Notion’s New Button Feature is a Game-Changer

[@DallasStringQuartet]

Subscribed to your channel. Very impressed by your knowledge, organizational skills and the fact that you are a musician. New favorite channel

[@balexandra848]

Been struggling to make my Notion Second Brain look minimalist and clean while being functional. THIS IS GOING TO HELP SO MUCH THANK YOU!

[@kurtsmock3071]

This was really helpful. So lucky for Notion to have an advocate like Thomas Frank right? This beats the heck out of an feature announcement blog post or email =D

[@hannah__jemima]

he deserves sponsorship from them! 😅😅

[@analog-dreams]

BRO!!!!!!!!!!!

[@utubeuser7314]

That button feature is incredible. It makes creating templates for yourself so simple.

[@Zyphiria]

THOMAS! Thanks for showing us this. Buttons is gonna be a game changer inside of Notion!

[@SerenaShah]

Thomas you have literally CHANGED the way i use notion completely, like in every way possible

[@tommasodiste]

Seeing Notion buttons made cry of joy. Seeing The Inforium in the list of channels simply made me cry 😭. I'm going to binge its old episodes

[@anujshah1236]

Dude I love you, this is amazing I am learning a lot from you this past couple of weeks since I started Notion and I don't have enough words to tell you how grateful I am to your videos💯

[@wasifulhaq6898]

Is this update not yet available for all countries. I can find the button template, but I cannot find the features that is included in the new configuration box. It’s the same as the button that was in Notion before

[@WiserFacts]

yaa mee too

[@mark-victor]

This is an AmaaaaaaaaZing tutorial, thank you so much. Greeting from Egypt

[@christianmagill3829]

A great update. I wish we could assign templates to new pages created with buttons.

[@shaneveldhuizen]

Totally agree- that was a big bummer to realized

[@alliejcalms.autorenwelt]

Same here 😆

[@PanajottaLakkis]

Doesn't it work if one has a default template for all views in the database where the row/page is created?

[@davtoria]

Same

[@trangnpt]

If I’m not wrong is it a button within a button? That way we can create template with new pages created with buttons?

[@GadgetsGearCoffee]

hmm I'm pretty sure I could use this to assign sections that I usually use in templates but don't always need on each page so instead of having a template and removing things, I can now just click the button to add the sections when I need

[@alliejcalms.autorenwelt]

Love this new feature and your video! Thank you so so so much! I have a question: is it possible to insert a template I created for a specific database? Because when I press my new button for a new book project I get all the types I chose, but I don't have the template in it, that I created as default when I would add a new page in my database the old fashioned way. I hope I didn't confuse you too much 🙈 and thank you for your answer 🥰

[@rayganrambles]

Every day notion is making my job easier. Thanks for sharing!

[@imnotev1084]

omg, just found this and finally know that you are doing well. Was wondering what you were up to and why no video on the "Thomas Frank" channel

[@tsr4437]

Would you release a updated version of your template to incorporate this new BUTTON Feature?

[@leahperry7700]

Or at least the simple demo of habits, notes, areas/resources so I can simply add it to my Second Brain? Or is there another better way to update my downloaded template? Thank you!

[@adv.christiankrumrey3331]

Great future and brilliant lecture. Thanks for that.

[@hendrixhein]

Thank you for showing some ways to use this button feature on Notion! I can’t wait to test the feature on my Notion templates 😀

[@nevermore9067]

WOW! It's insane how many use-cases that you can use buttons for. Thank you so much for teaching about buttons :)

[@PerezQ100]

The button is the reason I use Coda for other stuff (and the charts/graphs). Notion is getting interesting, Microsoft Loop is rolling out.. things are going to be great for users.

[@HippieP629]

I've been using buttons in coda for a long time and you can automate buttons to click other buttons. A ton more functionality in coda. It's not even close. If coda had "Hours" function in timeline view I would've left notion a while ago

[@AndreasDuessca]

Loop is a surprisingly decent product already!

[@PerezQ100]

@@AndreasDuessca its really basic for now but it will be interesting to see how they will add the full power of excel and the all the office apps.

