Notion portfolio or a page with a private side
Notion is a good place to think. Your notes, plans and drafts already live there, so turning one page into a portfolio feels natural. The question is what else goes public when you do. This note covers Notion's own publish steps, what third-party guides warn about, and a different setup: a public page with a private shelf beside it that never shows.
How to make a Notion page public
Notion's help page describes publishing in its own words. The short form: open the page, choose Share, then Publish. Read the current steps on Notion's help page for public pages and web publishing, since menus change.
Notion is good at this. You get a live page quickly, with your existing layout, and you can keep writing in the same tool.
What can go public with it
Two warnings appear in third-party guides, including summaries from notionapps.com and bullet.so. These are not Notion's words, so check them in your own workspace.
- Publishing a page makes its sub-pages public too.
- A published page can show editor names, photos or emails.
The first one matters most for a portfolio. You may have built your portfolio page inside a bigger workspace page, with client notes, rates or drafts nested under it. If those sit below the published page, they may be reachable.
A simple check: after you publish, open the public link in a private browser window, where you are signed out. Click every link and toggle. Anything you can reach there, anyone can.
A different shape: a page with a private side
inkoji is one page for everything you make, with a private shelf next to it called the vault. The page is public. The vault is private by construction, not by a setting you might forget.
What the vault is
The vault holds folders of cards. A card can be one of these kinds:
- status
- facts
- command
- path
- checklist
- note
- link
You might keep a checklist for a release, the path to a project folder, a command you always forget, or facts about a client job.
What keeps it private
A vault card is not on the page unless you put it there. Until you do, it is not in:
- the public page
- the page's JSON at
inkoji.com/<handle>.json - the HTML export
- the sitemap
- a snapshot
So there is no sub-page to leak and no nested link to follow. Visitors cannot reach the vault from the page because the page does not contain it.
Putting one card on the page
Sometimes a private note becomes worth sharing, like a status line for a project. Each card has a switch called "On my page". It is off by default. Only when you switch it on does that one card show on the page. The rest of the folder stays where it was.
The secret guard
The vault refuses anything that looks like a password or a key. Instead of the secret, you write where the secret lives, for example which password manager entry holds it. That way the vault never becomes the place a leaked key comes from.
Your AI can file cards
If you connect ChatGPT or Claude to inkoji, the same connection lets your AI file cards in the vault as it works. It can note the status of a build or a checklist for a launch without touching your public page. See let Claude keep your page up to date for the steps, and what an MCP connector is if the term is new.
Notion or inkoji: which fits
| You want | Better fit |
|---|---|
| Long written case studies in the tool you already use | Notion |
| A grid of your films, apps, songs and images | inkoji |
| Private notes that are not published with the page | inkoji's vault |
| A shared team wiki | Notion |
There is no need to pick only one. You can keep writing in Notion and link a published Notion page from a tile on your inkoji page. A link tile is free.
Look at a real page
A maker's page at inkoji.com/cyberyogi shows the public side: an HDR reel, apps, a matte painting and open-source work. Its data file is public:
curl https://inkoji.com/cyberyogi.jsonRead that file and you will find the tiles, and nothing from the vault. That is the point. Building and publishing the page is free; the paid year adds video, audio, PDFs and more images, as the pricing page explains.
What to do next
- If you publish from Notion, open the public link in a signed-out window and check every sub-page.
- Move client notes, rates and drafts out from under any page you publish.
- If you want a public page with a private shelf, build your inkoji page and keep working notes in the vault with "On my page" left off.
- Never paste a password or key into any notes tool. Write where it lives instead.
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