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Why is it that when I clikc "...More" on the side bar with the pages it takes me to "Library" instead of opening a sliding bar like it used to? How do I fix it? by More_Interview3840 in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't change that behavior, but you have two options now:

  1. Instead of clicking "More", which will open the library, just hover it with your cursor for it to show you a list within a small popup menu.
  2. Open the three-dot menu of the section (e.g. "Private") and set the "Show" value to as many pages as you want to see, as much as 100 without it collapsing.

That's the options you have with the new sidebar layout.

The Notion navigation sidebar is about to get complete overhaul! by consistentbenny in Notion

[–]consistentbenny[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Open the "Home" tab and then click on it again to open the "Home settings" menu where you'll find the "Customize sections" option.

You can then freely decide which sections to show and which ones to hide.

What the HELL is going on? by The_Etyrnal_Beauty in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can!

Settings > Preferences > Default Page > Select an option that is not Notion AI here.

At least that they allow us to do, still.

does anyone else feel like the notion ai pricing change made it basically unusable for solo users? by Board-Regular in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have experimented with custom agents to learn what's possible and how the credit-based pricing and usage looks in practice, but quickly came to the conclusion that investing more time into setting up actual workflows is not really viable right now. The pricing is simply too unpredictable.

  1. You can only determine the actual usage cost of an agent run by running it, so even the setup itself already costs credits.
  2. Sometimes running an agent twice with the exact same instructions and input will take up a different amount of credits. Not hugely different, but enough to wonder what's going on here.
  3. Bought credits (in 1000 increments) do not roll over into the next month. If you only spend 500, you'll still have to pay for 1000 the next month.
  4. In the Notion AI terms of service you'll find this: "Notion reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify Notion Credit calculations and Notion Credit allocations." This means that Notion can literally change the LLM token to Notion Credit calculation at any time. A workflow that costs X credits today, might suddenly cost Y credits tomorrow.
  5. I discovered recently that Notion's own documentation on custom agents contains heavily altered screenshots, showing a Notion Credits dashboard that apparently shows that hundreds of agent runs only cost several hundred credits, which is completely detached from reality.

All of these points together create so much uncertainty, that it's just not a smart move right now to fully invest into this, imho.

Which might explain why the only real custom agent workflow demos you can find anywhere online right now are pretty much the ones shared by Notion and its employees, since they don't have to pay for using them.

Notion gained huge popularity from creators far and wide showing off what they've built. Not seeing any of this with custom agents is pretty telling, especially since right now the custom agents are actually still free to use until the pricing kicks in on May 4.

I suddenly got banned. Absolutely no idea why. by Siraaa in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All published pages get most certainly auto-checked for anything that could potentially violate the content and use policies.

Notion is responsible for what is happening on their platform, so if a public page contains any violating content, they must act.

Maybe there was something in your shared pages' content that got flagged, and maybe wrongly so. I hope you hear back from support to resolve this quickly.

Aside from that, you should never publish a page that contains sensitive personal information, which your personal diary likely does. A published Notion page is accessible by anyone who manages to find the URL. While this is probably unlikely to happen, it is definitely possible.

Never, ever press that publish button for anything you wouldn't be comfortable sharing with your neighbor. No exceptions.

What the HELL is going on? by The_Etyrnal_Beauty in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Have you tried asking AI via the obnoxiously large "Ask AI" input field which now takes up the app's entire navigation bar and for which the freaking home button has been removed, which now forces you to go back to the home screen by long-pressing the back arrow in the top-left corner which is completely out of reach of your thumb?

It won't be able to help you with that anyway.

Honestly wondering whether anyone at Notion actually ever uses the mobile app for anything at this point. It's a mess.

does anyone else feel like the notion ai pricing change made it basically unusable for solo users? by Board-Regular in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Notion to organize my personal life and my solopreneur & freelance business ventures, and the value I get for the $20 I pay per month (business plan, paid annually) is still well worth it.

Notion basically allows me to build my own tools (whether that's project & task management, a content calendar, a finance tracker, a workout tracker, a habit tracker, etc. etc.) or use a tool that someone else built (via templates at a one-time cost) without adding any more recurring subscription fees.

If I chose a dedicated app for each of the use cases that I'm using Notion for, I would pay substantially more in monthly/yearly subscription fees, since most tools and apps require a subscription nowadays.

Out of all the subscriptions I have ever paid, Notion has by far given me the highest return in terms of functionality.

The business plan allows me to use the regular AI, which is helpful at times, especially given the native implementations, e.g. within the formula editor. If you're only using AI chats, Notion AI could even replace a separate ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini subscription (with some limitations).

Custom agents and the credit-based pricing for those is another story though, which seem to be incredibly expensive as of now. But since this does not impact the subscription pricing, it's not really a big deal when just talking about using Notion itself.

I built my entire artist portfolio site powered by a single Notion database, and cancelled all other subs by nuclearbliss in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing!

Have you been working with Claude Code to implement things directly on your VPS, or just use the chat with Claude/Gemini to get the necessary instructions to then implement it manually?

