
What is Notion?<\/h2>
Notion is an extremely powerful tool for both business and personal use.\u00a0<\/strong>If you're struggling to find a great tool to aggregate many of your workflows, look no further.\u00a0<\/p> Notion provides an easy to use experience with intuitive controls and the ability to use its simple capabilities with little to no technical background. If you can use a word processor, spreadsheets, powerpoint, etc, you're more than qualified to dip your toe in the Notion app waters.<\/p> Need to scale up to the most complex of workflows? Notion's ability to connect and synchronize content across the \"mini\" databases it creates provides amazing power for customizations.<\/p> One of the less intuitive features of Notion are templates<\/strong>. It's a bit difficult to find the templates you're looking for. The search function in Notion's template page is a bit buried and it's not obvious how to find the Notion templates sourced by the company vs. those created by 3rd party contributors.<\/p> To get to Templates from your Notion instance, click the\u00a0Templates<\/strong> button in the bottom left of your main window:<\/p> Once there, you can look at the most used templates in the Notion portfolio. Or, alternatively, you can browse all the templates available by clicking the non-obvious \"Browse more templates\" button at the bottom:<\/p> Alternatively, you can browse directly<\/a> to the Notion Templates Page and search their entire library.<\/p> There are any number of walkthroughs for how to create a Notion template from scratch. But the one thing that is extremely difficult to find is how do you create a Notion template from an already existing page. A quick search on Google reveals Quora questions<\/a>, Reddit posts<\/a>, more Reddit posts,<\/a> and how-to videos<\/a> at all levels of complexity.<\/p> We're here to show you the simplest way to take your existing page in Notion and create a button that automatically creates new instances of that existing page.<\/strong><\/p> Let's get started!<\/p> For this example, I will be using our Product Requirements Document template that we use at Sage<\/a> whenever we map out our plans for a new feature deployment. The template itself can be downloaded and added to your Notion instance from here<\/a>.<\/p> Here is what our page looks like:<\/p> Most people find it easiest to create a new page to house all their custom templates. For us, we've created a \"Templates\" page where we have all our template buttons.<\/p> To create the new Template button, you have two options:<\/p> It should look like this when you're finished. You can always click the template page<\/strong> to open it and edit any of the content in the template.<\/p> And that's it! You are finished and you now have a simple button like this one that can be used to create a new Notion page with all the content from your template. Click it and give it a shot. Note: With the most recent update (Dec 2021), you may get an \"Importing\" window and have Notion get stuck churning. However, if you go back to the page where the button is, you'll notice that your new page has been created from the source template still.<\/b><\/p>"},"elements":[],"widgetType":"text-editor"}],"isInner":false}],"isInner":false},{"id":"0c5c9b2","elType":"section","settings":[],"elements":[{"id":"4e4717c","elType":"column","settings":{"_column_size":100,"_inline_size":null},"elements":[{"id":"cc89e59","elType":"widget","settings":{"title":"Subscribe to more of our content for E-Mail updates!","header_size":"h6","align":"center"},"elements":[],"widgetType":"heading"}],"isInner":false}],"isInner":false},{"id":"e06370a","elType":"section","settings":[],"elements":[{"id":"3c2adca","elType":"column","settings":{"_column_size":100,"_inline_size":null},"elements":[{"id":"3623bdc","elType":"widget","settings":{"form_name":"Marketing Series","form_fields":[{"custom_id":"email","field_type":"email","required":"true","field_label":"Email","_id":"97f6dae"}],"button_size":"md","button_align":"center","step_next_label":"Next","step_previous_label":"Previous","button_text":"Keep me Informed!","selected_button_icon":{"value":"far fa-envelope","library":"fa-regular"},"button_icon_align":"right","button_icon_indent":{"unit":"px","size":10,"sizes":[]},"submit_actions":["mailchimp"],"email_to":"peter@thesageboard.com","email_subject":"New message from \"Sage Tech Advice\"","email_content":"[all-fields]","email_from":"email@thesageboard.com","email_from_name":"Sage Tech Advice","email_to_2":"peter@thesageboard.com","email_subject_2":"New message from \"Sage Tech Advice\"","email_content_2":"[all-fields]","email_from_2":"email@thesageboard.com","email_from_name_2":"Sage Tech Advice","email_reply_to_2":"peter@thesageboard.com","mailchimp_fields_map":[{"remote_id":"email","remote_label":"Email","remote_type":"email","remote_required":true,"local_id":"email","_id":"5856dfc"},{"remote_id":"MMERGE4","remote_label":"First Name","remote_type":"text","remote_required":false,"local_id":"name","_id":"b688815"},{"remote_id":"MMERGE5","remote_label":"Last Name","remote_type":"text","remote_required":false,"local_id":"field_ca33051","_id":"5a4c056"},{"remote_id":"UBDATE","remote_label":"Unbounce Submission Date","remote_type":"text","remote_required":false,"_id":"895a58c"},{"remote_id":"UBPAGEID","remote_label":"Unbounce Page ID","remote_type":"text","remote_required":false,"_id":"28cabbf"},{"remote_id":"UBVARIANT","remote_label":"Unbounce Page Variant","remote_type":"text","remote_required":false,"_id":"8143be4"}],"drip_fields_map":[],"activecampaign_fields_map":[],"getresponse_fields_map":[],"convertkit_fields_map":[],"mailerlite_fields_map":[],"success_message":"Thank you for signing up!","error_message":"An error occurred.","required_field_message":"This field is required.","invalid_message":"There's something wrong. 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About Notion Templates<\/h2>
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Creating a template from an existing Notion page<\/h2>
Step 1 - Create a new page or import your favorite template into Notion.<\/h3>
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Step 2 - Find a location for your new Template button and add the \"Template Button\" to this Page<\/h3>
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Step 3 - Add Template Title and Properties<\/h3>
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Step 4 - Drag Your Source Notion page into the Template Block Editor<\/h3>
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thanks for this.
Not working anymore 🙁
Thanks, Anonymous!
Just updated the blog to show that this is working even though it seems like it might get stuck churning. We’ve reached out to Notion to ask about the issue.
What about adding a new database template page from an existing page? This is what I’ve struggled with. I prefer to use the New/Template button in a database then have a template button outside of the database and dragging the new templated page to the database. Less friction.