authenticate and perform actions as themselves. For example, you log in to use the Twitter API using your personal credentials, and actions taken with the API appear on Twitter as having been done by you.
The Notion API is set up to create āintegrationsā. Only a single instance of the integration is authenticated in a Notion workspace, and actions performed using the API appear as being performed by the integration, not the user, additionally the resources (pages, databases, etc.) in Notion which the integration has permissions to act on are not the same as that of an individual user, and integrations must be added to a workspace in Notion just once by an administrator of the workspace - individual users cannot choose to add them and use them.
Nothing wrong with this, itās a powerful model for many of the types of things Notion needs in integrations, but doesnāt make sense for Drafts.
That said, it is certainly completely possible to write Drafts scripts that use the API, you just have to create your own integrations and manage the API tokens, etc., yourself.
Got it. That makes sense. It doesnāt really make any practical difference for me as a personal, individual user, but I can see how it would make a difference within a team instance of Notion. Now, if only I could stop getting these json errorsā¦