[@cosmicreciever]

Finally! I've been waiting for something like this for so long! So many hacky workarounds have just been rendered obsolete

[@tyteachestech]

jealous they gave you this feature first 😭 will be refreshing my notion waiting for it to show up

[@boyjoobobby2826]

Thank you for the video, much needed!

[@diego_dandrea]

Oh my! This is exactly what I wanted! The "game-changer" in the title was not an understatement!

[@peiseoagency]

....good gods. Just the other day I was really disheartened I wasn't able to design something in Notion with its current capabilities, that these buttons now allow. I can immediately think of several incredible ways I can use this feature that I didn't even know I needed so bad.

[@SaskisNerdtalk]

Wow!!!! Mind blown. This will fix most of the issues I had with Notion. Love this!!!!

[@WesleyAbrams]

This was helpful but i think Notion has a added a change where you now have to add the page, then edit it or it wont pull the custom name for the task and instead pulls the template name - which is very stupid.

[@PaulHartau]

Argghhh. I was worried I'd find comments like this here. Thank you. Having to edit each page means we've lost a layer of automation. I guess people were breaking things?

[@laurcgaming4460]

Awesome video, Thomas!

[@digitaldupo]

Hi Thomas, I have been binging some of your videos and I have a question. Do you think it will be possible to use buttons as a trigger for Notion API?

[@benmenashe]

The “@Today” in the Name property maintains the date of the button’s creation :( So, if you click the button “New Day”m tomorrow, the name will be set to “@Yesterday”… hope this gets fixed soon… or perhaps a default template can solve this

[@yu-ssulin1379]

Same here🥲

[@Jacques_Sauve]

Excellent instructions, as usual! Decided to apply this to my project template, instead of using the more tedious "Template Button". Ran into the first limitation rather quickly: only 10 items per button! My project template has 22 task items, so had to create 3 buttons! Still cool, but why the limit?

[@Blck40]

Yeah I have the same problem too and I also don't understand why they are making a limit here.

[@enochleffingwell6624]

Thank you for the work-a-round

[@guan-tinglin5450]

Thanks for sharing! This is so helpful! Question: how do you make your cursor into that green highlight cursor? (Thanks!)

[@ahmadfauzialwahid5707]

Wow, what a very good tutorial. Can I know what software that you use for video editing?

[@TonyStoodios]

Everything I edit for Tom is through Adobe Premiere and After Effects. We currently started using Screen Studio to help with some Broll.

[@ahmadfauzialwahid5707]

@@TonyStoodios Nice, thanks for the reply 👍

[@henrikkrupper1227]

mass editing multiple properties on selected data-sets is finally possible: add a check-box property, select the ones to be updated and press the button configured to change the desired properties!

[@NakulKrishna]

This is such a time saver, and the best part is it works with relations by referencing the page you’re in.

[@_tosber]

Thanks for the great Video! Is there a way to inlcude data into the pages added via buttons?

[@richardwalker_]

Really handy new feature; and nicely implemented in the same way that Streamdeck handles its multi-step button processes. Comprehensively but logically explained too, thanks.

[@deeperblue77]

Awesome feature. Thanks, Thomas for sharing and creating great tut videos.

[@RealEltonChang]

I’m a new notion user, are the buttons feature updated in your ultimate brain template. About to buy until I landed on this video? Buttons is a true game changer!

[@KevinLe]

Pretty awesome update! Do you know if the button can trigger external webhook api calls?

[@KathyBecklin]

This is so exciting! 🎉

[@anthonydraper1231231]

Great video, thank you! I don’t have the feature yet, frustratingly, but I’ll save so much time once I’ve implemented it.

[@shelbytessier6508]

Thank you so much for this! I'm still confused as to why there's no way to just create a template with tasks already in the tasks database (vs having to click the button to populate them) for projects where the tasks are repeated every time!

[@lierstl]

Brilliant feature! Two questions: 1) how can I connect the 'Completion' option with the default tasks made with the button? 2) I cannot find the option of relating 'this page' in the task, 2.5) As I would like to be able to *label* each task to their project/episode, as when I have multiple projects, there are all the same tasks with the same name in the task database which is hard to differentiate with each other. I suppose it has to do with the problem I have with 2) ? Thank you in advance for helping!

[@mastery8s]

Man, they could make this more amazing by prompting for values/input...

