Hello! I'm Rei, an official Notion Ambassador.
Have you ever used any Notion integrations?
There are actually many Notion integrations that can make Notion more convenient and stylish, such as tools for quickly sending notes to Notion, graphing databases, embeddable widgets, and features to change colors and fonts.
Today, I've carefully selected and will introduce 8 recommended integrations that you'll want to use with Notion!
I personally use all of these, so please give them a try 👀
🎬 Director: Rei
✍🏻 Writer: Kurumi Mino
1. Alfred
I'm sure some of you might think the first one is too niche (lol), but the first app I'd like to introduce is "Alfred," an app that lets you quickly call up Notion.
Alfred is what's known as a launcher app, which allows you to easily launch various apps.
By linking Alfred with Notion, you can quickly open Notion and send notes to it.
To use it, after linking with Notion, simply type a designated command and then type in what you want to note. With just these steps, you can easily send notes to Notion.
The great thing about this extension is that you can send notes instantly even when other pages are open. When you're working on something else on your PC and think, "I need to do this later!" you can quickly jot it down, eliminating the need to open Notion every time, which is incredibly convenient.
By the way, fellow Notion Ambassador Tsuburaya has a guide on how to link Alfred and Notion, so please check it out!
2. Save to Notion
Next up is "Save to Notion," a Google Chrome extension that lets you quickly save web pages to Notion.
This extension allows you to quickly save pages you want to keep or reread later as articles in Notion. I really like and use this one often.
To use it, simply open the article you want to save, click the "Save to Notion" icon in the top right, select the destination database, and fill in the properties.
Then, the article is automatically saved to the database you specified earlier, like this.
By the way, you can also apply this to type in text, so you can use it in a similar way to Alfred mentioned earlier. I love this extension because of its versatility.
3. FastNotion
Third is "Fast Notion," a smartphone app. This is also a tool to quickly send notes to Notion, but this tool allows you to send notes to Notion from your smartphone.
It's incredibly easy to use. On an iPhone, just launch the app, select the destination (where you want to save the note), type in your text, and tap "Send."
It's also worth noting that you can not only send regular text but also ToDo blocks and notes to databases.
Unlike the PC tool mentioned earlier, the smartphone app is incredibly convenient for quickly jotting down notes on your phone while on the train or when you don't have access to your computer.
4. Notion2Charts
Next up is "Notion2Charts," a service that's useful when creating documents in Notion. It's a service that actually graphs Notion databases (Tables).
To use it, simply select the type of graph you want to create and your database in Notion2Charts. You can choose from various graph types, including bar charts, line charts, and pie charts.
Since a URL can be obtained for the created graph, you can copy it and embed it in Notion as shown below.
By the way, if you edit the original database in Notion, it's reflected in the graph in real-time. I thought this was a really convenient feature!
I've always hoped that this feature, which graphs databases, would eventually be added to Notion itself...💭
5. TwiNotion
Next up is "TwiNotion," a service that automatically saves your Twitter tweets to Notion.
This service lets you save your tweets and images to a database in Notion. Besides your own tweets, you can also save tweets you've liked in the same way.
Furthermore, the tweet itself is embedded in the body of the database, so you can also check how it appears on Twitter.
By the way, this feature to embed tweets was actually developed by Tsuburaya-san, the creator, after I mentioned that I "wish it existed" (lol).
It's a recommended service for those who frequently use Twitter and want to review their own tweets or tweets they've liked by date, or for those who use Twitter for work.
6. Notion Slides
Next, "Notion Slides" is a Chrome extension that converts Notion slides into presentation materials.
It's a magical tool that transforms pages created in Notion into PowerPoint-like slides, like this.
To use it, you just write your presentation content on a Notion page, then convert it directly using the Chrome extension button in the top right, or by pasting the page's URL into the official website. With just these steps, you can easily create presentation materials.
It actually looks pretty good (lol), so I thought it might be enough for simple presentations.
By the way, I once had to present at a Notion Meet Up (a real-life event), and when I used Notion Slides to create my presentation materials, it was very well received!
7. Notion Themes
Next up is "Notion Themes," a Chrome extension that lets you easily change the appearance of Notion. It's a service that allows you to change Notion's background color and font to your preferred choices.
To use it, after installation, select "Notion Themes" from the options in the top right of Notion, and then choose your favorite theme and font. That's all it takes to easily change the look and feel of your page!
Being able to change the color and font to match the theme and atmosphere of the page you want to create would further expand the possibilities of pages you can make in Notion and make it more enjoyable.
8. Apption
Lastly, my favorite website that I also use is "Apption." This site is a kind of summary site for extensions and widgets that can be embedded in Notion.
It's packed with various services that can be embedded in Notion, such as weather widgets, integrations with Spotify and Google Calendar, and Pomodoro timers.
I personally found the weather and clock widgets here and use them on my home screen.
Although it's in English, the site also explains how to embed them.
Please try to find your favorite widgets here and embed them in Notion. (It's a rabbit hole, isn't it? lol)
Conclusion
That concludes my introduction of 8 Notion extensions! What did you think? Were there any extensions that caught your eye?
If you haven't used extensions before or found an interesting feature, please give it a try.
And, there are still many more extensions I'd like to introduce besides the ones mentioned here, so I'll write another article soon.
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