Dashboards, Design

16 Powerful Notion Apps and Tools

Want to create a more customizable workspace in Notion? Is there something the native app doesn’t have that you wish it did? Maybe this list can help. Here are sixteen powerful apps and tools you can implement right now! The Notion community has created charts, forms, automations, widgets, and more. Here’s just a few that I love.

How To Extract List Items With A Notion Formula

How to locate and extract items from a list in Notion. Here are some formulas and pointers on how to use Notion’s replace() function with regular expressions to return specified items in a multi-select, text or rollup property. The formulas work for lists separated by a comma, however, you can make small changes to extract lists separated by other characters. Here’s how it works.

Program Functions

Generate Random Numbers In Notion (New Function)

There’s a new function that has just been added to notion’s formula function list. The id() function! As the name suggests, it generates a random identification for a new database entry. This ID consists of random numbers and letters. Using this randomness, I created a handful of formulas to generate random numbers from 1-10, dice roll (1-6), coin flips, and more. It’s rare for Notion to release a new formula function so this is quite special!

Program Functions

4 Notion Formulas: Match Dates And Titles

For those using a Notion database for daily journaling or something similar, it may be beneficial to use dates as the title of a page. The formulas below show you how to match titles/text properties to dates like finding a current year, current date, tomorrow’s date, and more. Included are formulas that can return the equivalent solution for a date property too.