
10 Notion “Best Practices” That Are Actually Terrible Advice
In this article, I’m breaking down 10 of the most popular Notion “best practices” that are actually terrible advice and showing you what to do instead.
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In this article, I’m breaking down 10 of the most popular Notion “best practices” that are actually terrible advice and showing you what to do instead.

Notion AI Agents are autonomous workflows that run inside your Notion workspace. You describe the job, set a schedule or trigger, give the agent access to the databases and tools it needs, and it executes.

What matters for a business is whether the AI can work on your actual data, answer questions from your actual workspace, and handle operational tasks that currently require a person. The answer, as of 2026, is meaningfully yes.

Notion automations work on a trigger-action model: when something happens in a database, one or more actions run automatically.

Notion gives you 20+ property types. Most people use four. The ones they’re missing are the ones that make the difference between a database that stores information and one that works for you.

In Notion, a page is the universal container. Everything in Notion lives inside a page: text, databases, images, checklists, embedded content, and other pages. A database is a page. A wiki is a page. A client record is a page. An entire project hub with ten linked databases is a page.