🤯 55 Mindblowing Notion Tips & Tricks

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In this video, I show 55 awesome Notion tips and tricks that will take you from beginner to advanced.

I cover a range of different tips from making your Notion pages more aesthetic to simple formulas and more.

Hopefully you find some value in these Notion tips and learned something new!

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Code for colored dividers: $$\color{red}\rule{5000px}{3px}$$

Timestamps:
0:00 - Adding emojis using colon
0:29 - How to add vertical dividers
1:22 - Drag & drop blocks into pages
2:16 - Use a kanban board to track progress
3:15 - Add grouping to databases
4:01 - Double click on columns to resize
4:28 - Drag a cell down to autofill
5:07 - Shortcut to duplicate blocks
5:34 - Add color to databases
6:29 - Use pre-made templates
8:48 - Add a date range
9:45 - Add a cover photo to gallery view
10:48 - Use Unsplash for cover photos
11:48 - Use image link for photos
12:48 - Change card size on gallery view
13:10 - Edit directly on gallery view
13:32 - Use recurring tasks
15:31 - Use column blocks
16:09 - Add columns within columns
17:46 - Change page width & font
18:34 - Use native progress bars
20:21 - Create multiple views of the same database
21:50 - Use synced blocks
23:56 - Add unique icons to pages
25:48 - Use GIFs as icons
26:51 - Add icons to databases
27:38 - Use @ to link to pages
28:09 - Hide database titles
28:44 - Wrap columns with a lot of text
29:13 - How to scroll horizontally
29:44 - Hide default page properties
30:26 - Set default icons for pages
31:40 - How to add colored dividers
32:50 - Favorite important pages
33:19 - Check out 'What's New' page
33:41 - Use callout blocks for headings
34:42 - Use shortcuts to add styling to text
35:47 - Change text color fast
36:46 - Use color to grab attention
38:08 - Set up reminders
38:48 - Use toggles to hide info
39:48 - How to add a divider fast
40:05 - Add levels to your lists
40:42 - Drag rows between databases
41:14 - Add regular tasks using a button
42:46 - Create a quick capture button
45:03 - Filter to see current tasks
45:57 - Filter out completed tasks
46:38 - Lock pages & databases
48:10 - Bulk change pages
49:07 - Use dark mode
49:37 - Add templates with buttons
50:52 - See images as a slideshow
51:33 - Switch to weekly calendar
52:18 - Export Notion page as a PDF

[tanalee]

Tipping back at ya:

You don't need to swipe a word/paragraph to select:
To select a WORD, just double-click it
To select a PARAGRAPH just triple-click it

To change the font style (bold/italic/underline) while typing:
CTRL-B makes the text bold CTRL-B --- no spaces needed
CTRL-I makes the text italicized CTRL-I --- no spaces needed

CTRL-U makes the text underlined CTRL-U --- no spaces needed

[Claire.SageGreenCreative]

This was amazing thanks so much! I like how friendly and encouraging your tutorials are. I feel like some of the bigger notion experts I feel silly for not knowing some of the things because they make it seem like super basic 🥰

[ave_smirnova]

Thank you very much !!!! I’m so happy to see girl as the notion content creator !

[antonvons]

Thank you. This and your other tips videos have helped me fine tune my Notion. I have just purchased your Travel Planner to further show my thanks and support. I see you provide a PDF doc as well. I'm sure by using this template I will learn a lot more.

[BigSaaSsolutions]

Thank you so much. This was such a big help.

[LetsTalkAI-dvoc]

You really helped me!!! great tips! some of them are really a life saving- thank you

[ambereleasexo]

love this tips video 💕 thank you and great job!

[temartins]

You saved my day! Tanks for the content!

[DocRock]

You are killing it. Appreciate you. Kanban (カンバン) is pronounced Khan Bhan (as in Genghis Khan and Autobahn not Can Ban🥫🚫). Sorry Japanese History major so I couldn't help it :P

[toddlichtenwalter]

Excellent tutorial! Bravo and thank you!✅

[AbidAliqwerty]

Great content. Clear, concise. Keep up the good work!

[moonlight]

The miost useful tutorial for notion i have ever seen

[tanalee]

Very helpful video.

I think I'm turning into a 74 year old groupie! I sit and watch your videos on my TV while eating/relaxing.

Later on, I go to Notion on my desktop computer next to your video playing on my laptop computer attached to a 22-inch screen, so i can follow as you "tute".

I confess that I set the playback speed on the video to .75. i Guess my ears don't hear fast anymore. : )

Your teaching skills are 5/5 stars.

[tanalee]

Commenting while watching...

I LOVE the colored dividers tip (31:48)! THANKS! 😊

[chri]

Enjoying your content thank you, I am big notion user

[erinhybart]

Great tips. I am newer to notion and this was helpful

[missfavoured]

Can you show how to create a table and following tab, without the entries being duplicated in any following tab of the table? This is what happens everything.

[Smitty]

10k views and over 3k subs! I remember when you only had double digits. Congrats
.

[tanalee]

Not to detract from your awesomeness in any way, but in one of your tutorials (this one?) you mentioned using custom font styles by a copy and paste method, which looked like it was pretty much copying an image of the text.

I want looking, but what to my eyes did appear was a tutorial by Made by Maisie called "Explaining Notion Techniques: KaTeX (custom colors, font size, center text)...

Much like your colored divider, she shows text in a bunch of sizes, colored text, colored boxes with borders, ... using KaTeX.

She was going pretty fast with a music background, and I'm watching on my TV from far away, so I i don't know much of the details, yet...

BUT, just in case you didn't know about this (and I'd be surprised if you don't), I thought I'd mention it. Great tutorial topic!

Again, not to rain on your exemplary videos. 😊

---Tana-Lee

PS: Er... You're in the UK. Rain is nothing new. So change that to "Not to pop any balloons" or "Not to be a party pooper" or... 😊

[fortunatodirado]

Hi, I have a db where every day I record an event. In the database I have two columns: [Current Datatime] and [Last Datatime].
Then I have a column [Elapsed Hours] where NOTION automatically calculates how many hours have passed between the two events (dateBetween).
Each time I have to write down the [Current Datatime] of the row and report it in the [Last Datatime] of the new row, in a manual way, with risk of getting it wrong.
Is it possible to automate via Template or Button the [Last Datatime] column so that automatically NOTION retrieves the [Current Datatime] value of the last detection and copies it into the [Current Datatime] of the new row?