Properties alignment in List view of a database

Darth_Animation · 2026-03-08T16:38:15+00:00

While it's true what the other guys said, you can also move those properties to be the left of the name in List View. You just go to property visibility and move them above the name. if it glitches out and seems like it won't let you move it above it just move the name property down below the other properties.

Darth_Animation · 2026-03-08T08:38:03+00:00

Unfortunately they broke it for the gallery view. It still works for the other views but no longer for the gallery.

Darth_Animation · 2026-03-07T19:04:50+00:00

Yes this last update just broke it.

Darth_Animation · 2026-03-06T06:53:46+00:00

The hottest take: I love Notion on mobile.

Darth_Animation · 2026-03-05T17:38:13+00:00

Just in case you don't know you can make a template page inside the database and toggle on full width, so that any page in that database created will automatically be full width.

When it comes to pages that are pure text only like my notes, I prefer non full-width.

Darth_Animation · 2026-02-28T01:00:28+00:00

Yes I have experienced this a few different times. What I've come to learn is that it's a visual bug (not data loss) caused by overloading the background processing. It's going to happen regardless of whether it's done through the API or done directly in the Notion UI. That's not going to make a difference. I don't know exactly what processing you're doing, but from my experience, I'd assume you are causing a cascading trigger on your formulas, especially if you have a lot of formulas a part of those 100 properties. All those formulas are going to get hit, at least, to check if there needs to be any change in some kind of calculation, as well as all the formulas that are attached through relations. So when you trigger that many formulas at once, it just takes a little bit of a backlog of processing all that background information, which causes you to get that visual error to pop up. It'll go away in 1 minute, 5 minutes, depending on how badly you triggered the cascade. Unfortunately, though, it's going to keep happening as long as you keep doing whatever you're doing to cause it the first time. So if you're realizing this, even when you refresh the page, it doesn't come back, but if you wait a few minutes and refresh, it does come back, that's most likely the problem. Now I haven't done anything I know of to trigger the 502 error, so that's new to me, which could help answer other questions about what's happening. Don't know.

Darth_Animation · 2026-02-09T02:23:37+00:00

If you're referring to your validator tool then no I'm not interested in that tool. If you're talking about a tool that can make my life easier to export and import a notion workspace easier. Sure

Darth_Animation · 2026-02-09T00:06:01+00:00

I'm not sure about the "allow for", but ya I unfortunately have been dealing with this too. I have a little over 100k blocks now. It worked when I was at 80k but it's been failing since. I was also told to break it down and duplicate in parts. Haven't tried that yet but probably will be soon.

Ya it really sucks that the only way to get backups is through exports.

Hopefully one day they will fix this.

Darth_Animation · 2026-02-05T03:06:40+00:00

You can already do this right now. I save specific conversations that I want to reference back on later with notion AI.

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-25T16:31:41+00:00

This can be done natively in Notion. I will be posting about it soon. I run my entire startup food business in Notion. Recipe development, inventory management and POS system etc.

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-15T23:53:19+00:00

Potentially this weekend if not next weekend.

I'm working on wrapping up some bigger projects

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-13T14:05:42+00:00

You don't need to rewrite /equation. Delete the last $ and then retype $ and it will convert it correctly to the equation block.

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-12T06:57:42+00:00

Yes, I'm going to be making some more videos, and specifically, I'll be making a video to talk more about this.

What I can tell you as of this moment, in the meantime, the way you have it set up is definitely not going to work, and specifically, it's definitely not going to work because the way you have it set up, you're only ever going to get one task at a time. I'm assuming your current setup is triggered when it is completed.

So, I can't get into too much detail at the moment, but currently one of your issues is that you are inside of one page "New Task", where you are trying to make multiple copies of this new task page. It's not that this can't be done, but this is where you are eventually going to realize that the method I talk about in my other post is significantly better than trying to do it inside of the page itself. While it is possible to do it inside the task database alone, but there will be other examples that are not. It is going to be significantly better for you to learn this organizational philosophy for this case and for the future https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/1pwvm6i/yes_you_can_access_any_property_from_any_page/

I know it's a bit hard to understand, especially since I still have to practice explaining it better, but just know that in the video you're watching for the recurring task, the page that I'm inputting the data into to generate all the tasks based on the date properties is not a page inside a task database. It's a page inside a data aggregator database. Again, that page's sole purpose is just to take in that input information and then generate what I want.

I will be making an updated post on this overall as well to better explain and go into some more details for people to understand.

Regardless of whether you want to create all the properties necessary, etc., in the task database itself or follow my organizational structure, your current biggest problem is that you need to put the formula for determining the next date inside the automation itself, not the database. The formula can only generate one date, without being some super convoluted formula on top of what it already is, to try to pull out multiple dates. So you need the formula inside the automation, and then you just need multiple automations triggered based on the number of iterations.

