How do I make my Notion Beautiful

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Beli Löw

Published:

September 11, 2024

Updated:

December 26, 2024

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The Art of Notion Aesthetics

Hey there! Notion isn't just about getting things done—it's also about making your workspace look awesome. A beautiful Notion setup can boost your creativity and make organizing fun.

In this guide, we'll show you how to create an eye-catching Notion workspace, no matter your skill level. We'll cover cool tricks with icons, covers, blocks, and columns to transform your digital space into something you'll love using.

Ready to dive in? Let's make your Notion both super organized and visually stunning!

The Art of Notion Aesthetics
1. Noticons for Notion: The Top Choice for Aesthetic and Functional Icons
2. Notion Blocks Explained: Create, Customize, and Organize Your Content:
3. Make Information Pop in Notion with Styled Callouts:
4. Organize Notion Pages with Columns for a Professional Look:
5. Add Interactive Buttons in Notion to Simplify and Beautify Your Pages:
6. Organize Your Notion Pages Visually Using Toggles and Nested Content:
7. Make Your Notion Pages Stand Out with Stunning Icon Designs:
8. How to Use Images in Notion to Create Visually Appealing Pages:
9. Make Your Notion Databases Visually Appealing and Easy to Use:
10. Use Code Format in Notion to Display Snippets with Style and Clarity:

1. Noticons for Notion: The Top Choice for Aesthetic and Functional Icons

Have you heard about Noticons? If not, you're missing out! 😅 Don't worry, though—we're here to help you elevate your Notion pages. With Noticons created by Notioneers, you can find icons, cover images, and cards to style up your Notion space.

How to use Noticons:

Go to our Noticons website—the best part? It's totally free! https://www.noticons.com/
Search for the perfect card, icon, cover and color to style your template.
Copy the link by simply clicking on it.
Paste the link and that's it—easy, fun, and aesthetic!

2. Notion Blocks Explained: Create, Customize, and Organize Your Content:

They're super versatile, holding everything from text and images to lists and tables. You can easily move them around and customize them.

Here you can see the different sizes of headings, text and colored text you can play around with.

Tables: the easy way to organize information—don't make them plain and boring! Add some color to make them visually appealing.

Quotes: These help emphasize important text or inspirational messages. You can style quotes with different formats, colors, and sizes to create appealing highlights.

3. Make Information Pop in Notion with Styled Callouts:

These blocks are perfect for highlighting key info or adding a visual pop to your content. They usually come with an icon, a cool background color, and some text. Use them to make important points stand out, flag warnings, or share quick tips that your readers shouldn't miss.

Here you have some examples, make them colorfull, with or without icons and even add columns inside! 🤩

How to create a pretty Callout:

4. Organize Notion Pages with Columns for a Professional Look:

Perfect for comparing data, organizing info horizontally, and adding visual flair to your Notion setup.

Notioneers Tip:

Create columns by dragging a block and dropping it to the right of another block. Look for the vertical blue line to appear, indicating where the new column will be placed- quick and easy! 😜

5. Add Interactive Buttons in Notion to Simplify and Beautify Your Pages:

We love buttons because they're functional and save us time. But remember, they don't have to be just black and white! Play around and add some color, emojis, or whatever matches your style!

Why making them plain and boring, when you have the option of color and emojis!

6. Organize Your Notion Pages Visually Using Toggles and Nested Content:

Toggles are a samrt wat to organize your content hink of.Just click to expand and see what's inside, click again to tuck it away. Perfect for keeping your workspace clean and professional without sacrificing accessibility!

These are the different types of toggles you can add.

You can also add toggles with the different size of headings.

7. Make Your Notion Pages Stand Out with Stunning Icon Designs:

We'll show you three different ways to style your page icons—it's quick and easy to add your personal touch.

Notioneers Tip:

Go to our Noticons website.
Search for the perfect icon, we have thounsand of options and colors.
Click on the icon to copy the link and go to your Notion page.
Click on add icon and select upload
Paste the link and that’s it! 🥳

8. How to Use Images in Notion to Create Visually Appealing Pages:

Images are very versatile in Notion. You can create beautiful mosaics, add them to gallery views and databases, and the best part is that you can place them wherever you want—they're easy to move around and resize.

Here’s one of the many ways yopu can use images in Notion. 🥳

9. Make Your Notion Databases Visually Appealing and Easy to Use:

Databases are the best way to collect and organize information. They can be displayed as boards, tables, calendars, lists, galleries—the options are endless! Are you wondering if they can be stylish? Of course they can! In this article, we explain how to add emojis anywhere, including to your select properties.

Another appealling way to style your databases 🤩

This is gallery view 🙂‍↕️

How to add a Card Image:

Go to our Noticons website.
Search for the perfect card, we have thounsand of options and colors.
Click on the icon to copy the link and go to your Notion page.
Create a File & Media property.
Set the galery view to use File & Media property as a preview image inted of “show page content”.
Paste the link and that’s it! 🥳

Notioneers Tip:

Want to learn how to add description to properties?Here’s a tutorial for you How to add description to select and status properties. 😌

10. Use Code Format in Notion to Display Snippets with Style and Clarity:

This format creates monospace text, perfect for displaying short code snippets within regular text.

How to add Noticons:

Go to our Noticons website.
Search for the perfect card, we have thounsand of options and colors.
Click on the icon to copy the link and go to your Notion page.
Create a File & Media property.
Set the galery view to use File & Media property as a preview image inted of “show page content”.
Paste the link and that’s it! 🥳

Beli Löw

Founder, Senior Notion Consultant

Beli is an IT project manager, tool enthusiast, entrepreneur and has organized his whole life with Notion. His news sources are release notes from tools. There is (almost) no feature or shortcut that he does not know.