Publishing a blog with Notion Sites or with Typoza
You draft in Notion and publish with Notion Sites, and now strangers should find the posts.
Free to start, no card. You can export your posts at any time, on every plan.
A post published from Notion
- A notion.site address, or a paid domain add-on
- A title and description set for the site
- No RSS feed for readers to follow
- No email to subscribers when it goes live
A post published on Typoza
- Your own domain, included from Collective
- Its own title, description and share image
- In the sitemap and the RSS, Atom and JSON feeds
- Sent to your subscribers once the Letter is on
You drafted the post in Notion, and Notion Sites put it online with one switch. For notes shared with a team, or a page people open from a link you sent, that is all it takes.
A blog asks for more once readers are meant to find it on their own. Notion Sites lets you set a title, a description and a share image for the site, publishes no feed, and connects your own domain through a paid add-on on top of a paid plan.
Typoza does the publishing half and nothing else. Each post gets its own title, description and canonical address, structured data and a share image, then joins the sitemap and the RSS, Atom and JSON feeds as it goes out. Your own domain is part of the Collective plan, with no add-on.
Point by point
| What we compare | Typoza | Notion |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Publishing, and nothing else. | Notes, docs, databases and projects; publishing is one switch among many. |
| The editor | Blocks made for posts: code in tabs, callouts, spec sheets, galleries. | Nested pages, toggles, databases and relations on one canvas. |
| Search engines | Title, description and canonical address per post, with structured data. | A title, a description and a share image for the site. |
| Your address | A Typoza subdomain, or your own domain from the Collective plan. | A notion.site address, or your domain through a paid add-on. |
| Feeds | RSS, Atom and JSON Feed, updated when you publish. | None of its own. |
| Newsletter | The Letter: a sign-up form, and your posts by email. | None built in. |
| Search for visitors | None: readers browse by category and tag. | A search box in the header, if you switch it on. |
| Taking your content out | A Markdown and JSON archive, with the address of each image. | Markdown, HTML or PDF, for a page or a whole workspace. |
What Notion does better
Every comparison has this section, and it is never empty. We lose on these points:
- The editor. As a general writing surface, Notion's is better than ours: nested pages, toggles, databases and relations, all on one canvas.
- Your material is already there. Notes, drafts and research sit beside the page you publish; with Typoza, you carry the text from one tool to another.
- Databases. A table that doubles as a board and a calendar has no equivalent in Typoza, which has posts, pages, categories and tags.
- Live co-editing. Several people type in the same page at once; Typoza has roles, a review step and comments on the text, but no shared cursor.
- Search for your visitors. A Notion site can show a search box, and a Typoza site has none.
Moving from Notion
Our importer reads the WordPress export file and nothing else, so a Notion blog moves by hand: you copy each finished post into our editor.
What comes across
- The text and most of its shape. Copy a finished page and paste it: headings, lists, quotes and links come through.
- Clean addresses. A Notion link ends in a long page id; on Typoza you give each post a readable slug.
- Your domain, if it is registered in your name. Point it at Typoza from the Collective plan, and the certificate is handled for you.
- Notion itself. You can keep drafting there and publish on Typoza.
What does not
- Databases, and any blog built on one. Typoza has posts, pages, categories and tags, and nothing like a database view.
- Synced blocks, relations and rollups. Toggles and callouts have a match in our editor, which you set up again by hand.
- Your notion.site addresses. They cannot point at Typoza, so old links keep leading to Notion for as long as those pages stay published.
- Pictures, until you upload them again: the editor accepts only images stored in your library.
- Live co-editing, which Typoza does not offer.
So, which one?
Pick Notion if…
Notion is the better home for writing that serves a team or a few readers with the link, and for anyone who wants one tool for notes, projects and a website.
Pick Typoza if…
Typoza is the better home for posts written for strangers: each with its own title and description, listed in the feeds, and emailed to subscribers.
Questions people ask next
Can I just use Notion as my blog?
Yes. Notion Sites publishes a page and its subpages with one switch. You go without a feed and a newsletter, and your own domain costs an add-on. If readers reach you through links you share, that may cost you nothing.
What about Super, Potion or HelpKit?
They work, and they exist to turn Notion pages into a fuller website. The price is a second subscription, and a second place to look when something breaks.
Can I write in Notion and publish on Typoza?
Yes, and it is a sound arrangement. Draft in Notion, then copy the finished post into Typoza's editor: headings, lists, quotes and links come across, and you upload the images again.
Does Typoza have databases?
No. Posts, pages, categories and tags are the whole model. If you run your work from tables and boards, keep Notion for that part.
Does a custom domain cost extra on Typoza?
There is no add-on: connecting a domain you own is part of the Collective and Studio plans. Notion bills each custom domain as an add-on on top of a paid plan, so compare the totals for the number of sites you run.
The post you keep putting off
Write its first paragraph today. The post stays a draft until you publish it, and no reader sees it before then.
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