Thanks for this! I stopped using Notion regularly for a few months and they added this in so I had no idea what to do with it! I'm used to designing my own Home pages, so wasn't sure what the advantages of Notion's version was.
The task section could be done before using a single Task database and adding filtered views inside each project/page. It is the way I manage my projects in Notion. I am glad they added this because it's easier to make changes. Thanks for the great review
For me, at least on my iPad Notion app, it does offer the Home page but a bit parred down at least for now. It's got the Recents and My Tasks. The way I found it was scrolling down towards the bottom of the iPad app and there it was.
Kinda nifty, I hope they ad a pegboard/shortcuts area as that’s about the only thing different with my own dashboard. And text size adjustment on mobile apps, one of these days, ugh.
you had me at tasks across multiple databases! It's the only feature Confluence had over Notion 😄 wish it'd work with to-do lists as well where your name is tagged
at 8:20 your options looks different than mine: I have the "source option" there and I can ONLY PICK ONE. Why is that? It makes this entire feature useless if I can not combine databases >:(
Really awesome, the widgets suggested for you and trending aren't available for me. Would you take a look at the Sprint feature which could be integrated for task / project planning and recurring tasks? You find it in your task database properties as an info widget.
I don't have the suggested and trending section on my home. As well as been able to have notes etc. I'm wondering if it's because I'm only on the free personal account of notion
I pay for Notion and I don't have the trending and suggested sections either. So, I'm not sure why that might be for us except for maybe it hasn't rolled out to us yet...?
Been waiting for this! Love the consolidated task view. But I need my 24 hr time format in the Calendar widget (as it's my setting everywhere else, including in Notion Calendar).
Home just pulls from your original database, so as long as you use the three properties to create it as a task database, then when you need more details from that database, you can select it by keeping the database name showing. It will take you to the database with the extra customizations.
I did buy your full template, and I tried to love Notion but when creating a To-Do Task or Event and hitting Done takes multiple steps and there are areas where you may hit or move or change settings while doing it makes it extremely frustrating, I wish if you could just design the templates and lock 90% of the customizability options. just my honest opinion.
Also, I love your approach and content around productivity and life improvement topics, and I hope you are able to guide notion and push them to make it a little more intuitive than just a strong platform for databases that can interact well together.
That's definitely one of the trade-offs with a tool like Notion. The part I love is that we're given a set of tools that we can use to build things much closer to the way we want. With my templates, I'm able to give people a starting point that works perfectly well out of the box if that's what they want - but also lets them customize nearly everything if they happen to want to change things. But because it's easy to change things... well, it's easy to change things. And even if we could lock things down, doing so wouldn't be a 100% positive thing. While it'd help the folks who want things to "just work", it'd add complexity for those who want to be able to quickly customize things. It's trade-offs all the way down 😁 When it comes to checking off tasks though, I find that to be pretty quick, personally. The Done checkbox is pretty much always visible. If you're having trouble with that, feel free to open a support request in our community (we're able to track those more easily than UA-cam comment replies).
Hey Thomas Frank, do you know how to set a daily reminder on notion? Not specifically a task itself, i just want to be reminded to do a task automatically instead of having to input one manually every time in notion.
Try creating a page and then creating a Button, customizing the Button how you need. If you search on UA-cam- Thomas Frank Notion Button, his excellent tutorial on the subject should pop right up. I love how he explains things so well. I just watched the video above a second time AFTER I configured my Home!
Not sure, but you can build that sync yourself using Pipedream, Zapier, or any other automation tool that supports both Notion and Todoist. Todoist -> Notion sync is nice because I believe Todoist has webhooks. Notion -> Todoist is a bit less ideal since you have to poll the Notion API, but still doable. 2-way sync is also doable, but more error-prone due to Notion not having webhooks yet.
They haven't said anything about it, but I wouldn't be surprised. And I don't think the calendar widget conflicts with Notion calendar, since it's right in the Notion app itself and useful in context with other widgets.
Hey bro are you recording in 24 FPS? If you are I'd consider moving to 30 because the clips when you are talking look visibly laggy to me just letting you know, Great Video!
I am, but the choppiness is happening because I experimented with recording directly into OBS with a Camlink 4k and it came back to bite me. Not sure why, as I've streamed to UA-cam with the same camera in the past without the choppiness.