[@Legendarybeatzonline]

Is it just me, but I only see the template button option. I don't see the new button option when I check.

[@budgetexcursions7613]

Same

[@wolficeir]

It's on the web verision, not sure why it isn't on the desktop version yet :(

[@Neitrin0DAV]

Это оргазм для всех любителей Getting Things Done 🤤 Благодарю за детальный разбор Том ❤

[@DannyHatcherTech]

This is really cool. I moved away from Notion because Obsidian had all this a year back. Might need to play around to see what else Notion has been up to.

[@kale5221]

This is great! Can this also work with subtasks when using a button to add default tasks to a project?

[@hanaofangel]

so happy ! finally 🥳

[@GlobalEltorro]

Love this new feature! Thomas, what keyboard are you using?

[@businesswithflow]

This is seriously amazing! Oh the possibilities.

[@GeronimoChannel]

Anyone tried implementing the habit tracker? What does naming the created record @Today do? In my case it’s just naming it the same day (not actually today) each time.

[@archiebrown1405]

I'm having the same problem, any fixes?

[@zhitchcox]

I literally just learned to do the Default Task work around 2 days ago, then I find this video.... I should have watched this first LOL Love it though, honestly great video!

[@bedhead-studio]

THIS IS AMAZING

[@paris.granville]

As always - you clearly explained the possiblities and the execution

[@maloumartinez9581]

Some limitations, if I'm not wrong. There is a maximum of actions in that button (10 actually). Problematic when you want to create new tasks in your database. Then, I also noticed that if you want to edit/add something in the button configuration, it's not working anymore.

[@jennielakenan6062]

Oh that's good to know. So a button wouldn't necessarily be a great help if I wanted to assign several dozen project tasks with one click. Guess I'll stick with the old drag and drop method for now.

[@elzekloen]

Yeah I hit that limit of 10 pretty quickly when setting up a button to add tasks. For some reason I also didn't seem to be able to duplicate an action easily, I had to add all of them completely manually. I hope they'll iron that out quickly and add the option to have more actions.

[@millionairemoxie]

@@jennielakenan6062 Or multiple buttons

[@millionairemoxie]

What do you mean you can't edit in the button configuration?

[@maloumartinez9581]

@@millionairemoxie hello ! I didn’t say you cannot edit. I’m just saying that after editing the button does not work anymore when you achieved the 10 actions limit.

[@soyrubn]

This video is awesome, thank you fof giving this information to someone starting on Notion. It helps a lot! Do you have a video or some kind of tutorial on how to build the database for the habits page? It looks really cool and I would like to do one Thank you!

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Working on that one!

[@bmacias8288]

Hi ! Great Video. I was wondering can you add a button to create the default tasks within the project template? Or do you have to copy the button from one project page to the next as you create them? Thank you

[@NakulKrishna]

You can have them in the templates.

[@Dontao]

Te amo por explicar esto, justo necesitaba esto! eres el mejor !

[@nishanth.f6262]

Does Thomas still do stuff for the main channel/a podcast like inforium/or stuff unrelated to Notion or this channel? (genuine question- haven’t followed much since the last inforium episode)

[@JeffreyAmanTampa]

Hi, Thomas. At 1:44 you reference the @Today insert for the button. I have tried this and it does type in "@Today" in the field, but it is text only, and does not convert to the date moving forward. Any advice on this point? Thanks!

[@satoukudoo5013]

I have the same problem, since "Name" is set to "@Today", when new day comes and I clicked the button. It says the name is "Yesterday" not "Today" as it should.

[@Rawi888]

I’m just getting into self organising and you just make me feel comfortable with being overwhelmed and I gotta say you’re part of the damn problem man 😂❤. This nonsense takes so much time and brain space to habituate, and you gotta learn the old phased out stuff to understand the new stuff, what ?

[@hannah__jemima]

"Date" can be a formula, something like this: empty(prop("Set Date")) == false ? prop("Set Date") : prop("Suggested Date") have not explicitly tried this but think it will work.