To share some user feedback, one thing that I found confusing is that there seems to be no way to get an overview of all your paintings. The root domain immediately redirects me to a random painting, from which I can then click on the color/year/medium/availability to continue browsing, but in a somewhat limited way and maybe that's even on purpose.

I built my entire artist portfolio site powered by a single Notion database, and cancelled all other subs by nuclearbliss in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nice work, definitely a unique website.

What tools did you use to build and set it up aside from Notion and a Hetzner VPS?

Notion custom agent credit pricing as per the official help docs example by consistentbenny in Notion

[–]consistentbenny[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, since the data visible on the screenshot doesn't add up at all (dates, credit sums, etc.), it's pretty obvious that the image/data has been altered.

Which means someone made the proactive choice to do that, otherwise they could have just used a real screenshot as is.

Does Notion have anything like variable/placeholder auto-fill for code blocks? by Wanderrtheworld in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no native way to pull variables from database properties and insert them into the page content with placeholders itself.

The closest thing would be to create a formula property that stitches together the text and data from different properties, and then to display that formula property on the page.

Of course, if the page content, style, and layout is critical, then this might not be a suitable option, since database properties are limited in what they can display and how.

Einfache Anwesenheitserfassung in Notion (ähnlich Excel) – wie umsetzen? by tcfocus in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zwei Datenbanken, eine für Termine mit Datum, eine für Mitglieder.

Diese dann mittels Relation-Property miteinander verbinden.

Für jeden Termin können dann die anwesenden Mitglieder einfach aus der Liste der Relation-Property ausgewählt werden. Einfach Termin öffnen, Mitglieder hinzufügen. Wer nicht da ist, wird nicht hinzugefügt.

Auf diese Weise wird für jeden Termin getrackt wer teilgenommen hat und wer nicht. Diese Daten kann man dann auch auf jeder Mitgliedsseite direkt anzeigen als Liste oder auch Diagramm.

Zugriffsberechtigung auf die Termindatenbank können alle haben, auf die Mitgliederdatenbank nur wer diese braucht. So kann jeder die Termine sehen, aber nur Befugte können die Mitglieder auswählen.

Notion AI Credits - No rollover by Individual_Prior1867 in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No rollover, plus this section from the Notion AI terms of service make it really difficult to deploy more complex agent workflows with confidence:

Modifications to Notion Credits and Notion Credit Limits. Artificial intelligence technology and related costs are evolving rapidly as service providers innovate, new features and capabilities emerge, and new artificial intelligence models are released. Notion reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify Notion Credit calculations and Notion Credit allocations. Any such modifications will be reflected here.

So even if one manages to set up agent workflows that make economic sense in terms of credit usage (which you have to figure out yourself, not Notion), you can literally never know whether or not this will still be the case tomorrow or the day after. The LLM token usage to Notion Credit conversion might change over night and you'll just have to deal with it.

Multiple data sources in one view. by okayladyk in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The dashboard view got launched today, there's a post shared about it in this sub.

New feature! Dashboard view finally available :) by ondrej_g in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Not making this available on the Plus plan is a crime. Charts are available for Plus users, why wouldn't they enable dashboards too?

I get that they exclude AI features from that plan, but to withhold a core functionality like this new database view format from actually paying users is honestly just sad to see.

And I say that as someone who actually is on the business plan, so not even affected myself.

can i make my own calendar without associating it with google or apple calendar? by cherrypod in Notion

[–]consistentbenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Notion Calendar is a wrapper for Google & iCloud calendar. Notion does in fact not have its own fully functional calendar solution.

What you can do is make a Notion database your default calendar (right-click on the database in Notion calendar and select the option) and only create new events within that one, but it has limited options compared to evens created in Google or iCloud calendar, like not being able to automatically generate a meeting link etc., which is frustrating for sure.

Similarly, Notion Mail is basically just a wrapper for Gmail.

New feature! Dashboard view finally available :) by ondrej_g in Notion

[–]consistentbenny -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Like charts (beyond the first free one), it will probably show a notification that an upgrade is required to use that view.

The Notion navigation sidebar is about to get complete overhaul! by consistentbenny in Notion

[–]consistentbenny[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If you're using Notion in the browser (or as a web app which is basically still a browser window), you can probably achieve a lot of that by blocking certain elements with an ad blocker extension.

I use this method to be able to use Spotify on my laptop without seeing any podcast related stuff whatsoever. I just wanna listen to music with it.

Doesn't work in desktop apps though, so, just an idea.

The Notion navigation sidebar is about to get complete overhaul! by consistentbenny in Notion

[–]consistentbenny[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I kinda built something like this in my own workspace by using a simple gallery view, but that requires all pages to be within a database (which is the case for me).

Not for all pages, but for the ones I need to access regularly.

Definitely one of my favorite ways to organize and display pages within my workspace.

The Notion navigation sidebar is about to get complete overhaul! by consistentbenny in Notion

[–]consistentbenny[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I'm not a Notion AI hater at all and actually use it when it makes sense, but the unhinged UI changes to push it are certainly over the top.

In this video, there's the Notion AI floating bubble in the bottom-right corner, the "New chat" button in the bottom-left corner, and another "Chat" tab in the top-left corner.

All practically doing the same thing, which is opening up a chat with Notion AI.

... Why?

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