Home & My tasks

Your Home tab allows you to:

• View your recently visited pages.

• Use and create shortcuts.

• Connect your calendar to see your upcoming events.

• See all of your tasks.

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Shortcuts help you quickly take actions from Home.

To create a shortcut in Home:

1. Go to Home. Under Shortcuts, select +.

2. Give your shortcut a name and an action. For example, you can have your button open your personal to-do list, or add a page to a specific database.

3. Add more actions if you’d like.

4. Select Done.

To edit a shortcut:

1. Go to Home.

2. Hover over a shortcut and select ••• → Edit.

3. Change the shortcut’s name or action.

4. Select Done.

To delete a shortcut:

1. Go to Home.

2. Hover over a shortcut and select ••• → Delete.

If you use Notion Calendar, you can see your schedule, join meetings, and access meeting docs and links using the Upcoming events widget in Home. If you haven’t already used Notion Calendar with Notion, you’re logged out of Notion Calendar, or you’re using the widget in a new or different Notion workspace, you can select Connect to Notion Calendar in the widget to set up your calendar.

To change what’s displayed in the Upcoming events widget, select ••• in your Upcoming events widget. From here, you can select:

• Calendars: Choose which calendars you want reflected in the widget. You can also have the widget reflect your Notion Calendar app.

• Include events: Choose how many days’ worth of events you want displayed. This can span from Today (1 day) to 1 week.

• All-day events: Toggle this on or off depending on whether you want all-day events to show in the widget.

• Events without participants: Toggle this on or off depending on whether you want events without participants, like a focus event or an out of office event, to show in the widget.

• Events without conferencing/location: Toggle this on or off depending on whether you want events that don’t have a conferencing link or a location to show in the widget.

My tasks shows all tasks assigned to you from all of the Task databases in your Notion workspace.

To see your assigned tasks in My tasks, you need to make sure that the databases containing those tasks are Notion Task databases. A task database in Notion is a type of database that requires a status, assignee, and due date property to help you track the work that you need to get done. Learn how to create a task database or turn an existing database into a task database here →

You can adjust what tasks you see in the My tasks widget by hovering over the widget and selecting •••. You can choose your preferred layout, filter and sort your tasks, or adjust which task properties you want the widget to show.

You can add a new task to any of your existing Task databases directly from the My tasks widget in Home. To do this, select New task at the top right of the widget. Choose the destination task database, then fill in the information for your task.

If you don’t want to see My tasks in Home, hover over the My tasks widget in Home and select ••• → Hide from home.

Hover over the My tasks widget in Home and select Open as full page to dive deeper into your tasks. From here, you can favorite the page, adjust the layout of your tasks, create a new task, and more.

To undo a Task database:

1. Select ••• at the top right of the database.

2. Select ••• next to This is a task database → Undo task database → Remove.

You can pin a database of your choice to Home for easy access. To do this:

1. In Home, find the database view widget and select Select database.

2. Search for and select your desired database.

By default, the database will populate in Home with a list view. To change this, select ••• on your custom database widget → Layout and pick the layout you want.

You can filter and sort your database items directly from inside the widget. You also have the ability to create a new view of that database by opening the dropdown next to the current view and selecting Add view. From there, you can select the same database or select a new one.

If you want to change the database displayed in Home:

1. Select ••• in your database views widget → Source.

2. Search for and select your new database.

To change the nickname that is shown in the greeting at the top of Home, click your name and enter a new one. Hit enter or click out of the text field to set your new nickname.

Adjust which page you want to see when you start Notion. Select ••• at the top right of Home → Change default page. Then choose Home, Last visited page, or Top page in sidebar.

To adjust which widgets you want to see in Home, select ••• at the top right of Home → Show/hide widgets. You can show or hide the Greeting, Upcoming Events, My Tasks, and Database Views.

If you want new tabs in your desktop app to open Home, open your desktop app and:

1. Go to Settings in your sidebar → Preferences.

2. Open the dropdown next to Default page and choose Home.

3. Open the dropdown next to On Start up and choose Your default page.

4. Toggle off New Tab Search. Once this setting is turned off, the desktop app will open new tabs with the default page specified in your On startup setting.