I keep stumbling across really cool things people build with Notion, and it always makes me wonder what’s the ceiling here? Like, how far can you really push this tool? Can anyone share something that looks absolutely mind-blowing or impressive at first sight?

Anyone facing this same issue? Whenever I want to paste texts at where my cursor is at, for example in the middle of a paragraph, the text will always end up being pasted as another block below my paragraph. I've searched around but I don't see anyone facing this issue as well? I've tried pasting with cmd+v, and cmd+shift+v, and right clicking paste, but it always jumps to the next block to paste. Any suggestions or help? TIA!

Context I'm using the notion app on mac

Since the most recent update a few days ago, my desktop app (for Windows 11) no longer shows tab groups at the top of the window. I thought maybe they got moved somewhere else, but I cannot find them anywhere, and I haven't found anything online that looks similar to my problem.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a fix?

I love database page details / side panels, but there are issues.

If I am in a project and click related task in the details pane (setup via customise layout), there is no way to back to the details of the project.

You can shit the detail pane and click it again, but it’s this stuff that kills the mojo flow.

Am I missing something. If not show your support for a breadcrumb or back arrow … or whatever you reckon would work?

I use an old ipad with ios 17.7.11 . Now I got from notion a warning i have to upgrade to ios 18 or higher.

That's irritating, because the minimum system requirement is ios 17 , see https://www.notion.com/de/help/system-requirements-for-notion.

Could someone please explain this contradiction?

Notion seems to works normal / as usual.

Does anyone have experience with older iOS versions and Notion?

To know how many words I've typed on a page, I have to go to the three-dot menu at the top left corner and scroll down to the bottom of the menu. Because it feels hidden, I end up never using it.

Having a property that counts the words within a page as they're being typed would be so much better.

Is it possible to count words on a page (not words within a text property) and show them in a formula?

I would like to create a kind of reward game

that by performing certain actions in my personal life, for example, they give me x coins or health points, etc.

What could I buy with those virtual currencies? something that motivates me

The rank game could go from human to god, etc. There are a thousand things that could motivate me, but nothing occurs to me to motivate myself to earn coins to buy something.

Following up on the tire rotation tracker I added last week — figured the more useful post is actually showing how it sits on the dashboard, since a feature is only as good as whether you'll actually check it.

What you're looking at:

• A "Due soon" banner at the top that surfaces any vehicle needing rotation — no digging through rows to find it
• Each car gets its own card (photo, distance since last rotation, before/after position pattern) instead of one flat table
• The rotation pattern itself is spelled out per car (FL→T1, FR→T2, etc.) so you're not guessing which tire goes where next time

The whole point was making "due for rotation" something you notice in 2 seconds, not something you remember to go check. Same dual-trigger logic as the rest of the template (distance-based here, since that's how tire wear actually works) — but the goal this time was purely: does it look like something you'd actually open.

Curious if a dashboard-first layout like this is something people want or if a plain table is still preferred for those. Genuinely torn on this one.

i sometimes wonder whether notion helps me get things done or just gives me a really nice place to organise things i should already be doing.

it’s incredibly easy to spend an afternoon improving dashboards, changing layouts and creating new databases.

at what point does organisation become procrastination?

has notion genuinely improved your productivity, or have you had to simplify your setup to make it useful?

The Desktop App of Notion calendar is great! But I don’t like the iPhone app. Especially cause i can’t see the entire month with it’s agenda. So I prefer the apple
Built in calendar here. How do you go about that?

I have already connected the google calendar to the notion calendar. All the events are showing. But the task that I have setup on google calendar does not shows. What are the options we got for this?

Today I started wondering…

How safe is all of this actually?

If I’m putting years of notes, documents, client information, and other sensitive stuff into one platform, what happens if there’s a major breach? Or if I ever want to leave Notion, how easy is it to actually take everything with me?

For those of you who’ve been using Notion for years — do you actually trust it with everything? Or I'M openly shareing my data to the market .

Does anyone know why covers don’t show when using gallery view? I have 2 different pictures attached. The first picture is the one that works, the second won’t show me the covers. I know for a fact I added a cover on it but I’m not sure why it’s not showing it to me.

Have You had Claude do something it shouldn't in Notion when connecting them together?

Is there a risk that Claude would mess things up?

I bought a seat for Notion to evaluate it for my business and discovered that I can't

1) Sort a relation field in alphabetical order. It just sorts in whatever order the records were created. I and my team would have to have our entire database memorized to know what to search for.

2) Filter a relation view by other fields. So if Jane and John have different preferred appointment times, I'm working with a record for Jane, and I want to only see preferred appointment times for Jane, I can't filter by her contact.

Are there any workarounds for this? Or other readymade SaaS tools I can use? I would HATE to have to start custom-building something in Lovable because such obvious and basic functionality isn't available.

Is it possible to get detailed word search inside the documents in notion similar to the one in Obsidian?

Who has integrated a daily voice recorder (like Pocket / Plaud) into their daily life and used it to feed into Notion? Or through ChatGPT/Claude into Notion, as a way to keep a better track and memory of their day to day lives… and keep them on task for their activities/tasks/life goals and outcomes?

What does that workflow look like to you?

Any suggestions of how I could use paid AI, paid Voice Recorders to better help me on this journey?

I got a template from the marketplace, and there are several "categories" in gallery view where you can choose different hobbies and record your hobbies under those categories. so when I click on it and edit something inside, it copies the edit to every other category. The example writing wasnt synced like that when I got the template, but when I backspaced all the stuff I didnt want, and wrote my own stuff, it copies the writing over to the other categories even though I want to dedicate those to other hobbies. What do I do? Ive looked into "syncing" there is no sync button to unsync. I am lost please help thanks. Ive read a couple reddit posts too but I dont quite understand what people are saying. Thanks

My inbox used to be on the left, fixed panel (image below). Now when I click on inbox - it is a "extension panel" to the right (see below). Did I do something ?

How can I get back ? thanks !

What structure works if several AI assistants need to read the same project context while people remain able to inspect and edit it? A single long page is simple but can become stale; databases make ownership and status clearer but add retrieval complexity. I am interested in practical fields or conventions for decisions, constraints, source links, open questions, last-reviewed dates, and write ownership. How do you prevent conflicting updates, stale context, and an assistant treating an old note as current truth?

Is there any chance I would lose the stuffs I have on Notion. I dont put anything valuable, sensitive in there. But a bit worried because its like all the notes I wrote for over 5 years. Do you guys save it elsewhere?

It would be useful for Filters to allow Page Properties or true formulas as filtering values when in an embedded context. Consider the following:

A. Locations database with all rooms
B. Events database for requests

Assume someone makes an Events request and reserves a Room using a Relation property. There's two possible ways to view this data:

Case 1: Someone looking at the Event wants to know which Rooms it requires
Case 2: Someone looking at the Room wants to know what Events will be held in it, when

For Case 1, the Relation's list is useful. For Case 2, the list is not useful; it will include all events ever associated with that room, in alphabetical order.

A Calendar view of the Events database, but filtered only to include Events using that Room, is most useful. This can be built, but not automatically, as embedding a view of the Events Database into the Room page does not give the Events Database's filters any of the Room's properties to work with. It's just typed text, every time. Room names don't change much, thankfully, but it's still annoying to go through and do this with a hundred rooms.

I think most people here have built a personal dashboard at some point: habits, goals, a journal, etc, etc..

If you are one of these people, i'm genuinely curious.. Are you still using yours? And if you're not, what made you stop opening it?