I'm not convinced by this feature, yet. Seeing suggested, trending, recent... my alarm bells go off. These features are typically useless or trojan horses in my opinion. Microsoft has littered them in their interfaces, and they're precursors IMO to AI and advertising. The fact you can't remove them furthers those alarm bells. Why make them compulsory?
@tammy They want to attract new users and make them try the platform But they get lost in the Sandbox nature and leave. By putting these upfront, Older power users don't want this as it's going to interfere with their sandbox nature, something that Notion is known for
I don't really understand why they did this. Isn't it just a less-customisable-than-usual page template? Why didn't they add the new features (ie: the 'recently viewed' block, the 'multi-database task view', etc) as new content types? Then we could build fully customisable 'Home' pages which better suit our individual purposes.
My take: I think it's a way for them to both test out new features in a sandbox of sorts, and to give very non-technical users a dashboard that doesn't require them to build anything and that removes most opportunities to make accidental changes that can break things. Personally, I agree with you - I'd love to have all these new tools just available as blocks so I can use them in my own builds however I like. But I recognize that there are many different types of users!
Honestly what a convoluted system, it would take you hours just to get information into this setup. It's better you took the time and actually prepare for your meetings. This thing needs 10 years of refining. Why not have a task button that when click brings up a template that you populate and set as a task.
That Home feature looked quit promising. Tried it on my second brain, but in the My Tasks widget, I cannot filter for a checkbox called 'Archive' which is in the (task) database, rendering it useless for me. I don't want to see all the archived stuff (I'm using the PARA modelin my second brain).
I was able to change my archive/status columns to the checkbox view on Home so that I can check it off and it doesn't appear, and then I can create a second view back in my task database that lets me still see the Status Select. Hope that helps.
Bah. Unfortunately, the lack of filtering options on tasks have made Home unworkable. I consolidated all of my tasks into a single database to fit in with the new Project/Tasks paradigm. But my workflow tasks (repeating check-lists for each stage of a web design project) all get filtered out of my main tasks with a single property, but I can't do that here, so it's just populated with hundreds of unchecked irrelevant tasks. Sigh. Great video though.
Have you tried restarting your app? It's also possible the rollout hasn't reached a very small % of users, though they said it should have been live for everyone by May 28. It's available on the free plan, so you may want to ping their support if restarting doesn't fix it!
Kinda cool, but the only feature I would truly hype over at this point is custom colors to replace the hideous dark mode nightmare they created. Bothers the Fk out of my eyes to work on light screen and dark more is ...well.. a face only mother could love but even more ugly
Converting an old DB into a new DB via a wizard is amazing. I used to spend hours trying to migrate old DBs. Also a big thumbs up for Thomas&Mom list.
Thank you so much, Thomas. This I really helpful.
Helpful? Well, a better word would be Magic.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you, Martin!
Thanks Thomas for being my notion guide since I started using it.
I'm really glad they added this!
Thanks for this! I stopped using Notion regularly for a few months and they added this in so I had no idea what to do with it! I'm used to designing my own Home pages, so wasn't sure what the advantages of Notion's version was.
Fantastic - this is music to my ears.
The task section could be done before using a single Task database and adding filtered views inside each project/page. It is the way I manage my projects in Notion. I am glad they added this because it's easier to make changes. Thanks for the great review
Thanks, Thomas!
I was literally watching a Notion tutorial you did, thank you for this!!!
For me, at least on my iPad Notion app, it does offer the Home page but a bit parred down at least for now. It's got the Recents and My Tasks. The way I found it was scrolling down towards the bottom of the iPad app and there it was.
Kinda nifty, I hope they ad a pegboard/shortcuts area as that’s about the only thing different with my own dashboard. And text size adjustment on mobile apps, one of these days, ugh.
you had me at tasks across multiple databases! It's the only feature Confluence had over Notion 😄 wish it'd work with to-do lists as well where your name is tagged
OMG! Im up at 5am enjoying this!! thanks Notion hope to see more this coming months
at 8:20 your options looks different than mine: I have the "source option" there and I can ONLY PICK ONE. Why is that? It makes this entire feature useless if I can not combine databases >:(
Really awesome, the widgets suggested for you and trending aren't available for me.
Would you take a look at the Sprint feature which could be integrated for task / project planning and recurring tasks? You find it in your task database properties as an info widget.
