RacketHub vastly reduces the number of tools that you’ll need to use and the number of software licenses for which you’ll need to pay. By embracing a modern solution, you’ll be able to more easily manage projects, communicate with team members, and save time trying to find documents and messages from others. 

Much of your job involves conducting research—a process that can quickly spiral out of control.

Prolific author and ghostwriter Phil Simon designed RacketHub very much with this in mind. RacketHub serves many purposes for ghostwriters, but it’s particularly good at tracking and analyzing research sources.

Beyond research, you’ll quickly warm to the system and track your clients’ projects in a way that you simply cannot with a hodgepodge of disparate, disconnected tools.

Notion is an all-in-one magnet app with more than 9 million users and 4 million customers as of this writing. From its onset, it has embraced blocks. Notion turns the idea of a standalone Word Doc, Google Sheet, or database on its head.

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No, being able to use RacketHub effectively does not necessitate an advanced understanding of—or experience with—Notion. With any new system, however, there’s always a learning curve. Notion and RacketHub are no exceptions to this rule.

That’s why Racket Publishing founder Phil Simon provides four 45-minute personalized training sessions to all new RacketHub clients recorded over Zoom. Yep, your purchase includes three full hours of individual instruction.

You can read this short document here.

No, but it makes the process easier. Big difference.

After making the purchase, Racket founder Phil Simon will contact you ASAP to arrange two 45-minute onboarding sessions. During that time, the two of you will either:

• Set up a new Notion Workspace.
• Add him as a guest to your exisitng workspace.

After the requisite permissions get ironed out, Simon will import RacketHub into your Notion workspace and the first session begins.

Since RacketHub runs on the Notion app, you can access it on any device you like. 

No. You’ll still probably want to write the manuscript in Microsoft Word or Scrivener and take meetings via Zoom. What’s more, your designer will lay out the book in Adobe InDesign.

Still, RacketHub dramatically reduces the number of tools you’ll need to get your professional book out there.

RacketHub requires a paid Notion plan. (The Plus plan should suffice, depending on your team’s size.) Depending on how much you use Notion’s native AI tools, you may want to pony up an additional $8 to $10 per month per member.

No, you won’t find it on the marketplace. Clients will get more out of RacketHub through the three hours of personal training that you’ll get when you buy it.

RacketHub runs on Notion, and Notion runs on Amazon Web Services. It looks something like this:

RacketHub lives on Notion. If there’s a Notion bug, then you’ll have to contact the company and open a support ticket. If RacketHub isn’t working properly, just fill out the simple form inside it.

Unfortunately, no. Racket founder Phil Simon will, however, give you a free, customized 15-minute product demo. Click here to set that up.

Yes. You bought it. You can tweak existing databases, add and remove fields (technically, called properties in Notionland), create new database views, add formulas, and whatever else you like. Note that you needn’t know how to code to make the vast majority of changes.

But …

Your changes may break existing RacketHub functionality.

It’s always wise to duplicate a page or database in case you make a mistake. Proper Notion customers can also effectively travel back in time and reverse an error.

If you want additional customizations and tweaks, you can hire RacketHub creator Phil Simon here.

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RacketHub sits on top of Notion, so it runs on any device. If you’d prefer not to download the standalone Notion app for your desktop or laptop, have at it in a contemporary browser.

You can use RacketHub for as many of your books as you like. The operative word in that last sentence is your. You cannot white-label or resell RacketHub. For more information on this topic, see the license agreement.

Authors, book coaches, and publishers will want create separate Notion databases, pages, and templates for each title. Put differently, you’ll quickly confuse yourself—and the others on your team—if you attempt to fuse two or more book projects into the same buckets.

I can’t stop you, but I wouldn’t recommend it. TL;DR: You’ll encounter a bevy of problems and waste time. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Now for the longer answer.

Notion ships with a decent number of styles—and RacketHub embraces them. Still, never mistake Notion for a proper word-processing program. You wouldn’t use a stapler to build a house.

Make no mistake: When writing a manuscript of 30,000 words or more, document styles matter. This goes double when your book moves to the design phase. Laying out a book requires a professional program, typically Adobe InDesign. The latter can easily read Word’s styles.

In theory, you could write a simple manuscript with minimal styles in Notion and then export it to Word. You’re going to have to do a great deal of rework, though. 

Yes. RacketHub is comprehensive, but you can easily customize it as needed. For instance, RacketHub ships with tasks related to the book’s index. Say you’re writing a nonfiction book. Since those tend to ship with indexes, you’ll want to keep those tasks. Authors writing children’s books can simply archive those tasks. Ditto if you opt not to do an audiobook, ebook, and the like.

No, you don’t.

Because RacketHub is pretty involved, licensing includes 90 minutes of personalized training over Zoom that I’ll record and send to you.

You can find pricing information at the bottom of this page.

Yes. If you refer a customer to Racket Publishing who buys RacketHub, you will earn a 10 percent commission. Click here to sign up.