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Onboarding handbook
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Welcome to the team. This page covers everything you need in your first two weeks — accounts, expectations, and where to find people.
Your first week
- Set up Notework, Slack, and 1Password
- Read the engineering principles
- Pair on a real ticket with your buddy
- Ship one small change to production
Tip. If anything in this handbook feels stale, edit it. That's how it stays useful.
Onboarding
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Welcome to the team. Your first two weeks.
- Set up Notework
- Read principles
- Pair on a ticket
- Ship a change
Desktop·Tablet·Phone—One workspace, anywhere.
Why switch
Notion, but without the bloat.
Same building blocks — pages, databases, sub-pages. None of the slowdown, AI clutter, or weeks of setup before it works.
Slows down at the worst times.
- Loads slow once your workspace gets real.
- Half the menu is AI features you didn't ask for.
- Issue tracking means bolting on a third tool.
- New hires spend their first week getting lost.
- Permissions that quietly do the wrong thing.
Stays fast as you grow.
- Snappy on every page, every day, no matter the size.
- No AI agents, summarizers, or pop-ups. Just the editor.
- Issues, tasks, and roadmaps built in — same workspace.
- Sidebar that still makes sense at 500 pages.
- Permissions you can explain in one sentence.
Same flexibility. Less mess.
Three surfaces
Pages, projects, and collections — with clearer boundaries.
Three building blocks. Each does one job well. Together, they replace the patchwork most teams cobble out of Notion, Linear, and Asana.
Pages for writing that stays connected to work.
Specs, notes, policies, handbooks. The page editor supports real structure — comments, breadcrumbs, publishing — not just a text field.
↳ The page editor.
Engineering principles
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What we believe
Ship small. Show your work. Read other people's code more than you write your own.
Code review
- Approve when it's better than what's there
- Comment with intent, not nitpicks
- Disagree with reasoning, not authority
Note. Start typing. Formatting is there when you need it.
Projects that keep the workspace readable.
Group work by product, team, or initiative. Open or private. The workspace stays scannable as it grows.
↳ A project sidebar.
Workspace
12 projectsEngineering wiki
47 pages · Open
Q4 product roadmap
23 pages · Open
Brand & design
31 pages · Open
People ops
12 pages · Private
Finance
8 pages · Private
Collections for structured work.
Issues, tasks, calendars, roadmaps. Every item is still a page — context stays attached to the work, not trapped in a row.
↳ A collection board view.
Sprint backlog
To do
3Update onboarding
Fix CSV import bug
Add bulk archive
In progress
2Search v2
iOS push notifications
Done
4Mobile auth
Offline sync
How it works in practice
From spec to issue tracker without switching tools.
A real workflow, end to end. Same workspace, same pages — no copy-pasting between Notion, Linear, and Asana.
Write a spec in a Page.
Link a Collection for tracking.
Open an issue as a full page.
Assign owners and priorities.
Comment on the work directly.
FIG 04 ·How a spec becomes work.
On every device
Your workspace, off the desk.
Phone, tablet, laptop — the same workspace. Native iOS and Android apps that pick up exactly where you left off on the web.
Or open the camera
Scan to install on your phone
Onboarding
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Welcome to the team. Your first two weeks.
Onboarding handbook
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Welcome to the team. Here's what your first week looks like.
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# Onboarding handbook
> Updated: 2026-05-11
## Your first week
- [x] Set up Notework
- [x] Read principles
- [ ] Pair on a ticket
- [ ] Ship one changeExport everything as Markdown. Import from Notion and CSV. Your data is portable — not locked in.
Coming from Notion?
Bring your workspace over.
Import your pages and structured data, then keep working. Migration is a product feature, not an afterthought.
- Import Notion exports
- Import CSV into Collections
- Keep docs and structured work together
- Reduce setup work after the move
1,284 pages · 12 databases
✓ Headings, comments, structure preserved
FIG 05 ·A typical Notion import.
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- Granular permissions per project
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