I don't have the suggested and trending section on my home. As well as been able to have notes etc. I'm wondering if it's because I'm only on the free personal account of notion
I pay for Notion and I don't have the trending and suggested sections either. So, I'm not sure why that might be for us except for maybe it hasn't rolled out to us yet...?
once notion allows me to use it offline, it will be all I use
1:50 What's the 'Notion AI' button I see on your left sidebar just above Home button?
I use Notion AI too, but don't have this button..!
can you please make a video talking about the smartlist you mentioned at 7:55
I'll be covering it to a small degree in my upcoming task manager tutorial! I'll also make a video on doing GTD in Notion soon :)
@@ThomasFrankExplains thanks for the reply
@@ThomasFrankExplains YAY! To both of those!!
Why I cant pick a Source in the filter? 😶
also, the default home view comes without "my tasks" and notes.
Hmm, maybe the feature is still rolling out to your workspace. You can also try reseting your app: www.notion.so/help/reset-notion
@@yosikimhi I have the same problem - did resetting the app work for you?
Great stuff, man! Thanks for the vid!
Finally notion 🖤 love the feature
My left sidebar is so cluttered, hence I've completely missed this feature... 😬
Thanks for a reminder!
Been waiting for this! Love the consolidated task view. But I need my 24 hr time format in the Calendar widget (as it's my setting everywhere else, including in Notion Calendar).
Home just pulls from your original database, so as long as you use the three properties to create it as a task database, then when you need more details from that database, you can select it by keeping the database name showing. It will take you to the database with the extra customizations.
I wish they could do something about the TASK without due date property.
I did buy your full template, and I tried to love Notion but when creating a To-Do Task or Event and hitting Done takes multiple steps and there are areas where you may hit or move or change settings while doing it makes it extremely frustrating, I wish if you could just design the templates and lock 90% of the customizability options. just my honest opinion.
Also, I love your approach and content around productivity and life improvement topics, and I hope you are able to guide notion and push them to make it a little more intuitive than just a strong platform for databases that can interact well together.
That's definitely one of the trade-offs with a tool like Notion. The part I love is that we're given a set of tools that we can use to build things much closer to the way we want. With my templates, I'm able to give people a starting point that works perfectly well out of the box if that's what they want - but also lets them customize nearly everything if they happen to want to change things.
But because it's easy to change things... well, it's easy to change things. And even if we could lock things down, doing so wouldn't be a 100% positive thing. While it'd help the folks who want things to "just work", it'd add complexity for those who want to be able to quickly customize things. It's trade-offs all the way down 😁
When it comes to checking off tasks though, I find that to be pretty quick, personally. The Done checkbox is pretty much always visible. If you're having trouble with that, feel free to open a support request in our community (we're able to track those more easily than UA-cam comment replies).
How do we get Notion Ai in the sidebar and new Home page?
I was trying to figure out what you're talking about on my phone right as you were saying that home is not available for mobile 😅.
Hey Thomas Frank, do you know how to set a daily reminder on notion? Not specifically a task itself, i just want to be reminded to do a task automatically instead of having to input one manually every time in notion.
Try creating a page and then creating a Button, customizing the Button how you need. If you search on UA-cam- Thomas Frank Notion Button, his excellent tutorial on the subject should pop right up. I love how he explains things so well. I just watched the video above a second time AFTER I configured my Home!
6 days late but they just released Home to every device! Including mobile devices!
Frank, do you know if they are going to add syncing with Todoist like they showed 3 years ago?
Not sure, but you can build that sync yourself using Pipedream, Zapier, or any other automation tool that supports both Notion and Todoist.
Todoist -> Notion sync is nice because I believe Todoist has webhooks. Notion -> Todoist is a bit less ideal since you have to poll the Notion API, but still doable. 2-way sync is also doable, but more error-prone due to Notion not having webhooks yet.
Do you think this'll be coming to mobile? How are they reconciling the calendar widget with their own Notion calendar?
They haven't said anything about it, but I wouldn't be surprised. And I don't think the calendar widget conflicts with Notion calendar, since it's right in the Notion app itself and useful in context with other widgets.
Hey bro are you recording in 24 FPS? If you are I'd consider moving to 30 because the clips when you are talking look visibly laggy to me just letting you know, Great Video!
