Notion Masterclass: Maximise Your Productivity & Organisation vs Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional Certificate
Same Bayesian formula, same rubric — so the difference in scores reflects the difference in the courses, not the difference in how we evaluated them.
Skillshare · Business & Marketing
Notion Masterclass: Maximise Your Productivity & Organisation
Google Career Certificates (Coursera) · Business & Marketing
Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional Certificate
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Notion Masterclass: Maximise Your Productivity & Organisation
24 lessons across fundamentals, databases, relations, rollups and a LifeOS dashboard. Praised for clarity and the database section. Capped because 1h45m is brisk for a full LifeOS build and cannot match Marie Poulin's depth.
Ali Abdaal is one of the most-watched productivity instructors on YouTube and reviewers describe him as warm, clear and motivating. Critics on Hacker News flag his content as anxiety-inducing and his LifeOS as overcomplex.
Included in Skillshare's ~$14/month subscription, plus 10+ free Notion templates built exclusively for Skillshare students. Cited on HN as the canonical case of a productivity creator earning $40-60k/month from Skillshare.
The LifeOS dashboard, relations-and-rollups walkthrough and weekly review structure are the most reused frameworks. Capped because the eight-database system is heavy and reviewers report copying templates verbatim.
Notion fluency and database design transfer directly to marketing and ops roles, and Abdaal uses the same setup to run a 15-person business. Limit is overhead — several HN commenters describe abandoning Notion systems built this way.
Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional Certificate
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