Agent skill · ericnordelo
lazy-reader-pages
Write Notion pages for a reader who will not read them. Turns research, analysis, or review work into a page that looks short, reveals its shape at a glance, and expands on demand. Covers framing, collapsible structure with numbered toggles, concise human language, and the Notion markdown and API details that bite. Use when publishing a study, guide, process document, runbook, or assessment to Notion.
What it needs
About 4k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Pages for lazy readers Assume the reader will not read the page. They will skim the titles, decide whether it applies to them, and open one section at most. Research nobody opens is worth nothing, so design for the skimmer: a page that looks short on arrival, reveals its shape at a glance, and expands only where the reader chooses. Every rule below serves that. Frame it before writing 1. Put the angle in the title. If the page exists to change how people work, the title should say so. "Incident Response" became "Incident Response by Design" once its purpose was to shape design decisions rather than describe a procedure. 2. Say who should read it and when, in the first two sentences. A reader deciding whether this applies to them should not have to guess. For example: "Most of it is about design, which is why it is worth reading before you add anything to the library, not on the day something breaks." 3. Open with plain paragraphs and no heading. Two or three at most: what the page is, then the one fact that makes everything else follow. 4. Put the single most important statement above the fold, in a callout or a quote. Never bury a load-bearing commitment, definition, or warning inside a collapsed section. If a reader must know one thing, they should not have to click for it. 5. Keep the front light. Prose, then at most one callout and one quote. If a paragraph and a quoted block make the same point, shorten the paragraph and let the quote carry the detail. Two shaded blocks in a row read as a wall. Structure 6. Use numbered toggle lists for the main sections, not toggle headings. Toggle lists are visually compact, and numbering makes a sequence read as a sequence. Ten to twelve top-level items fit on one screen collapsed, where the same count as headings does not. 7. State the outline tradeoff once. Toggle lists do not appear in Notion's page outline; toggle headings do. For a page whose collapsed view is already its own map, losing the sidebar is the right trade. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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