What’s New

Oftentimes, information needs to be included in multiple places throughout your workspace. But when that content needs an update, it's a pain to make those corrections over and over, one page at a time.

Now you can use Synced Blocks to ensure your content is always accurate and up-to-date! When you make any changes to the content or formatting of a Synced Block, all the other copies will update automatically.

Follow these steps to create Synced Blocks:

1. Copy some content

2. Paste on another page, and select Paste & sync in the dropdown that appears

3. Your content is synced! Any changes you make will update every Synced Block.

The possibilities with Synced Blocks are endless. Here's a few ways you can use them in your Notion workspace:

• Paste & sync OKRs across your team's homepage, weekly meeting notes, and 1:1 notes. When you make changes to the metrics & KPIs in one place, all the other Synced Blocks will update automatically.

• Include a footer with your contact info & social media profiles on every page of your personal website, blog, or portfolio. If you choose to change the formatting or add more info down the road, Synced Blocks ensure you won't have to make those changes one page at a time.

• Keep your company's mission statement, values, or North Star top of mind by including it at the top of every new project proposal, decision doc, and job posting. If there are any tweaks, you'll only need to make them once.

Learn more about Synced Blocks →

Read about the design process behind Synced Blocks →

Since the introduction of the API public beta last month, thousands of developers have built integrations, making millions of API requests per day. It's incredibly exciting to see what y'all are building 🏗️

Thanks to these new platform partners, there are even more ways to automate your workflows with the API:

• IFTTT: A top request from the Notion community! Notion is now part of the IFTTT ecosystem of 700+ apps and devices. Create a new Notion page with Alexa or Siri, sync to-do lists across apps, and add items to your meeting notes by updating a Google Sheet.

• atSpoke: Make it easy for anyone on your team to call up the answer to any question they have from your Notion knowledge base right in Slack, as seen below

• tray.io: Automate business processes by connecting Notion to Salesforce, Zendesk, Intercom & 600+ other tools

• Integromat: Choose from hundreds of apps to connect to Notion, including Pocket, Telegram & GitHub, all through an easy drag-and-drop interface

Now there are even more tools that you can embed directly in your Notion docs, meeting notes & tasks — especially useful to share with folks on other teams who may not have access to those services. Just use these slash commands:

• **/sketch**: Embed Sketch documents, artboards and prototypes in Notion to share your work with your team, as seen below

• **/excalidraw**: Easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them, then embed in any Notion page

• **/framer**: New and improved 💫 Embed beautiful prototypes that are resizeable and fully interactive, right inside Notion

• Date mentions such as @today now have tooltips when you hover over them with your cursor

• “Turn into page in” and other new page menus are now shorter, cleaner, and easier to understand

• Checked checkboxes now have higher contrast and lighter strikethroughs for better readability

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Codepen, Typeform, Google Map & Abstract embeds from loading in the desktop apps

• Fixed a bug that caused a second app window to open when clicking the icon of a minimized window in the Mac App

• Fixed a bug that allowed guests with "Can view" access to duplicate the page

• Fixed a bug that prevented comments from being dismiss-able in the iOS app

• Fixed a bug that prevented background colors from applying to selections of a block on mobile

• Fixed a bug that caused a personal workspace to be created when attempting to create a team workspace during workspace creation

• Fixed a bug that prevented the and ⋮⋮ icons from appearing on edit-able public pages

Every business and person should be able to tailor software to their own needs. This public beta is the first step towards a whole new set of building blocks to make that vision a reality. Here's what you need to know:

• Use the API to connect other software and services to Notion databases, pages, blocks & more

• This public beta is just the beginning — we'll continue adding new features and making changes based on your feedback

• Learn how to add and manage integrations in this guide from our Help Center, and check us out on Product Hunt!

Get started at developers.notion.com →

Create automated workflows that will make Notion your team’s information hub. Zapier already supports 3,000+ apps like Slack, Jira, Salesforce, and more.

Here are just a few examples of Zapier workflows you can build right away, without writing a single line of code:

• Add new Google Calendar events as rows to a Notion database

• Centralize new Salesforce leads, Facebook advertising metrics, or Google Analytics in Notion with no need for manual copy/paste

• Send emails to team members when new tasks are added to a Notion database

Add the Zapier integration to your workspace →

Share beautifully designed forms to collect data at scale, with responses that populate a Notion database! Match your database's properties to questions from your Typeform, then watch the answers update in real-time.

Add the Typeform integration to your workspace →

Automate.io is the world’s easiest workflow automation and integration platform. With their native integration, you can build powerful workflows between Notion and the cloud applications you rely on. 200+ apps are supported, including PayPal, Shopify, Office 365 and more.

Add the automate.io integration to your workspace →

• Toggles are much faster and now open instantly, thanks to preloaded content — no more loading spinners inside toggles!

