Who is Red Gregory?
Notion blogger and formula educator. Known for redgregory.com, a near-daily Notion blog that worked through formulas, rollups and database design one specific problem at a time from 2019 to 2023.
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“I keep hitting Red Gregory links that go nowhere, and I want to know who she was and whether her Notion formula work is still worth digging up.”
This page sets out what she published, when, and where each piece of it can still be reached. It is explicit about the two domains that have lapsed and now point at unrelated sites, so you stop clicking them. It does not reproduce her posts, and it cannot tell you whether she plans to write again.
The earliest page the Internet Archive holds from redgregory.com is dated 21 November 2019 and titled "How to Make a Minimal Progress Bar in Notion". She had been using the app for about two months when she wrote it. Describing the launch later, she put the method plainly: "I had only been using it for a couple months, so my goal was to teach as I learn."
The habit stuck. By 2020 the blog was split into sections for Templates, Dashboards, Databases, Functions, Formulas, Relations, Design and Basics, and her about page called the schedule a full-time job with daily updates. She wrote that blog views nearly doubled every month into the summer of 2020. A YouTube channel followed in mid-2020, and the weekly newsletter moved from Mailchimp to Substack in July 2021.
The audience outlasted the writing. Her YouTube channel holds 74,500 subscribers across 118 videos, @RedGregory1 has over 25,000 followers, and her Gumroad shop lists 41 Notion products carrying a 4.9 average across 167 ratings. Her X bio describes her as a Notion ambassador.
The domain came first, the subject came second
She had bought redgregory.com some time before she had anything to put on it. In a July 2021 newsletter she described what happened next: "with no side project in the works and a desire to launch something, I started writing content about a program called Notion." She was two months into the app and applied the same teach-while-learning approach to Roam and RemNote, both of which kept their own sections in the site navigation for years afterwards. What made the Notion writing land was that she published from inside the problem, posting the workaround the same week she found it, with the working formula pasted into the page.
Formulas were the part of Notion nobody else would sit with
Most Notion blogs in 2020 were template galleries. Hers gave Functions, Formulas and Relations their own top-level categories. On 31 December 2019 she posted a workaround for using rollups inside Notion formulas, and that became the shape of the signature piece: name a specific limitation, show the expression that gets around it, hand over the text to copy. She later packaged the material as a $45 Gumroad course, Learn Notion Formulas, sold as a crash course in Notion's formula language and how it talks to other database properties, aimed at beginners. When Notion finally shipped native progress bars in August 2022 she posted "R.I.P to my progress bar formula content" and called it a good day for Notion users.
She kept telling readers she was not an expert
The about page stayed strikingly modest for a site pulling that much traffic. "I'm learning how to use Notion.so as much as anyone else," it read. "I don't want to come off as an 'expert'. I just want to share cool things I'm making on the app with straight forward explanations, formulas and databases to copy into the reader's own dashboard." The footer added its own line: not affiliated with Notion, an appreciation blog exclusively. The framing survived the shift into selling. In September 2022 she wrote about building an e-commerce site for Notion templates and tools, run out of a hub she had built inside Notion to roadmap products, log changes and keep formatting consistent across templates. The lesson she said she needed most was that a good template cannot speak for itself, and that each one needs written documentation plus a Loom walkthrough.
The last posts were about Formulas 2.0, and then the domain went
Notion rewrote its formula language in 2023 and she came back for it. The blog front page was reset with a note that Notion had had a major update and it was time to start fresh with new tutorials, followed by two articles in October 2023: a project time tracker, and a way to track project progress without rollups using the new map() function. Those are the last posts. The final YouTube upload, on building a second brain in Notion, went up in May 2023, and the last visible post on her X account is from December 2023. On Gumroad the Notion catalogue now sits under a header she wrote herself, "Notion (no longer updated)", above a newer line of Goodnotes paper templates. Both redgregory.com and redgregory.me have lapsed since and resolve to unrelated sites, so the 372 article pages captured by the Internet Archive are where the blog survives.
Why Red Gregory is on this list
For four years redgregory.com was the free reference the Notion community reached for when a formula refused to behave, at a stretch when Notion's own documentation covered almost none of the formula language. Rollup workarounds, date arithmetic, text parsing and progress bar tricks all arrived with the expression written out in full, so a reader could paste it into a database and get back to work. She published that material while openly still learning it, which is a harder thing to do in public than it looks.
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