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      <title>Showing my Notion onboarding flow; would love feedback</title>
      <dc:creator>Ahmed Alsayad</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/ahmedateffekt/showing-my-notion-onboarding-flow-would-love-feedback-3o91</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Quick context; We've been building TimeKnot, a native time tracker for Notion. It originally launched as a Clockify integration, but users kept asking why they needed a second tool just to track time on their Notion tasks. So I rebuilt it from scratch to run natively.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What you'll see:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Connecting Notion via OAuth&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Picking which database to pull tasks from&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mapping your Notion columns (status, project, due date)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Starting a timer on a real task&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The whole flow from sign up to first tracked minute is under 60 seconds, which was the goal.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Tech stack
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Next.js 16 (App Router)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Supabase&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Notion API (OAuth + database reading)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tailwind v4&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Resend&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Honest feedback welcome
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A few things I'd love your take on:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Is the Notion connection flow clear?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Does the column mapping step make sense or is it confusing?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Once you're in the app, is it obvious what to do next?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Anything confusing? Anything we should cut? Roast it :) &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you want to try it: &lt;a href="https://timeknot.app" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://timeknot.app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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