I am, but the choppiness is happening because I experimented with recording directly into OBS with a Camlink 4k and it came back to bite me. Not sure why, as I've streamed to UA-cam with the same camera in the past without the choppiness.
I'm not convinced by this feature, yet. Seeing suggested, trending, recent... my alarm bells go off. These features are typically useless or trojan horses in my opinion. Microsoft has littered them in their interfaces, and they're precursors IMO to AI and advertising. The fact you can't remove them furthers those alarm bells. Why make them compulsory?
But Notion already has an AI
Exactly - Notion hasn't been coy about the AI features, which were there well before this feature.
This is an interesting comment. Could you explain to the naive why this is a concern please?
@tammy They want to attract new users and make them try the platform But they get lost in the Sandbox nature and leave.
By putting these upfront, Older power users don't want this as it's going to interfere with their sandbox nature, something that Notion is known for
I don't really understand why they did this. Isn't it just a less-customisable-than-usual page template? Why didn't they add the new features (ie: the 'recently viewed' block, the 'multi-database task view', etc) as new content types? Then we could build fully customisable 'Home' pages which better suit our individual purposes.
As Thomas mentioned, it is a jumping off point for many people and allows COMBINING tasks from different databases in ONE VIEW which is awesome!!!!
@@manager-businessdeniserdrc7018 Thanks for your response but it didn't really answer my questions...
My take: I think it's a way for them to both test out new features in a sandbox of sorts, and to give very non-technical users a dashboard that doesn't require them to build anything and that removes most opportunities to make accidental changes that can break things.
Personally, I agree with you - I'd love to have all these new tools just available as blocks so I can use them in my own builds however I like. But I recognize that there are many different types of users!
@@ThomasFrankExplains Yeah that all makes sense. Thanks for the response.
Thanks, for the video. Im not sure why you say this is new, I have this feature since I start using notion like 6 months ago
You have a higher tier of Notion. They added it to lower tiers
Honestly what a convoluted system, it would take you hours just to get information into this setup. It's better you took the time and actually prepare for your meetings. This thing needs 10 years of refining. Why not have a task button that when click brings up a template that you populate and set as a task.
That Home feature looked quit promising. Tried it on my second brain, but in the My Tasks widget, I cannot filter for a checkbox called 'Archive' which is in the (task) database, rendering it useless for me. I don't want to see all the archived stuff (I'm using the PARA modelin my second brain).
I was able to change my archive/status columns to the checkbox view on Home so that I can check it off and it doesn't appear, and then I can create a second view back in my task database that lets me still see the Status Select. Hope that helps.
Notion calendar is useless for me unfortunately. It needs outlook integration 😢
API?
@@xavthomas No, he looks kinda upset about it all.
I don't have this feature, yet?
You can try resetting the app! www.notion.so/help/reset-notion
It's also possible a small portion of users still don't have it.
Bah. Unfortunately, the lack of filtering options on tasks have made Home unworkable. I consolidated all of my tasks into a single database to fit in with the new Project/Tasks paradigm. But my workflow tasks (repeating check-lists for each stage of a web design project) all get filtered out of my main tasks with a single property, but I can't do that here, so it's just populated with hundreds of unchecked irrelevant tasks. Sigh.
Great video though.
I see Home on the mobile app for Android.
Interesting - maybe it's rolling out to Android first, then iOS later. My iOS app is up-to-date and Home isn't showing in any of my workspaces.
@@ThomasFrankExplains My guess Apple took offence at the word 'Home' and stalled the app.. 😂
I'm leaving notion bevause it doesn't work as it worked before on my phone
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I am a free user, no 'Home' for me then???
Have you tried restarting your app? It's also possible the rollout hasn't reached a very small % of users, though they said it should have been live for everyone by May 28. It's available on the free plan, so you may want to ping their support if restarting doesn't fix it!
Kinda cool, but the only feature I would truly hype over at this point is custom colors to replace the hideous dark mode nightmare they created. Bothers the Fk out of my eyes to work on light screen and dark more is ...well.. a face only mother could love but even more ugly
You lost me when you said "Legos"! The plural of Lego is Lego, sorry.
I did prickle me, but it's not the end of the world.
@@OldUKAds I'm just kidding. Kinda ;)
Blame my mom; it was "legos" when I was a small child 😁