Can I ask a question without everyone getting mad at me? Should Notion have a way to export Databases that includes the full view configuration? (.json or something else)
Seems like @jitl thinks it would be be a good idea. My gut feeling is that Notion's HTML export feature has only helped the bottom line, not hurt it. I don't think making it easy to export Databases would either.
@kepano I’ve spent a bit of time prototyping a “perfect fidelity” html format that encodes notion semantics as DOM structure & data attrs, so `import(export(page)) === page`; goal that you can edit export(page) and then sync it back in to notion. Harder with .md, extra data gets ugly.
@jitl That would be amazing, but perhaps a simpler option would be a flattened JSON file similar to what the API returns (with the API version number)
@kepano if json, why not “just” use api? galaxy brain part of html idea is to contenteditable the whole doc so anyone can edit offline in browser & save w cmd-s
@jitl a few reasons I can I think of: 1. Lower friction. Not all people are technical enough to use the API or even set up integration tokens. It's much easier to hit an "Export" button that gives you a file. 2. Async flow. Files let me run export and conversion operations separately.