This site is built using the notetaking app Notion, which I use for managing a lot of my life (both professional and personal). Notion has a free plan that works fine for most individuals.

I simply have a section of my Notion that I choose to share publicly here. That version of the site looks quite plain, and has a nasty long URL:

I use a paid-for service called Super in order to turn this plain looking website with an ugly URL into something a bit slicker on bailey.work.

In terms of design, Super have templates you can use. I appreciate the simplicity of just using Notion as a back-end (’Content Management System’, or CMS) – it means I can’t fiddle too much with the design.

The cool thing about using Notion in this way is that within seconds I can update my website or launch a new page on the site, even from my phone.

Super has a free plan but only if you are happy using it on a super.site domain. Mine looks like this: https://bailey-kursar.super.site/. If you are on the free plan there’ll also be a ‘Built with Super’ badge visible on the site.

I pay $12 (~£10) a month for my site to be hosted on my own domain and for the ‘Built with Super’ badge to be removed.

There are cheaper options to Super (that create sites using Notion as the back end) with less functionality, but I can’t recommend them myself.

What I’m doing to improve the site

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