• You can now set the language of a code block without leaving your keyboard, by using Ctrl / cmd + / and navigating to the new Set language menu

• Un-indenting nested bullets and numbered lists with Shift + Tab or the |← button on mobile now feels more natural, by un-nesting the current block from the parent block, and re-nesting the blocks below it into the new hierarchy

• Duplicating a column in a Table view now retains the width of the duplicated column — no more resizing columns after duplication!

• **Shift** + **return** / **enter** to create a newline in the math equation composer is now supported in the desktop apps, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and iPads with an external keyboard

• Renaming a property on mobile now auto-selects the input contents, so you don't have to backspace through the old property name

• Fixed a bug that prevented some mobile users from entering text descriptions when using the "Report page" option

• Fixed a bug that incorrectly labeled the caption of a link to a database as "Untitled Database" when exporting a page

• Fixed a bug that prevented keyboard shortcuts from working properly in peek view for some users

Stash the things you discover online with the Notion Web Clipper extension, now available in Safari. It automatically copies all the text & media from most webpages into any Notion page or database of your choosing!

• Clip pages from Wikipedia to centralize your research efforts

• Save news articles and blog posts of interest for later reading

• Create a "resonance calendar" of the online discoveries that inspire you

Download the extension →

We updated to the latest version of $\KaTeX$, making Notion even more powerful for students, researchers and mathematicians collaborating remotely. Many new environments, syntaxes and macros are supported, including:

• Matrices

• Commutative diagrams

• Bra-ket notation & much more

Learn how to add math equations to your Notion pages →

Now anyone viewing a public Notion page on the web has the ability to report offensive, inappropriate, or prohibited content. These reports go to our customer experience team so we can investigate based on our Content & Use Policy.

• Updated the $\KaTeX$ version from 0.11.0 to 0.13.2

• Fixed a bug that caused the "presence" avatars to appear inconsistently in the desktop apps

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Include subpages toggle from responding on iOS devices while exporting

• Fixed a bug that prevented notion.so links from opening correctly on Android devices

Accessing your content and navigating around your workspace just got a lot snappier. Page load and navigation speeds are now 50% faster, thanks to a long list of under-the-hood upgrades.

See what our performance engineers have been up to and what's coming next on the Notion Blog:

Notion's page load and navigation times just got faster

Pro tip: Use the desktop app for an extra speed boost →

Now there's even more options for managing your Notion subscription — we've added Apple Pay and Google Pay capabilities alongside the credit card, debit card, and ACH wire transfer options.

• Apple Pay will appear as a payment option in Safari for supported devices with Touch ID, if your card has been added and is active

• Google Pay will appear as a payment option in Chrome, if your card has been added and is active

Learn more about upgrading →

• Your workspace is now more reliable after April 16, 2021's scheduled maintenance — we upgraded from a single database instance to a sharded deployment, which means Notion is now capable of serving 3x as much traffic as before

• Typing lag has decreased by 20%, resulting in a smoother typing experience (especially on large pages)

• Improved the reliability of page presence avatars

• Improved the speed of displaying page history versions with a lot of content

• Improved the upgrade experience by only displaying subscriptions users are eligible for

• Fixed a bug that prevented some users from duplicating public templates on mobile

• Fixed a bug that prevented some users from seeing deleted pages in trash

• Fixed a bug that prevented some users from receiving notifications from reminders

• Fixed a bug that prevented some enterprise users from importing large HTML files

• Fixed a bug that prevented users from upgrading to a Personal Pro Plan through the iOS app

Customize your Android home screen with instant shortcuts to the Notion dashboards, notes, and workflows you need. There's three customizable widgets to choose from, as well as handy shortcuts when you tap and hold the app icon:

• Add one page as a widget for easy access, complete with icon and cover image

• Pin a few of your FAVORITES or RECENTS to your home screen, then scroll or resize the widget to see more

• Tap and hold the Notion app icon to instantly create a new page when you're on the go, or create a small shortcut to a specific page

To add a Notion widget to your Android device, just long press on any blank space on your home screen, and tap Widgets. Then, scroll to find Notion in the list, pick a style, then tap and hold to drop onto your home screen!

Download the Android app →

• You can now upgrade from a free Personal Plan → Personal Pro Plan from the iOS app

• Clicking on commented text within a block will now open the comment menu and keep the cursor on the text instead of focusing the comment input

• Fixed a bug that caused the Mac App to display a white screen after an OS update completed

• Fixed a bug that caused the Windows App file to disappear after an OS update completed

• Fixed a bug that prevented the multi-account login feature from working in the Android app

Notion's left-hand sidebar is the front door to your digital office, storing all your team's wiki pages, notes & tasks. Now it's much easier to keep your sidebar organized! You'll have easy access to the pages you need, without the added clutter of old one-off docs.

