Twitter Guy Says He Uses 'Notion' To Maximize Productivity Of His Marriage, Leading To Complete Chaos And Memes Online
Ben Lang, an early member of the Notion team and the productivity software's former head of community, posted to Twitter / X on Sunday about the Notion HQ page he and his wife use to manage their marriage.
Titled "Our Home Base," Lang's Notion page includes a list of friends to set up on dates with each other, a list of chores and a log of "previous date night memories."
Notion, which is often used by businesses in the technology space to manage projects and workflows, offers a way to organize to-do lists, calendars and notes — similar to other CMS platforms.
Lang's marital Notion includes grocery lists alongside documents about "principles" and "learnings" that undergird his marriage.
As it went viral, many posters online made fun of Lang, seeing his Notion document as representing the always-be-optimizing vibes of Silicon Valley.
To many, the Notion page seemed like an attempt to bring corporate hustle tactics and project management culture to love and family.
Others, however, approved of the Notion and argued it was evidence of good communication in his marriage.
There were several various memes and jokes about the possible consequences of failing to live up to commitments made on the marriage Notion, but overall, the template appears to be popular.
According to a recent post, Lang has sold over 1,500 versions of the template to other people, making a total of $577 as of today.
Lang also appears to understand the meme, posting an updated template leaning even further into the parody of tech-bro optimization culture.
The new template is complete with hundred-year goals, an option to AI generate daily affirmations and tickets to ask for IT help.
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rerere284
I wonder what this would look like if it used more casual language instead of all the business terminology.
For some stuff like groceries, contacts, long-ish term todos, etc. this seems like a neat idea (though it's hard to beat sticky notes and paper+fridge magnets), but the language is way too formal.
For relationship stuff though? noooo
rerere284
though speaking of fridge magnets, what if you set up a camera to look at your fridge, and then check the fridge-magneted papers remotely from your phone when you're grocery shopping
then you can check it remotely like you can with this stuff, but it's still convenient to edit at home
for privacy, just don't update the latest image stored whenever the border of the fridge is blocked by someone's ankle or something
need a pretty high-res camera though
Boykisser
"Streaming passwords", "intimacy log" That's how you know the person who wrote it is old and out of touch lol. And tracking arguments is setting yourself up for disaster imo. You shouldn't look back and think about past negative experiences that you've had with someone, the past is the past. Keep walking forward and work on bettering yourselves and make each day the best it can be. Forgiving isn't hard.
Geigh Science
"Shabbat list"
oy vey