I’m currently spending quite a few operations to get my scenario and operations data out of Make and into Notion, where I can analyze it much better.
Make is very fun to use — as long as you don’t have to think about operations. These days, I have to be quite careful when deciding to start a new scenario, and I’ve often wondered where all my operations go. Of course, I know there’s an operations counter in the scenario view, but with 40+ folders, 200+ scenarios, and a monthly reset on that counter, it just doesn’t cut it for me.
What I’m currently doing:
I have a database in Notion with all my scenarios, which are linked to the business processes they’re part of. Once a week, I sync all the operations data into my Notion workspace. This allows me to:
• Track costs over a longer period,
• Calculate the “cost per year” for every scenario,
• Roll up those costs to the process database.
Seeing that I spend only about €50 a year on automating otherwise labor-intensive tasks is super helpful. On the flip side, identifying scenarios where I’m splurging on automating low-value tasks is equally insightful.
Statuses and costs of my “Bookkeeping” scenarios right inside the dashboards where they are relevant is super valuable for us
Having a much longer history of my operations usage helps me understand the value and cost of any given scenario.
The Irony:
This process is great and all, but ironically, the scenarios I use to get this data into Notion consume 20–25% of my total operations! I won’t be able to keep doing this for long.
It would be much more helpful to have deeper insights into this data directly in Make. Right now, it’s not even possible to sort scenarios by their operations or data usage!