As a quick reminder:

• Pages in the **WORKSPACE** section are visible to your whole team

• Pages in the **SHARED** section are only visible to specific people on your team

• Pages in the PRIVATE section are only visible to you

In the new-and-improved SHARED section, you decide which pages stay in your sidebar. Everything else can be searched and sorted, pinned and unpinned in the new View all popover menu 👇

Learn more →

When exporting any Notion page as a PDF, there's a new option that helps you increase or decrease the text size as needed. To do this:

• Click the ••• button at the top right of a page, and select Export

• Select PDF as your Export format, and select a Page format

• Enter a number between 11% - 199% depending on how small or large you want the text to be

• Optimized app.js to reduce visible page refreshes during app use

• 30% improvement in page load time for most Notion users (compared to beginning of 2021)

• The SCIM API & SAML SSO now support OneLogin

• Improved slash command support for Japanese keyboards

• Improved keyboard accessible buttons & focus rings

• Fixed a bug that caused a **Please log in** error message while logging in — if you're still experiencing this bug, please close your app, wait at least one minute, and re-open the app

• Fixed a bug that caused some users to experience frequent logouts

• Fixed a bug that prevented scrollbars from displaying in dark mode on external monitors

• Fixed a bug that caused Settings & Members to display settings of the previous workspace when switching between workspaces

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Rollup menu from responding on the first click

• Fixed a bug that caused the date/time format and timezone menus in the date picker to be unresponsive

• Fixed a bug on Android that caused the email & password fields to be hidden under the keyboard until you started typing

• Fixed a bug that prevented the mobile share sheet from populating URL values in databases

• Fixed a bug that caused the mobile share sheet to forget the most recently used save destination

• Fixed a bug that prevented the database load limit menu from appearing if the database was inside a toggle block

• Fixed a bug that prevented header blocks from inheriting text color from a parent

You'll find reflections on the computing pioneers who brought us here, actionable tactics and templates you can put into practice with your team, and ideas about the future of work.

Stay tuned for much more content, from technical to inspirational. In the meantime, here's two posts to get you started:

Before, there was no way to have Notion mirror your system dark mode setting on desktop. And on mobile, Notion could ONLY mirror your system setting — there was no way to turn it on and off manually.

Now, there's fine-grained controls for your dark mode preference across desktop and mobile!

• Always light 🌕

• Always dark 🌑

• Use system setting 🌗

Learn more →

• When troubleshooting with Notion's support team, you can now grant and revoke consent to access your account in Settings & members → My account. Learn more →

• Date suggestions triggered by @remind will now default to display dates in the future

• Added a Copy link button to the menu that appears when selecting text with an inline hyperlink

• Disabled spellcheck for words with inline code formatting enabled

• Fixed a bug that prevented underlined text, and pages whose name began with an underscore, from importing properly from Confluence

• Fixed a bug that caused the cursor to lose focus when typing in a comment

• Fixed a bug that caused removed members to be re-added in some workspaces

• Fixed a bug that prevented filtering by rollup values when the Show unique values option was selected

Things are happening! Today, we started testing a private beta of the API with a small number of users, and a limited scope of features. This will help us discover and fix bugs, test the performance and reliability of the API, and help us decide which features to launch with the public beta next year.

To stay in the loop for all things API:

• Sign up here to let us know what you're planning to build! We'll keep you updated over email with any API news, surveys, AMAs with the team, and other inside scoops. And you'll be first in line for public beta access next year 😌

• Follow our new Twitter account, @NotionAPI

• Read more info & FAQs at notion.so/api-beta

Migrate your team's knowledge to Notion with our new importer — with all the formatting perfectly preserved. Switch to the tool that makes your team enjoy creating and using docs daily.

When you switch, you'll get way more powerful workflows than what you could create in Confluence:

• Keep documentation and project management side by side, instead of spread between Jira, Trello, and Confluence

• Flexible workspace where you can mix & match many types of content — no need to stick to a rigid format

• Easy drag & drop editor that anyone can use, so all teams can work in the same space

Test our Team Plan for free for as long as you want. There's no time limit. And everything from your Confluence workspace will be right there, even if you have thousands of docs. Just click **Import** in your left-hand sidebar, then follow these instructions.

Learn more about switching from Confluence →

Have a Mac with Apple's new M1 processor? Head to notion.com/desktop to download a new version of our desktop app, optimized for Apple Silicon. It's pretty fast!

Download the desktop app →

• Added caption support for code blocks on mobile

• Fixed a bug that prevented image actions on Android tablets, such as viewing full-screen or adding a caption

Quickly get to the page you need, right from your home screen! There's three widgets to choose from:

• Add one page as a widget for easy access, complete with icon and cover image

• Pin a few pages from the FAVORITES section of your sidebar

• See the pages you visited most recently

To add a Notion widget to your iPhone home screen, just long press on any app icon, and select Edit home screen. Then, tap the + at the top left, and select Notion from the list. Pick a style and customize however you want!

Download the iOS app →

• Fixed a bug that prevented link previews from being dismissable on mobile

• Fixed a bug that caused presence avatars to overlap the ⋮⋮ block handle

These folks are more than just Notion experts — they're certified for their tactical skills and informed strategies, which often pair Notion with other powerful tools. Whatever problem you bring as a team, company, individual, they can solve it. Find your match →

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