Notion's new database automations + 3 ways Selena Gomez would use them

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✨ 3 ways Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty would use Notion's new database automations ✨

Does Selena Gomez have Big Notion Energy? You mean owner of earned more than $70M beauty brand Rare Beauty? Absolutely. Big Notion Energy describes a mindset or approach to life that emphasises the power of positive thinking, creativity, and the pursuit of big ideas. Her team at Rare Beauty are objectively, killing it. I can’t help but think what their werkflows are like, or even if they use Notion 👀.

Anyways, as a Notion Consultant and in my past life project managing Shopify websites, I’ve worked with quite a few retail brands. In honour of Notion’s brand new database automations, here are a few ways even a multi-million dollar brand like Rare Beauty can save hours of their life using them. If you’d like to try these out for yourself, you’ll of course need to sign up to Notion (#NotionPartner), however, flagging that you will need to be on the paid plan ($10/mth).

#1 Create a task flow for archived products

aka when a certain condition is met in my existing dataset, trigger a new entry elsewhere

This one goes without saying! Talk about having everything on auto-pilot. How many times do you manually have to remind yourself to set X task when a certain condition is activated?

No more! Also, notice how in the example above, products and tasks are connected together, and in the automation menu, the ‘this page’ constant means that the task automatically connects itself to the correct product - clever!

#2 Create ‘New Product Meetings’ when a new product is added

aka when a new entry is added to my dataset, trigger a new entry elsewhere

Similarly, adding a new entry to your dataset, like adding a new project, or this instance a new product, could trigger multiple set-up actions elsewhere. In this example, a new product has triggered the creation of a ‘New Product meeting’. You could equally trigger a few set-up tasks, like above.

#3 Add an automatic date when tasks are complete

aka automatically store the date when a certain condition is met in my existing dataset

This is actually solving a popular request! Clients have asked me multiple times if they can automatically record when tasks are completed, and now they can! This could be great in the workplace especially if you want to track your performance, so that you could have something to look back at during your performance reviews. “In August, I completed X,Y,Z”.

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