The Notion Mastery Blog

Architecting [Notion] Workspaces
Notion’s core challenge is not only does the audience vary, but the software itself presents itself differently to each user, depending on how you build. How our new course helps!

Creating auto-archiving Notion systems
How to build auto-archiving automations with Notion database automations to promote proactive always-on workspace cleanup.

The importance of Notion’s design history
Why this little feature no one’s going to talk about is my favorite thing Notion shipped so far this year.

The Other Notion Mention Menus
Going beyond the @-mention menu in Notion will save you time.

How to Approach Learning Notion with Minimal Overwhelm
A different, slower approach to learning Notion and minimizing the overwhelm of optimizing for “productivity.”

Moving Notion pages with the API
v5.6.0 of the Notion SDK introduced the ability to move pages to other pages and databases. How does it work? Read this guide to find out.

Creating Notion pages from a template with the API
Notion quietly shipped an API upgrade that’s a candidate for feature of the year for me. Creating pages from templates with the API!

The universal principles behind every productivity system
Each new framework promises to be the solution to helping you become the most effective version of yourself. Each creator presents their method as revolutionary, but the truth is that they’re all mostly teaching the same fundamental behaviors, just wrapped in different terminology.

Notion Formulas in Automations can now be copy and pasted!
Notion Formulas in Automations are now copy and pasteable. Introducing the “context” and “var” functions.

Celebrating Notion’s new Feed view layout
Notion recently introduced a new database layout type: Feed View. Here are three fun ways I’m using it to share personal updates.

All-in-wonder syndrome: when Notion isn’t the right tool
You can build almost anything in Notion. But should you build everything in Notion? What is it best suited for? Best tool for the job! But what else?

Uploading Files via Notion’s API
The new FileUpload API in Notion’s public API allows you to upload both small and large files via a well-structured workflow. But how does it work and what does the code look like. Check out this guide for an overview and example code.
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