Are you proficient in using Notion's "button feature"?
The button feature automatically performs various actions with a single click. By mastering it, you can simplify frequently used actions with a single button, make operations from your smartphone more convenient, and utilize Notion even more effectively.
In this article, we'll show you how to create such useful buttons using the button feature, taking "daily journal template" and "habit tracker template" as examples!
📒 Create a "Write Today's Journal" button in the daily journal template
🏃🏻 Create a "Check" button in the habit tracker template
If you have the templates, please try making them together.
👇Here are the articles explaining each template!
🎬 Director：Rei
✍🏻 Writer：Minokurumi
1. What is the button feature?
Before explaining how to use it, I'd like to briefly describe the button feature.
The button feature allows various actions to be executed automatically by simply clicking a button.
You need to set an action that "does something when the button is pressed," and there are five types of actions to choose from below. These actions can be used individually or combined.
- Insert blocks: Freely insert specified blocks from text, lists, images, embeds, databases, and more.
- Add pages: Create a new page in the selected database.
- Edit pages: Edit properties.
- Show confirmation: Display a confirmation or warning popup.
- Open page: Open the selected page.
🔗For more detailed explanation of the button feature, click here
This time, we will introduce how to use the button feature using three actions: "Add page," "Edit page," and "Open page."
2. Create a "Write Today's Journal" button in your journal
The first is how to create a "Write Today's Journal" button in a journal template.
📒Button actions to use: "Add page", "Open page"→When the button is pressed, a new page will be created in the database and the page will open simultaneously.
By pressing the button, you can easily start writing your journal for the day.
The steps are as follows. If you have the template, let's try making it together while operating!
First, we will set the action ① "Create page," and then the action ② "Open page."
1-1. Setting the "Create page" action
1. Select "Button" from "+".
2. When the button action setting screen appears, select "Add page."
3. Select a database.
🔧Advanced tipIf there is a template, you can select it here. If you create a template with "@Today" already in the title, you can create a page with today's date already in the title with a single button click.
Now, when you press the button, a page will be added to the journal database. Next, let's set the "Open page" action right away.
1-2. Setting the "Open page" action
1. From "+ Add another step," select "Open page."
2. You can set which page to open. From the "Select page" button, select "Newly added page."
Now, the action "create a new page and open that page" has been set. All that's left is to choose an icon for the button, enter a name, and click the "Done" button.
Placing the button in the top left corner of the page makes it appear at the top when opened on a smartphone, making it easier to write journal entries from your phone.
You can apply the same method to create a "Add a book to read" button in your book list, and so on. It's convenient for quickly entering data on frequently used pages, so feel free to use it on various pages.
2. Create a "Check" button for the habit tracker
Next, we will introduce how to create a "Check" button, using the habit tracker template as an example.
🏃Button action to use: "Edit page"→When you press the button for a habit you completed today, that item will be checked.
We will create a button that, when pressed for a habit completed today, will check that item.
This time, as an example, we will create a button to check the habit "☀️ Wake up early."
2-1. Setting the "Edit page" action
1. Create a button and select "Edit page."
2. Select the database and click the "🔽" on the right end of "Pages to edit" to open the condition setting screen. Since a page with today's date in the title is created daily in the template, we will create a condition "Date contains 'Today'."
3. Click "Edit properties" and select "☀️ Wake up early."
4. You can choose to uncheck or check, so select "Checked."
The setup is now complete. All you have to do is edit the icon and press the "Done" button. If you leave the button name empty, it will be an icon-only button.
Similarly, I created buttons for each of the five habits and an "all check" button to check all of them.
For "all check," I set the instruction to check all items by continuing from the previous step and selecting "Edit another property."
The "Edit page" action used this time can be applied to editing other properties such as dates and tags, not just checkboxes. Please try it with various properties!
Summary
That concludes the explanation of the button feature and how to use it!
By setting buttons for pages you open daily or actions you perform, you can reduce minor burdens and use Notion more conveniently. Please try utilizing the button feature yourself.
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