This is your rundown of the 30+ features and quality-of-life tweaks Notion made in the last year.
🧠 Ultimate Brain 3.0 (Full Second-Brain Template):
https://thomasjfrank.com/brain/
✈️ Flylighter (Our ultra-powerful web clipper – sign up for early access!):
https://flylighter.com/
📚 Notion Fundamentals (Free & Complete Notion Beginner’s Course)
https://thomasjfrank.com/fundamentals/
🎥 Creator’s Companion (The Best Template for Content Creators):
https://thomasjfrank.com/creators-companion/
👨💻 Notion-Helper (My NPM Library for the Notion API):
https://notion-helper.framer.website/
🔗 Article Version (Find all other links here):
https://thomasjfrank.com/every-notion-feature-released-in-2024/
➡️ Watch These Next:
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Notion Calendar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwk6l7q-QcI
10 More Notion Calendar Tricks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msGGSIqcumk
Notion Layout Builder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEggFZKOPb4
Native Recurring Tasks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYu4bFcC9v4
Notion Forms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-qQ3qMpA4w
Notion Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmjF33MtyeE
Notion Charts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_D8MlBAk0A
Notion Database Buttons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqIRV1bdS7k
Notion Sites Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ7UT6SYwJA
Build a Full Notion Site in 1 Hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA0-xFwhH4A
💪Get Started with Notion:
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https://thomasjfrank.com/usenotion/ – (this is my referral link)
🐦Connect With Me:
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Bluesky ➔ https://bsky.app/profile/thomasjfrank.com
Twitter ➔ https://twitter.com/tomfrankly
Instagram ➔ https://instagram.com/tomfrankly
Music ➔ @ThomasFrankMusic
Main Channel ➔ @Thomasfrank
⏱️ Timestamps:
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00:00 – Introduction
00:21 – Notion Calendar
01:40 – Layout Builder
03:15 – Notion Automations Features
03:51 – Custom Formulas in Automations
04:24 – Define Variables Action
05:07 – Send Notification Action
05:13 – Send Email Action
05:21 – Webhooks
07:02 – Forms
08:50 – Notion Home
10:09 – Charts
10:59 – Database Buttons
12:25 – Notion Sites
13:26 – Marketplace
14:53 – Custom Emoji
15:26 – Suggested Edits
16:15 – Notion AI Features
16:19 – Analyze PDFs with AI
17:10 – Global AI Shortcut
17:50 – AI Connectors
18:00 – One-Click AI Actions
18:12 – General Knowledge AI
18:15 – @-mention People and Pages in AI Prompts
18:21 – Use Page Links as AI Style Guides
18:37 – Minor New Features
18:51 – Floating Table of Contents
19:16 – Sidebar Upgrades
19:51 – New Inbox Pane
20:25 – URL Mentions
20:43 – Image Cropping
20:58 – PDF Import
21:30 – Pinned Tabs
21:47 – Apple Shortcut Actions
22:04 – Lightning Round
22:12 – New Formula Functions
22:43 – Text and Background Color Selector
22:57 – Button Background Colors
23:07 – Rounded Checkboxes
23:29 – Personalized Page URLs
23:51 – Comments on Database Properties
24:07 – Image Links
24:14 – Hover Previews
24:21 – Improved On-Page Search
24:49 – Show Details in Formulas
25:30 – Shortened URLs in Databases
25:39 – Hide Weekends in Calendar Views
25:44 – Monday Data Importer
25:56 – Flylighter – Web Clipper for Notion
26:47 – Ultimate Brain 3.0
28:24 – Notion-Helper (Notion API Library)
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Notion killed it in 2024. Excited for their mail feature.
Someone tell me how to write text side by side 😭
are you working or getting paid by Notion? going HAM my guy.
how about right to left writing ??????
I wish the floating table of contents also indexed toggle headers
You're the coolest 👏🏻
These may well bring me back! Holy cow 😲😲
I'm new to Notion, where do I even begin?
27:50 much easier to do that with iphone tasks. text you do on pages. they are much better handling this kind of jobs they are made for, and not some patchy way like notion, that tries do do everything, and do everything bad
Hi Thomas, How did you move the floating table of content to the left? 🙃This is how it appears at 19:09.
03:11 CTRL + Shift + shortcut does work for me in sidepeek.
