You're reading from Enhancing Productivity with Notion Save time on projects by supercharging your productivity with Notion's powerful features and templates

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803232089

Length 312 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Notion

Concepts

Project Management

Author (1):

Danny Hatcher

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Settings and Structure

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the Application FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Workspace Navigation, Sharing, and Appearance

4. Chapter 3: Templates, Imports, Account Settings, and Workspace Settings

5. Chapter 4: All the Building Blocks

6. Section 2: Database Options, Features, and Functions

7. Chapter 5: All the Basic Database Properties

8. Chapter 6: Database Views

9. Chapter 7: Database Features and Functions

10. Chapter 8: Basic Formula Functions

11. Chapter 9: Advanced Formula Combinations

12. Section 3: Creating Advanced Workflows

13. Chapter 10: Creating an Action Management Contextual Dashboard and Workflow

14. Chapter 11: Using API Integration and Add-on Options

15. Chapter 12: Note Taking, Knowledge Management, and a Wiki Example

16. Chapter 13: Other Example Use Cases

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

API integration examples

In this section, we will go through an integration example using Automate.io, between Google Calendar and Notion, and a Typeform integration with Notion. These are two of the most common integration uses and will give you some practical use cases for when and how the API can be used.

The Notion and Google Calendar integration

Just like at the beginning of this chapter, you will need to set up the bot in Automate.io, which permits you to use your Google Calendar account and your Notion account.

Once permission has been granted, we need to add a trigger and an action. In this example, we will use adding a Google Calendar event as the trigger and adding a database item as the action. This bot aims to create a page in a Notion database when an event is added to a specific Google Calendar trigger.

As you can see in Figure 11.13, there is one required field in the Google Calendar trigger section and one required field for the Notion database action section...