What are your Favorite Notion Blocks?

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In Today’s Email 👀 

• Create Tabs in your Database

• Button: Insert Block Options

• What are your favorite blocks?

• Bundles: Buy 1, Get 3

• Notion Timers

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3 Tips / Updates

1/ Create Tabs in your Database

Okay, this one is pretty nice. Remember Page Layout? Well, you can now add tabs—aka new "views"—to each of your database items. This is a new way to visualize your data, making it cleaner and less cluttered. It also simplifies self-referential filtering (ooooh that nasty word) as it lets you visualize linked databases related to your items.

How?

1. Click Customize Layout

2. Access Page Settings at the top-left

3. In the right panel, switch from "Simple" to "Tabbed"

4. In the main view (see screenshot below), click the "+" button to add new tabs and customize them as needed

PS: Be aware that on new tabs/views, you won't have your page content (only on the first one)

2/ Button: Insert Block Options

The classic button got an upgrade! You now have more options to decide where new blocks should be added:

• below button

• above button (new)

• at top of page (new)

• at bottom of page (new)

3/ What are your favorite blocks?

You can't have missed it—Notion completely redesigned their command menu (what appears when you type "/"). Your favorite blocks now appear in the top 4 positions, and it also displays the keyboard shortcuts you can use instead.

So, what are your favorite blocks?

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