Hide Content Inside a Notion Block

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In Today’s Email 👀 

• Hidden groups truly hidden

• Notion Calendar status property

• Claude Sonnet & Opus 4 in Notion

• How to hide content inside a block

• Set up and use AI meeting notes < 2min

• What can’t AI do?

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3 Tips / Updates

1/ Hide groups for real

Hidden groups are now truly hidden! This feature has bothered me since I first started using Notion, so I'm thrilled they finally changed it.

When you enable the "Hide empty groups" option and there are no items to display, your database will look like this:

The "All groups are hidden" text is clickable and takes you straight to the database's grouping settings. You can also still add new items using the blue New button.

2/ Notion Calendar Status property

If you have integrated a Notion database into your Notion Calendar and your database has a Status property, you can now view and edit status options directly inside Notion Calendar!

They're gradually rolling out all Notion properties inside NC, which is super exciting.

Which property do you think is next? 👀

3/ Sonnet & Opus 4 in Notion

A quick reminder that Claude Sonnet 4 & Claude Opus 4 are available as LLM models inside Notion AI. You can select them from the dropdown menu next to the Ask section on your Home page.

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2 Resources

1/ Hide stuff inside Notion blocks!

A 2-minute video showing you how to hide content inside Notion blocks by leveraging a simple fact: everything in Notion is a block, and each block is a page that can contain child items.

I have no idea how he discovered this 😂

2/ How to setup AI meeting notes

If you haven't tried AI meeting notes yet, here's a quick X/Twitter thread that explains how to set them up and use them (tested and approved) ↓

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