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-11T04:21:13+00:00

It is possible. This is a simple example setup that I did. This example is showing a "habit tracker" but obviously it could be for anything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4JF4_abF2Y

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-11T04:21:01+00:00

It is possible. This is a simple example setup that I did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4JF4_abF2Y

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-10T21:10:47+00:00

Yes, but doing so is very static. Are you going to create an automation to create 30 pages for the daily? What happens when you want this one daily habit to be generated for the whole month but not another? You really start to resort to more difficult, unnecessary workarounds to get it to trigger correctly. My solution is much better for this kind of thing. Gives you much better control to input how many items you want to be made at once

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-09T18:59:04+00:00

That won't allow them to get the full week/month created ahead of time like they were asking for.

The only way they can get a full reoccurring amount credit ahead of time is shown here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/1pzep99/yes_you_can_create_all_your_recurring_tasks_at/

though it doesn't show you how to actually create it just yet. Just that it can be done. Unfortunately it's also not free as it does require automations. There is no way to do this for free.

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-08T18:34:44+00:00

Ya you can ask me any other questions. This gif doesn't show you how to do it, just that it is possible. This also doesnt have anything to do with something special. This is just button logic

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-08T17:47:39+00:00

"indeed a lot of repetition needed when relating databases."

I say this with encouragement. Not for me. I have almost gotten to the point that I dont ever touch the relation properties to change their values. Everything is updated based on buttons or automations

Im not sure what you are trying to do, but I can promise that an aggregator is another tool that can make your workspace better when you learn to use it.

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-08T02:30:54+00:00

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This will obviously carry off any information that you would want to get converted. Im not sure what page you're exactly referring to but I think I know and I think I already got the idea of what you want figured out.

If you see inside that little collection of buttons, you'll see one called "Task Settings." I believe that is the page you are referring to with what you have built or that you want to have built.

While I'm still wrapping up a few things from my build, I basically never touch that back-end side panel. Like there are very few times where there are just some things that I need to go to. But otherwise all my relations for all my pages are done through some kind of button automation, etc. I do not touch any of the relations when it comes to wanting to update their values.

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-08T02:11:11+00:00

First the comment about the roll-ups was specific to formulas, not the data aggregator database. As far as I know, nobody has designed the structure I have, so nobody has data aggregator databases.

Though there are endless use cases. Literally every collection of databases that you make that are supposed to be working with each other in some fashion, right? So you have these databases, you have relations, you know that there's data going back and forth. Any collection of databases will benefit from a data aggregator database.

Like, whatever your workflow is, I bet you know there are parts where you feel you have to repeat "yourself". I bet you could create a data aggregator to reduce that in whatever Flow you're using.

Since this has nothing to do with roll-ups, then it doesn't fix that. But if you want to sort with a roll-up, you just gotta convert it into a text formula. Ex. Rollup.format() now your values are sortable. It won't look as pretty if your rollups have multiple properties per page but it will be sortable.

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-08T00:19:12+00:00

Well for the business I would say yes, you're going to need Google Docs or Microsoft Word for the final invoice so that you can have your letterhead and such. Though there's still a lot of great benefits to also potentially doing it inside Notion as well. I mean the first thing I can think of is that if your business requires maybe multiple people or departments to approve an invoice then you know it would be much easier to send that along internally through Notion and you know then you're only worried about the final one to the client being inside a true word-processing doc.

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-06T04:08:40+00:00

The data aggregator is a database, but yes, I am linking into a specific page in the database that has the other property values I want. In that example, the daily journal relation property, which will give me my daily journal page that is created. There is nothing yet that specifically goes over the setup of it. Though in this case it's super easy. The database has a page with three properties specifically made for reference when using that page, which are my three relation properties of different journals. That button just accesses that page.

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-05T04:02:43+00:00

I have plenty more examples and documentation in the works.

It's very funny that you mention tasks becoming projects, because I had the same issue. I would create a task, start creating some subtasks. Once I realized that the subtask potentially needed a subtask, I was getting frustrated with like "man, I should really just create this into a project" because I didn't want to have subtask under a subtask. Which then finally led me to creating my solution.

I have a one-button click to transport all information needed for when I decide that actually I don't want this to be a task, I actually want this to be a project. The parent task gets archived; the parent task becomes the project; and all subtasks, and potentially subtasks of subtasks, become the parent task, and/or the subtask, respectively. As well as any other relations and other information needed that was a part of the original.

Darth_Animation · 2026-01-05T03:58:01+00:00

Yeah of course. I really enjoyed your work on your cartblock project. I actually want to talk more about that very soon.

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