Notion's New Database Buttons: Everything You Need to Know

Notion's new Database Buttons feature lets you create automations directly in database properties. Here's how to use it!

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⏱️ Timestamps:
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00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Vote Tracker Demo
00:56 - Task Tracker Demo
01:28 - Button Blocks Recap
01:51 - Vote Tracker Tutorial
03:30 - Task Tracker Tutorial
05:38 - My Thoughts and Critiques

[chrisdziewa]

I try not to mess with my Notion dashboard too much or I end up spending more time building than being productive, but I always appreciate your videos for staying up to date on the latest Notion features in case I see something I want to add. Thanks for another great video!

[PLEASE-FOCUS]

Thank you for using your influence to put the pressure on Notion in a constructive and respectful manner. They clearly need it..

[althepal]

Definitely agree about not being able to increment a number property. One of my biggest use cases for these would be keeping track of something like how many cups of water I have in a day. I currently have a button inside each of my "day" pages that, when clicked, adds a page to a separate database called "Water", which relates back to the day so I can count the related entries. While this does make it so I can click a button and it counts up my water for the day, it's still a massive workaround that requires an entirely separate database for no reason. I would love to see buttons be able to increment number properties, either by 1 or by a custom amount.

Great video, wasn't expecting this update!

[ThatAdamGuy]

Oh man, so spot on re wishlist! This was EXACTLY my first thought when I saw this feature... that it'd be so great to say "copy the date in the Recur field" or "set the date to 1 week ahead" or whatnot.

[GeorgeCockerill]

Agree on setting date properties as dynamic values - this would unlock a big number of possibilities for task management. Deferring, snoozing, recurring, bringing forward, do today, etc. Also, being able to have "move to" as a step option would be useful, for example in triage-like workflows such as processing an inbox of captured items.

[mrpugo]

Great!

I have to update all my Notion templates in the upcoming month to add all these awesome new features.

Great video and explanation as usual!

[The_Clever_Duck]

Amazing content as always and so fast!

One thing I would absolutely love from Notion (especially with the latest release of Notion Calendar) is the ability for buttons to set the start time and end time of a single property by clicking buttons.

Having “Now” is great but we should be able to create a range rather than using 2 properties and a formula to show the range on the calendar that you don’t have the ability to adjust.

[sonicscapepro]

Another great video. Always appreciate your suggestions for future implementation. It's just as important to know what these things CAN'T do yet so we don't spend hours of time thinking or searching. Appreciate your videos always!

[MondSemmel]

This is a neat new feature! Up to this point, for tasks I marked as Done, I had to use a Make automation in order to set the Done Date to the Last Edited Time. Now a Notion button can do the same thing by setting the Done Date to Now, as shown in your Task Tracker example.

[savethecreators]

Fantastic review as always Thomas! Will be using this ASAP.

[benjaminlloveras]

This is amazing
Thanks for the video! Its very useful

[AnnieFangg]

Awesome video, super excited to use database buttons! 100% will test out triggering formulas with them 😄

We set up an automation so that when something is set to a certain status it updates a date field. Eg: we change the status to "Done" and it updates the "Completed by" field to the time and date it is now. We're also using this to track project approved date, kickoff date, sign off date, etc. You don't need separate buttons for every stage, you can just use the status property to trigger the automations. I will caveat this also depends on if you want a matching status for all the things you want to track the date for. It's possible someone might want to keep it simple for the main users using the status property, and keep something like "signed off" or "approved" for the few with that responsibility to do so. There's a million ways to solve the same problem in notion and I think that's what makes it so fun to use.

What I would love is for an automation or button to update the start and end dates separately in the same field. Aka when status is set to "In progress" it sets the start date, and when it's "Done" it adds the end date

[OmgItsKavi]

thanks for the video. i was about to be excited about this feature but i think it's limitations make it a bit useless for me right now. hopefully they implement your suggestions!

[SteveBox]

Database updated, task completion button & completion date formula added! Useful video, once again...thank you!

[kraabol.mp]

The two biggest things I've noticed with notion in my first week of use is lacking offline availability and the lack of a task manger view for databases to make having toggled to do lists be more user friendly to use on both mobile and desktop.

I appreciate your tutorials and free templates that have gotten me started building my second brain. I integrated your video template with the para dashboard, updated the DB templates to my liking and added an inventory system to keep track of my belongings!

[JasonRipley]

Hello, Thank you for the video. Do you think we can fill the key field of the table with the button using a formula ? Like updating the field with a unique key.

[philsealey]

What tools are you using here to register mouse clicks and keyboard key downs? super smooth

[ved.shankar]

For the multi-stage button, I would imagine a button as 'Next Step' and an if-then statement to show each stage as it progresses (if already 'Editing', then 'Review')

For the dates, it might be a bit more complicated. A working solution could be date properties as a formula but that's a lot for this use case I feel.

Thanks for the video! :)

[ChibiKeruchan]

This made UX so much better on my templates

[liamblu]

Let's create a global database with all Notion bugs and vote on which to fix first. How does that sound?

Thanks for updating us Thomas!