How (and why) I’m using Notion as my portfolio

If you’re a designer or a developer, chances are you have your own personal portfolio. You need to showcase your work for potential clients or job interviews.

However, you probably already have a job, client or something keeping you busy in your free time (maybe a child or, you know, a life).

Therefore, adding another development project to your agenda with your own custom-built portfolio is not optimal as it requires a lot of work to make it work properly and is a time-sink when it comes to updating it.

I had originally developed my portfolio using a combination of Angular and Netlify’s continuous deployment from GitHub. In fact, I actually wrote a story about that too. While this was a nice environment to work from (I am a huge fan of how easy Netlify is to use and deploy instant changes), I still had to make a tonne of changes quite regularly to my codebase when I wanted to update something. Not to mention, my day job involves a lot of Angular development, so the last thing I want to do after that is to develop more things in Angular!

For these reasons, I decided to check whether I could use Notion for my portfolio.

I use Notion pretty regularly for both work and general life organisation, so it felt like it would be a natural fit for my workflow to have my…