<h1 id="reading-2022-02-10">Reading 2022-02-10<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#reading-2022-02-10"></a></h1>
<h2 id="metadata">Metadata<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#metadata"></a></h2>
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<li>Ref:: <a href="https://www.notion.so/blog/data-model-behind-notion">Notion blog</a></li>
<li>Title:: The data model behind Notion's flexibility</li>
<li>Author:: Jake Teton-Landis</li>
<li>Year of publication:: 2021</li>
<li>Category:: Blog</li>
<li>Topic:: </li>
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<h2 id="notes-from-reading">Notes from reading<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#notes-from-reading"></a></h2>
<p>Everything you see in Notion is a block. Text, images, lists, a row in a database, even pages themselves — these are all blocks, dynamic units of information that can be transformed into other block types or moved freely within Notion</p>
<p><img src="https://www.notion.so/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,width=1920,quality=100/https://images.ctfassets.net/spoqsaf9291f/7aiA3EDv0NUB4D6UokLVTU/4d743d0ba925de44ef85684346889643/blocks-2.png" alt="block-basic" style="max-width:300px;display:block;margin:0 auto;"></p>
<p>The content attribute of a block is what stores the array of block IDs (or pointers) referencing those nested blocks</p>
<p><img src="https://www.notion.so/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,width=1920,quality=100/https://images.ctfassets.net/spoqsaf9291f/3q05C3cpoP2BwkZ0i4j9lO/25c6a5c9d591b1a6b61349272394b11b/blocks-3.png" alt="block-content-id" style="max-width:300px;display:block;margin:0 auto;"></p>

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