Can you make a video about automations in notion cuz that sounds epic but also seems overwhelming would love to have to click less
I agree with you regarding widgets I would love to have the home task widget (or widgets in general) be something we can put into any page and have it work from there
thanks for the rundown, missed a few things earlier but this helped. sidenote: you don't need to add the annoying movie clips and sounds to make your videos interesting.
Thanks a lot
still the best Notion feature sucks , the parent sub item feature , its a requirement for me but the quality of life of it sucks , everything resures a word around and most times doesnt work
tip for noobies on webhooks , you can make your macrodroid app be your live server and make notion act on anything you do on your android , a free kinda of zapier /make (5€ for more than 5 macros)
macrodroid template community needs notion templates asap
in fact you could have a whole year worth of content based only on notion webhooks to work on thousands of android actions
the only thing i want and cant is display the databases views as widgets , would be so perfect
12:00 i used to be able to do this back in the day without buttons , by changing tags 😂
Maybe this year they will release a Linux desktop client? 😅
I know they announced an alpha version of offline mode, which now covers my biggest top two requests
Still no RTL support 🙂
Webhook sounds great. Do you know if there are plans to use webhooks get data into Notion? For example, adding customers deets for an ecom software to a CRM in Notion?
where do i find the discord he mentions? his discord? i literally neeeeed flylighter.
spanish dubbing please
I saw Dragon Ball reference, I clicked 👍
really have been loving UB 3.0 redesign has worked great for my workflow
Still no support for those of us not in the Googleverse. 😥
Please request Notion to add some kind of sound or "ding" for mobile devices notifications.
But still no e2e and with softwares like Anytype being a thing. I'm stressed that 2025 will be my last year with notion. My whole life is on it and moving seems stressful
Need to integrate Notion ai into custom formulas so we can tell ai what we want to accomplish and it helps us
Thank you very much for this. I picked up a few nuggets that I missed along the way. Huge thank you for the notion-helper library. I just finished my first NodeJS app to integrate with Notion and debugging the JSON for queries and such was the worst part. I wish I had found this a couple weeks ago. Now I'm going to make my future self happier by incorporating your library into my existing code. Thank you!
Is there a way to two-way sync my notion calendar & my outlook calendar?
Yet there's still no option for a check mark on the left side of a task
Also ask Notion to undo the change they made to Layouts 3 weeks ago. The side panel used to remember how you left it. Now it doesn't, which is crippling when making templates for people who aren't Notion gurus, as there are 3 different ways to open it, 4 ways to close it, and 3 different descriptions of what it is. They really need to roll that back.
10:10 look at this …graaaaph ☠😂
Loooooooooved the button feature. I am going to use it a lot. Thank you!! 😍
Them DBZ references 😂
Bro needs to cosplay as Jayce from Arcane the resemblance is uncanny
YOU ARE THE REASON I'M STICKING WITH NOTION!! Love your videos/tutorials so much because YOU GET TO THE FREAKIN' POINT! Thank you 🙂 I'm an app junkie so I'm in seventh heaven right now!!!🤤
I'm cackling at the Osha-compliant check boxes 😂
"Look at this Graph" killed me 😂
Thomas, one more question for you! I'm trying to create a multi-part automation but having some issues. Wanted your opinion on this.
Automation 1:
When 'Recent Communication' field is edited, 'Follow up date' field is marked as 3 weeks from today (I used a formula for this). The automation works fine!
Automation 2:
When 'status' field contains 'Texted prospect', Set 'Recent Communication' to 'Date Triggered'. This automation, on it's own, also works fine!
So in theory, all I have to do is edit the the status field to 'texted prospected' and this should trigger automation 2, which should then trigger automation 1. But automation 1 does not trigger. It's like one automation cannot trigger the next one, even if the rules say it should. Would you mind giving me your take on this?
I wish I could use notion calendar but my workplace uses outlook which kinda sucks for me.
I'd like to ask if any possible that sync task card status when creating a new merge request on gitlab
Notion might have killed it in 2024, but Thomas Frank ATE
(am I Gen Z-ing correctly?)
I wish calendar would do a year view, running down the page, so I can get an overview of my year. No online calendars seem to do this.
Layout should be dependent on template and not on database
How can I link two separate Databases to one calendar view. I have not been able to figure it out.
Crushed it as usual! What web browser are you using in this?
Looking into the Pinning of tabs I do not see that right mouse click option. When I submitted this missing feature issue to support I got a response that said pinning tabs is not an available feature. Anybody else able to see the Pin Tab choice on the right mouse click dialog box?
“That’s disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourself” took me out. 😂
Love this breakdown!