notion-to-md VS Publii

This is very cool! I recently started managing my Astro site content with Notion as a CMS, thanks to `notion-to-md` [1] and `@notionhq/client` [2] but media management is a hassle.

I had been planning to re-host Notion media files to Cloudflare R2 and rewrite content, but it might just be simpler to use Pages CMS due to built-in R2 support.

But also, I like using Notion apps on the go. Hmm.

[1] https://github.com/souvikinator/notion-to-md

I’ve never used it, but there’s a Notion to Markdown converter on GitHub: https://github.com/souvikinator/notion-to-md

Notion works with content blocks. Each paragraph and each formatted section is a block on its own. Fetching that from Notion gets me a load of nested objects that are cumbersome to work with. I'm using NotionToMarkdown to take care of that. This will give me a markdown string from a Notion page that's easy to work with. Beware it’s just a markdown string, though. Using it in a template will output the unrendered string. But if we put that into a markdown file, from which eleventy will generate pages, it will also render the markdown string to HTML.

One can add custom parsing logic for specific blocks. More details here

Thanks to everyone for using notion-to-md and actively contributing and reporting issues. It has now 200+ stars on GitHub and 1000+ weekly downloads on NPM.

Haven’t done that myself, but I do know there’s a Notion to markdown converter that seems like it might be worth checking out.

Github: https://github.com/souvikinator/notion-to-md

Those have complicated stacks that likely won't serve the person that can't grasp a CLI SSG.

https://getpublii.com has a simple GUI and is just a directory on your computer (inside the Dropbox directory for crude backup?).

Very nice! It looks a bit like Publii [0], but the editor part is cloud hosted instead of running as an app on your machine.

[0] https://getpublii.com/

Publii is one of the few competent attempts at a desktop CMS app.

https://getpublii.com/

They do a lot of things right.

Most SSGs, or if you want to have it easy: https://getpublii.com/ - generates static sites, can publish to github pages (among others), has themes.

I also consider https://getpublii.com interesting, but I have not yet had any personal experience with it.

I'd like to ask for some help regarding on how to "migrate" my website to my personal storage, more specifically how to do that while having everything made with Publii.

I haven't used it, but Publii[0] might be along the lines of what you're thinking of. I ran across it in a previous HN discussion, and it seems to be static site generator with a pretty user-friendly graphical interface.

[0]: https://getpublii.com/