Notion's New Automations Feature is a Game-Changer

I NEEDED THIS! thank you so much!

I really like the tip at 18:25 about sorting the automated task by "date created". The button feature also listed tasks in reverse and I never thought about this sorting idea. Thank you!

I applied the default tasks principle to automate phases of a project that I needed to show on a timeline and it worked wonders! In my timeline database, I used a rollup to pull pull the due date from the project page and the dateSubstract formula to configure the execution time and due date of each phase in relation to the due date of the project. Thank you for sharing your precious knowledge!

I noticed the little lightning bolt a few days ago and now this video pops up! Right on time!! I’m definitely integrating some cool automations within my professional workspace.

Thank you for all your help and guidance.

Thanks for the video Thomas =)

yay!! thank you so much❤ wanted to test out automations before i committed to upgrading to a paid plan to have access to them

Thank you for doing this insanely helpful videos while being super nerdy with the examples! The way you explain tech is amazing and I learn a lot about teaching from your videos :) One question: is the vampire you found a friend because I got an invite? :) Who was it?

Well done! Your explanations are easy to follow. You're one of the few YouTubers whose 40-minute videos I can watch without skipping. Great video!

one of the best thing I figured out in automation that I'm so exited about is the Checkboxes. You can make checkboxes Act like a button. Trigger [ When Check box is edited ] Action [ Add page to another database Choose a template ] [ edit Checkbox to [] Unchecked ] with this you technically make a button out of checkbox. you can use this as buy button to add a new page to "Sales" database.

The Time Tracking thing sounds really useful! I often struggle with estimating how long a thing will take.

Thank you for this! Channels like yours are essential for me to keep track of all the regular updates on Notion, and how I could use them for my own work and life :) Looking forward to the next one!

There have been those updates. I have been waiting for Thomas Fram Explains to go over it and explain it to me in English 😁

Excellent video! I've been using the button feature, so very manual. But this is a time saver. This is forcing me to use Project for more of my work! Thank you 🙂

this should be so helpful with goals and actions steps

great video as always Thomas, thank you. re the reverse sorting, buttons to the same too if creating steps in a database, so I typically created steps in a button in the reverse order to how I want them speaking of buttons, it would be great if a button could be converted into an automation, as lets face it, lots us will have taken time creating buttons as a solution before the automation came along

Something that I wanted them to add is putting a backlink to a page that was created by triggering a new page from another database. if you create a page on database [A] which resulted to creating a new page in Database [B] using automation. you should be able to choose if you wanted to add a backlink to it. this way tracing the flow is easier as you knew 2 pages are connected with each other via a backlink.

I'm really pleased with the decision to take over the company "Automate". Being a past Automate user, I'm delighted to see how wonderfully Notion has blended their superb service.

Isn't it possible to create a new database just for time tracking, and then having multiple start and end times for each working session. With rollups we could then "summarize" the time worked on a task. What are your thoughts on this?

Great video thanks for sharing! Quick question...is there any way to pull property data from the database you're setting up the automation for to the new one that you're adding the date to? For reference, I am automating my sales into a sales tracker, but then want to link that sale, via relation property to my Master Client List, but I'm not seeing a way to do this. If I create an automation to add page to Master Client List, It's not giving me the option to pull the client name/data from the sales tracker, which is not very efficient.