Tools What is Notion AI and how can I use it? Notion has released its native AI feature and it has a few cool tricks! Written by Jess Allison February 5, 2023February 5, 2023
Tools How to setup a project with subtasks and dependencies in Notion Here's how to get started with subtasks and dependencies in your Notion project, and a few things to watch out for! Written by Jess Allison January 26, 2023January 26, 2023
Life (outside work) How to manage your Christmas gift budget and ideas using Google Sheets Here's how to track gift ideas and manage your Christmas gift budget with help from a spreadsheet. Ho ho ho! Written by Jess Allison December 11, 2022December 11, 2022
Life (outside work) Organisation Tools How to setup a film and TV watchlist in Notion Here's how I use Notion to manage our shared household film and TV watchlist, as a curated subset what's relevant to us, as opposed to being governed by all the algorithms. Written by Jess Allison November 7, 2022January 11, 2023
Tools How to track blog post ideas across your iPhone and computer This is a system I figured out... today! Using the Notes app on my iPhone alongside Notion on my computer to keep track of blog post ideas for this very blog. How meta. Written by Jess Allison October 22, 2022October 22, 2022
Tools How to secure your online accounts using a password manager Data security is a hot topic right now! Here's how you can protect yourself from hackers, and minimise impacts of a data breach. Written by Jess Allison October 12, 2022October 12, 2022
Tools How to setup two-factor authentication with the Google Authenticator app 2FA (two-factor authentication) is my BFF and should be yours too, IYKWIMAITYD. Written by Jess Allison October 1, 2022October 12, 2022
Tools How we use Photoshop and Google Slides for feature image creation A peek behind the magic curtain, at the sourcery that is our feature image creation process. Written by Jess Allison September 21, 2022September 25, 2022
Tools Check out our YouTube channel For those who prefer watching over reading, we got you: Producing Paradise has its very own YouTube channel! Written by Jess Allison September 21, 2022January 6, 2023
Tools How to batch resize images using Automator This is how to quickly batch resize images using the built-in Automator app on a Mac. Written by Jess Allison September 14, 2022September 25, 2022
Tools How to get the best out of Siri This is how I use Siri as my very own personal assistant, including the basic features and the ones I use the most. Written by Jess Allison September 10, 2022January 6, 2023
Tools How to use the Momentum Chrome extension to hone focus This is how I use the Momentum Chrome extension to hone focus each day, and how this works alongside my personal dashboard in Notion. Written by Jess Allison September 7, 2022September 14, 2022
Tools How to create a Google Slides theme Creating a Google Slides theme lets you easily reuse the same font, layout and colour styling on every new slide deck. Here's how you do it! Written by Jess Allison August 31, 2022September 25, 2022
Tools How to setup Notion for book content management I’ll show you how to start a Notion database from scratch to manage content for a book: how to do it, what fields to use, and a couple of basic filtered ‘views’. If you’re writing a book, I hope this helps you too! In this video (9min), I walk you through how to setup Notion […] Written by Jess Allison July 13, 2022September 25, 2022
Tools How we use: WordPress for this blog Why did we choose WordPress.org for this blog and why is it different to WordPress.com? Here's our take, along with the steps we took to set up this blog. Written by Producing Paradise June 9, 2019August 10, 2022
Tools How I use: Dropbox for iPhone photo storage and backup Or in other words: how to stop clogging up your phone storage with photos, by taking them off your phone and putting them in Dropbox (cloud file hosting). Written by Jess Allison May 5, 2019January 6, 2023
Tools Forwarding to multiple addresses in Gmail Gmail offers forwarding to one email at a time by default. Here’s how we got around it using forwarding addresses and filters. Written by Jess Allison February 13, 2019September 25, 2022
Tools How we use: Trello for to do lists If you’re asking yourself ‘what on earth is a Trello?’ then this is the post for you. Learn how to use Trello for managing your to-dos. Written by Jess Allison December 22, 2018July 31, 2022