Notion’s Most Overlooked Feature?

Hey — it’s James

For the past year and a half, I’ve been reading nothing but fiction. At first, it felt strange—like I wasn’t really learning anything. No “How to X” or “The Power of Y.”

Don’t get me wrong, fiction isn’t new to me. In fact, up until my early twenties, it was all I ever read. Back then, non-fiction was the one that felt strange. But between 2019 and up to the end of 2023, non-fiction—especially self-help—completely took over…

In Today’s Email 👀 

• Calendly replacement

• Notion’s MCP

• Make With Notion 2025

• Email is dead

• Most overlooked feature

• Notion Mail marketing

A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR

Learn AI in 5 minutes a day

What’s the secret to staying ahead of the curve in the world of AI? Information. Luckily, you can join 1,000,000+ early adopters reading The Rundown AI — the free newsletter that makes you smarter on AI with just a 5-minute read per day.

Sign up to start learning.

✌️ Want to get in front of 13,000+ Notion users? Book your spot here.

3 Tips / Updates

1/ Scheduling

Remember Calendly and Cal.com? Those scheduling tools are now a thing of the past.

With Notion Calendar's new Scheduling feature, you can handle all your scheduling needs right here.

Here's how:

1. Click "Scheduling" in your left sidebar

2. Select between:

   1. Create recurring link (Calendly replacement)

   2. Create one-off link (also called Share availability)

3. Customize settings in the right sidebar (URL, times, duration, expiration date, booking window, etc.)

4. Click "Create" to save

You can create multiple recurring links for different types of projects and durations—and easily access them anytime by clicking "Scheduling" again.

2/ Notion MCP

MCPs (Message Content Providers) are the latest trend in tech. If you haven't heard of MCPs before, they're essentially smarter APIs powered by large language models (LLMs).

Notion has just released and open-sourced their own MCP, allowing developers to create more sophisticated integrations with their tools.

3/ Make With Notion 2025

Notion’s annual conference, Make With Notion, is back this year on September 18, 2025 in Fort Mason, San Francisco. The will also be hosting regional events in Seoul, Tokyo, Sydney, Paris, London, Berlin, and Munich, and will also be available online.

TEMPLATES THAT JUST WORK

Organize & unclutter your life. 50%-off your next template with code 321SUB.

Templates include: Second Brain, Freelance Template, Startup OS, Workout Tracker, Student OS, Money Tracker & many more.

2 Resources

1/ History of Email

I really enjoyed this little Twitter thread on the history of email. People have been declaring "email is dead ☠️" for the past decade—yet it's more widely used than ever.

🧵

2/ Tabs—The Most Overlooked Feature?

Tabs had a major launch moment...until they (almost) disappeared from everyone's radar. William Nutt—OG Notion Expert—deconstructs how to use the tabs feature, using his wealth tracker as an example. The killer use case? Changing layouts for all database items at once—something that wasn't possible before with database templates.

1 Tweek: Tweet of the Week

FRIENDS OF NOTION

• Learn Notion on Skillshare: five awesome courses to up your game

• Beehiiv: the easiest way to start, grow and monetize a newsletter

• Notion AI / Q&A: bring some AI-magic to your Notion workspace

• Make: the #1 automation app — connect Notion to all your other tools

• Noteforms: (one of) the best form builders that syncs your answers with Notion

• Super: the #1 Notion-powered web builder

• Notionlytics: more detailed Notion analytics for knowledge management

• NotionApps: create stunning mobile Apps from Notion databases

• HelpKit: build your help center / knowledge base with Notion

*these are affiliate links, so I earn a small commission if you make a purchase through them. Your support helps keep this newsletter going :)