Notion is flexible, but it can’t do everything—at least, not alone. With the right integrations, you can automate workflows, sync data across platforms, and supercharge your productivity without ever leaving Notion.
Notion’s Slack integration is one of the best ways to keep you and your team updated on important changes to your databases. It only takes a few clicks to create a Slack automation in Notion in a database. Afterward, whenever someone performs an action, such as editing a property or adding a page, Notion will send a notification to the appropriate Slack channel.
Besides that, this integration also allows you to create Notion tasks directly in Slack. You can easily turn any message sent in a Slack channel into a Notion task with a few clicks.
If youuse Notion for task management, the Gmail integration allows you to create an automation similar to Slack. you’re able to set it up so that whenever someone makes a change to a Notion database it sends an email to several people letting them know of the change.
Creating a Gmail automation needs a Notion Plus subscription. The only third-party app you can automate in the free version is Slack.
What I like about the Gmail integration is that you may use variables to customize the message with a few clicks, explaining exactly what happened. For instance, if someone added a page to the database, the message can specify the page’s name, who added it, and the database they added it to.
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7Notion Calendar
The Notion Calendar integration allows you to sync your databases with the calendar so you’re able to see all the due dates and events at a glance. You can also use Notion Calendar to add new entries to your database and edit existing ones.
Furthermore, if you use Google Calendar, you can connect it to Notion Calendar. From there, you can also create and manage Google Calendar events.
Once you have linked Notion Calendar and your databases and Google Calendars, you may see all upcoming events in theHomesection in Notion.
Notion’s Asana integration syncs your Asana projects and tasks in Notion. They’ll be inserted as a database that updates regularly, reflecting the changes made in Asana on your Notion pages.
While you’re able to’t manage or create automations for them, it’s a good way to stay updated and fit them into your Notion workflow (e.g., creating views and using relations to connect them with other databases).
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5Google Drive
The Google Drive integration in Notion allows you to embed and preview images and documents saved in your Google Drive. This means you can view your Google Drive files without leaving Notion. For example, if you embed a Google Docs document, you will be able to read it from within Notion without having to open a browser window—you won’t be able to edit it, though.
With the Figma integration, you may view your design files, prototypes, and mockups in Notion. The integration is particularly useful if you are part of a design team and want team members to be able to preview Figma files.
3Lucidchart
With the Lucidchart integration for Notion, you’re able to preview your diagrams, flowcharts, and other visual documents in Notion. You just paste the link in Notion, and it will create a highly interactive preview for people without direct access to Lucidchart. It’s very user-friendly, allowing you to easily scroll around, switch pages, and zoom in and out.
I have worked in several teams where they kept their team guides in Notion. Many of them would have a monthly standup meeting that took place at the beginning of the month, and I was pleasantly surprised to see a Zoom link that allowed me to join the meeting.
The Zoom preview it generates also has the room ID and passcode, which saves me the hassle of looking for it in a calendar invite or an email that got buried a long time ago.
Zapier is a popular tool for workflow automation. It allows you to connect Notion with a wide range of apps, tools, and services that aren’t available inNotion’s list of integrations.
A good example is using Zapier to connect Microsoft To Do with Notion. you’re able to set up an automated workflow in Zapier (called a Zap) that creates a new database item in Notion whenever you create a task in Microsoft To Do. The best part is that you can use Copilot, Zapier’s AI assistant, to help you create the Zap.
If you look at the full list of Notion integrations, you will see it can connect with dozens of apps and services, from communication to task management to design and collaboration. And with Zapier, that list expands even more.