[@RealDeadMatt]

Got an instant like for "Butt....with an ON at the end" xD also because the video is great :D

[@chamainefelix5823]

Hi Thomas, will you incorporate these buttons into second brain? If you are, will those of us who bought the template months ago be able to access it?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

We will, and we’ll also release an upgrade guide to show you how to add them! Though we’ll need to go through and assess any other needed design changes. I can already think of a couple big ones (changing Kanban and Priority to Status-type properties) But in the mean time, I’d encourage you to add your own buttons! UB is intended to be a great starting point, but since we build on Notion, it’s best when you tweak it to your needs :)

[@scentedtemptation]

@@ThomasFrankExplains Hello, Thomas :) I have the Creator's Companion (Ultimate Brain Edition) added to the cart and I'm happy I waited to purchase it. Do you have any idea when it will be updated with the buttons? Thank you ☺☺

[@braydoncoyer174]

This is game changing!

[@himshurai]

Hi Thomas, is your ultimate brain template updated with this new Button feature?

[@gamerfisch5117]

in which way are these buttons better or an addition compared to the template buttons?

[@karenlepage-mindfulmaker]

Does it work with sub-tasks, too?

[@mrmikemayo]

Can it be programmed to open hyperlinks?

[@Ljg222]

will there be an update to ULTIMATE BRAIN?

[@libykim6259]

For the tasks button, it looks like the tasks get listed in the reverse order from how it is listed in the button setup page. This is not very intuitive for me, especially when tasks are added to the bottom of the list when you create them individually. I feel like I'm the picky one here, because I am searching online and haven't found a single complaint about this.

[@Doctor_CoRo]

Grat video! I’m wondering if this is compatible con notion api to do some great notion integrations with Siri and Shortcuts IOS app

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

This isn’t directly. However, a button can modify a database property, and you can use the API to poll your workspace looking for specific changes to db values 😁

[@TheTintinjb]

Any plans on updating the ultimate brain for notion template?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Yep! We’re working on a bunch of updates right now. Once they’re ready we’ll also release an upgrade guide for people who already have it.

[@hannah__jemima]

also we need an option to add a page to a database of a particular template. otherwise you are manually setting these properties in the button to copy something you may already have in a template for that database. also would love an option to insert blocks in a chosen page, not just the page the button exists in. or at least create a page with pre-set blocks. originally i was looking for a way to automate setting multiple relations on the newly created page to, say, all pages in a chosen database which match a chosen filter. but had to settle for creating a block with a linked database view showing the desired page selection right below the button, having the button open the newly created page in side peek, and manually moving the database view into the side peek so i can see my list of suggested related pages as i'm working on the document. then manually adding each to the relations property if they are indeed relevant to the content i am writing on that page. but would have been easier if the relations property was auto-populated so i'd have that as an inclusive list of the notes pages i'm drawing ideas from (with far less effort), and manually removing any which don't end up being used. hopefully these are already in development. sure someone over at Notion has thought of them. maybe there are workarounds i haven't figured out yet, since i am new to Notion. i have not explored integrations yet, debating whether it is worth the effort to learn purely for these purposes if we may get these features native in Notion sometime soon 🤞

[@maertscisum]

@Thomas, Is there a trick to show the button on the gallery view? I would like to have a gallery of buttons on my dashboard page which will control all my workflow.

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Not right now - buttons are blocks, not database properties. I’m hoping they’ll add them as properties soon though!

[@Gotchatwice]

You Need to build a second brain using buttons! I would buy that template!

[@anshulgupta943]

Stocks you discussed are Consumer products company - FMCG and CONSUMER DURABLE PRODUCTS

[@franpalokaj]

Awesome! Excited to see what we can build with this =)

[@omeirooo5195]

I was building a notion dashboard for a company I co-founded. Boii oh boii that I wished this was a feature a week ago. Now here we are ahahhah

[@jorgedelio]

Now I cant't see template button... This new function is the replacement of template button?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Yes indeed! It can do everything the template button used to do along with a lot of new things.

[@DanKnowlson]

Yes! About time!

[@milasannon5361]

Great video as always Thomas! Is there a way to implement recurring reminders with those buttons? Do you have a workaround to make this possible? Please anyone let me know! Thank you!

[@LuisVargasFdz]

Is this update included in the second brain template?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

It will be eventually, but it just went live today so we haven’t had time to implement it yet. However, with this guide you can easily add buttons yourself :)

[@jcepri]

Except that a strange message pops up on phone screens that says something about the process executed successfully. I don't understand why that's necessary for everyone to see. Just tell me if it's not working.

