Nota (Helpfeel) Internship Spring 2022 Experience

• In March 2022, I worked as an intern at Nota (now Helpfeel) and developed Scrapbox!

• This page is a testimonial of my internship experience.

• Things I want to talk about:

• For more information about the Nota internship, please check out these past testimonials:

  • After reading these, I thought it would be really fun and contacted them
  • [/daiiz/Joined the Nota Internship and Developed Scrapbox](https://scrapbox.io/daiiz/Joined the Nota Internship and Developed Scrapbox)
  • [/yutaro/Internship Experience of Developing Scrapbox in Kyoto](https://scrapbox.io/yutaro/Internship Experience of Developing Scrapbox in Kyoto)
  • [/progfay-pub/2018 Summer Internship Experience](https://scrapbox.io/progfay-pub/2018 Summer Internship Experience)
  • [/shokai/Article on the 2018 Summer Internship](https://scrapbox.io/shokai/Article on the 2018 Summer Internship)

1. Fun in creating things to use

• As a preface, I am a heavy user of Scrapbox
  • (It should be evident if you look at /blu3mo-public)
  • The Mist of the World and Scrapbox are my favorite software (?)
• I realized that it is fun to develop a product that I myself use (blu3mo)(blu3mo)(blu3mo)(blu3mo)
• What was fun:
  • Fun 1: Being able to create something I wanted
    • Implemented a feature that suggests links to external projects when typing [/ project-page name]
      • 
        • The fact that project name and page name can be in any order is a cool feature (blu3mo)
      • Although I didn’t have enough time to fully implement it, I was able to create something like this (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
    • External project links

      • @shokai: @blu3mo, an intern at Nota, created a feature that allows links and related pages to be connected for projects that are in my watch list even if I’m not participating in them.

      • This is an example where links from nishio-san’s scrapbox that I occasionally look at are displayed under my personal project.

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  • Fun 2: Being able to fantasize
    • During the internship, I enjoyed fantasizing about the direction and future of the product’s features
    • I’ve always enjoyed thinking about these things for products, so it was a lot of fun
    • Moreover, I had unlimited access to the philosophies and trial and error written in the company’s internal Scrapbox, so my imagination was greatly enhanced
    • (This is just (blu3mo)‘s imagination), but I even thought about the possibility of extending it as a search box associated with [/ ]

2. Fun in the environment

• Access to information
  • It was very enjoyable to have an environment where information is (available $\wedge$ organized $\wedge$ accessible) (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
    • Available:
      • Not just the conclusions, but also the process and reasons behind them
      • Naturally, the source of (/masui/増井俊之) is included
        • (Quoting the expression of (/daiiz/daiiz) in [/NotaAllStarsMeetup/Nota ALL STARS Meetup vol.3 Discussion and Q&A#623410bc97c29100005420dc](https://scrapbox.io/NotaAllStarsMeetup/Nota ALL STARS Meetup vol.3 Discussion and Q&A#623410bc97c29100005420dc))
        • There is something like a session where you can bask in the source of (/masui/増井俊之), and of course, the logs of those sessions are always available
    • Organized:
      • I really felt the power of Scrapbox in this regard
    • Accessible:
      • It was interesting, educational, and useful for development to be able to see the logs of past discussions about Scrapbox
  • It was fun to browse through various things even while working
    • TODO: Elaborate
    • I was able to learn what the sales, marketing, finance, HR, etc. teams were thinking, and personally, my understanding of the company deepened
    • There were also many interesting pages that were simply enjoyable as a fan- I got excited when I found the logs from when Scrapbox was named “Scrapbox” (?).
• There is simply a lot to learn.

• I like the atmosphere of constantly designing, maintaining, and operating the organization as if it were a product. (paraphrased from [shokai’s words], exactly as mentioned above) (blu3mo)(blu3mo)

• Personally, this was quite an impressive point for me, and I thought that this kind of organization/environment is great.
• There are no people who are in a state of mental stagnation.
• “Meetings with unnecessary synchronous communication” are eliminated, but it doesn’t mean that communication is excluded.
• There is communication and connection, and it was a very warm place.
• I thought it was an environment that is perfect for me. (blu3mo)(blu3mo)

3. Other thoughts §

(I will write my thoughts in a tweet-like manner that I forgot to write.)

• As a Scrapbox fan, I get excited about various little things.

• The moment I enter /nota

• For Scrapbox fans, scrapbox.io/Nota is known as the birthplace or a mysterious unexplored region. (There are various theories.)

• When you join Nota, you can see everything on scrapbox.io/Nota. I remember clicking on the invitation link with a solemn feeling on my first day of joining, after being hit by a nearby waterfall, meditating, and purifying my mind and body.

• I strongly agree with the above. (blu3mo)(blu3mo)(blu3mo)

• When Scrapbox runs locally.

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• I got excited when I was able to achieve behavior that couldn’t be achieved with UserScript.

• UserScript allows you to achieve almost anything, so when I was able to do something that would be impossible without touching the backend, I got excited.

• They were simply all good people.

• It was fun to evangelize The Mist of the World, another favorite software of (blu3mo).

• These are people who think about the experience and enjoyment of software.

• I regret oversleeping for the first setup Zoom on my internship’s first day.

• Maybe I can only work in companies with a fully flexible schedule. (blu3mo)

• (Note: Nota has a fully flexible schedule, and we only had 2-3 Zoom meetings, including this one.)

• As is often seen at the end of articles like this, I’ll include a recruitment link.

• Nota - Recruit