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Hey — it’s James
It's already week 26 of 2025—which means we've hit the halfway point of the year. Wasn’t New Year’s Eve just yesterday?
If you had set goals, intentions, or resolutions back in January, now’s a good time to check in. Are they still relevant? Are they still exciting? I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions anymore, but when I used to, I noticed something:
In Today’s Email 👀
New CSV Importer
Mobile Database Layout
Notion does Severance
Notion-style illustrations
Research Mode founding engineer
Primary use of comments
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3 Tips / Updates
1/ New CSV Importer
Notion has a new CSV Importer! What's changed?
You can now select the property type before importing
You can now visualize your database before import

Source: NotionHQ on X/Twitter
To access the CSV Importer, go to Settings
→ Import
→ CSV
2/ Mobile Database Layout
Notion databases have evolved a lot, especially with all their recent UI updates. They haven't forgotten mobile — they got a little facelift too!
Layout is cleaner
Filtering is now all in one menu
Size of the tap targets for header actions, view tab, and new page buttons has been increased

Source: NotionHQ on X/Twitter
3/ Severance-inspired website
This is the kind of marketing that really resonates with me. Notion brilliantly reimagined their website with an immersive Severance-inspired theme ↓
Tagline
The connected AI workspace where your outie and innie exist harmoniously.
Projects feature
Whether you’re tracking your department’s progress or planning the next waffle party, stay organized.
or a testimonial?
“Notion keeps us admin-free and focused on our mysterious and important work: refining numbers we barely understand.”
— Mark S., Department Chief
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2 Resources
1/ Notion-style illustrations
If you're looking for beautiful Notion-style illustrations for a website, project, or marketing material, I couldn't recommend Mary Amato's work more. She's been creating this style for years—actually one of the OGs of Notion-style illustrations—and drops new designs every month.
2/ Founding engineer behind Research Mode
Check out this interesting (and short) interview with Shannon Rhee, the founding designer behind Research Mode at Notion ↓
Fun chat with @shannonrhee, founding designer behind Research Mode, a new @NotionHQ product that launched just a month ago.
We get into:
- why we built it at all
- how to design waiting (yep, really!)
- surprising ways people are using it
- and what’s coming nextHope you enjoy
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