[@buzua]

Hello, i have a question to the scenario. creation tasks related to a project button. when pushin the button and creating those new task. is that correct, that they are related to the project, but they are not getting filtered by project in the task database?

[@cadunoyoutube]

Hey, thanks for sharing this video! I've have been using buttons for a while now and it's helping to save a lot of time. I have a question though, is there a way to create an URL where I can save it to my bookmarks bar in order to activate this button directly from any other website? If i'm creating a quick note on something, I'd rather click on a bookmark that opens my template rather than opening the notion page where that button is located and only then perform the command..

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Unfortunately no - these buttons don't yet connect to the Notion API, so they can only be used directly in Notion. That said, if you're looking to create quick notes from your browser, you might be interested in the app my team and I are building: flylighter.com/

[@NirOfry]

Any way to create a formula in Buttons? E.g. have a button "Drink a glass of water" that would increase the current value.

[@Caedo1992]

I rebuild the habit tracker. But when i click the button "new day" it always refers to "today" as the day the button was created - not the day i press the button. Any Ideas how to fix it?

[@CharlesDunkley]

I finally plunged into Notion to set up a video production process and created my main video production table. And then built out a video production template to add to the page for each video production record in the table. I like it. Just visually spelling out all of the steps in the process was helpful. But, my old Access database muscle memory is waking up, and the video template doesn't actually capture any single part of my production checklist into a table. In an Access database I would have built the following tables: 1. Video Production 2. Video Production Details And the Details table would link to the main table and capture every one of the checklist steps. Knowing which of the 11 video editing steps I'm at for any given video feels like data I should be capturing. I think one of the steps I did walking through one of your tutorials has a way to link records in one table back to another. It looks like the daily tasks you're featuring here does something similar, allowing you to associate any given task in a master task table to a Project or Area database. Which means I should be able to set up my Details table and link it somehow. Though I would need to link a record in the details table to a specific record in the main table. That way there can be 20 tasks in the details table linked to a specific video in my main table. Which would let me do what I used to do so many years ago in Access. Now, I'm off to figure out how to do that. Another run through your Ultimate Brain video it is!

[@pressfinchat]

I have been watching so many Thomas Frank Explains videos over the past few months that I hadn’t even noticed you were inactive on your main channel. Could you tell us more about what is happening? 😢

[@James-hd1zi]

Is there a way to add icons to the "add to database" button? I put icons on most of my tasks that relates to it and was hoping it would be able to replicate/repeat it.

[@CharlieUniman]

Great video! Thanks. Can you use the new button feature to mimic built in recurring task functionality by, for example, using the button to advance a recurring task’s scheduled due date to the next due date once the task is marked completed?

[@jennielakenan6062]

I'm curious about this as well.

[@HoneyballLP]

I can only duplicate stuff with the button with the app :C

[@heckatron2586]

Using @Today doesn’t seem to work right. I set the habit db/button up yesterday just like Thomas had it , but when I clicked it today, the name was @yesterday…

[@JeffreyAmanTampa]

Right, having the button insert @Today is not the same as me typing it in. @Thomas Frank Explains any solution to this?

[@carvalho9021]

I can safely say Notion saved my life.. I been kind desorganized with dates during my teenage years and now I finally feel safe.

[@Paul-Jean]

Great video, very useful ! 👍 Anyway is there any possibility in a formula to change a cell like Excel or google Sheet ? 🤔 I want to create an "observer" formula that can automatically assign/change the status of a parent task from the analyzed data of the total sub-task to done for example.

[@jossvalomx]

is this feature already released? I only get template button as an option :(

[@WiserFacts]

me too its showing me templet rather then button

[@beneaththeoceanwaves]

SAME! I wonder if it's about location.

[@lucagiampieri2342]

Same for me

[@HarshithKumar-ls4qu]

Good Applications bro!! But I am facing a problem while setting suggested due date property. Here Iam using it for my Projects and Tasks. I have used roll-up to display project deadline in Tasks Database, but when Iam applying formula for suggested due date, iam getting error as, prop ("Project Deadline") is not a date property.... Please help me regarding this.