buttons buttons buttons notion of it introduced a brand new feature and you've guessed it it is
called buttons it allows you to essentially create automated setups with one click of a button today
we're going to overview what buttons are how they work and talk a little bit at the end at
how this could link up with their AI strategy I'm very excited and let's dive into today's video so
welcome folks my name is Francesca galessio I'm very excited to be taking you through
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you can essentially get started with buttons is pressing the slash command and typing in
buttons I did it wrong already button there we go so you can see that what they're describing it as
is running custom automations with one click and what's cool is you can sort of cascade
actions so for example if I pressed a button uh if I press this button let's say create meeting notes
and what it can do is set it up so it adds a page to let's type in meetings
and I could change the property so for example I could add it as today
and I could add it as a type which could be a brief
and finally if I wanted to I could have it the topic as overview meeting so let me just show
you that as a simple structure you can change the icon as well if you do want to and if I press done
so here we go press that button bang it's done it let's go and open that page
everything's there select magic sort of like the old template button to some extent and the old
template button is not there anymore it's this is just an enhanced version of it but this creates
steps for you and goes a lot further than that previous template button that template button was
not great compared to this if I go to add another step
it can insert blocks below or above the button um by saying I don't know I I I think whenever these
things comes out people come up with wild examples of them but you could say uh meeting created
um and just just keep it a meeting created uh like that just as an example so if I were to
press create meeting it's created a page but it's added that below so that's pretty neat
in terms of like you could have it as a little log for you and your team to update new features
or like things like that so you can also open a specific page if that's something you want so
that's just probably something more structurally but you can edit pages in so for example if I
wanted to ah new pages new page that's added Okay so let me try and work out what this means
let me get rid of this okay so I think I understand that so here we go so one of the
things you can do is if you set up that button you can not only add it to a page into a database and
edit the properties but you can also edit what page you've just added or other details another
page for example like sponsorships and you can update that one with relevant properties but you
can also add certain people that have clicked on the button so it's really cool because the neat
thing about that is say you created a meeting and automatically you wanted to update your
sponsorship or something like that or a client or a CMS that that person clicked to know that person
interacted and keeping it updated that's something you can do quite easily so that's a very neat
function I probably wouldn't link it to that but you could for example have it so that the status
moves from contract issued or something like that and it just it has that knock-on effect now one
thing you can do up here is move the certain uh the structure of this but you can do that just
by doing that and the sort of other elements that I talked about is the inserting blocks
but opening Pages you can show confirmation okay so that's quite cool if you have a team set up
then you can have it so that if you click that button you can be like are you sure you want to
do this which is great because some people might might not know what happens and you can actually
explain it to them here so one thing you can do is be like um this will create a new page in sponsors
and meetings and then you could go when I press that button Bang
it clear and it helps teams to do that so this is a really cool addition really does sort of take
new steps to Next Level I'm not somebody who really takes advantage of this but for those
who are going to find setups and automations this is going to be huge now the reason why
I think this is going to play into the bigger future and bigger picture of notion is I think
I've talked about this before the properties areas inside of notion are going to become the future
of AI for notion and I think this is also going to become that a newly refined feature for example if
it was like create meeting note and you uploaded some audio I don't know hypothetically uploaded a
file it could be able to just utilize the AI to automatically do multiple things for you in an
automation process but also start doing things for you in a background so this is a great little tee
off because you can not only right now set things up so that things are automatically pre-created
for you like let's say that meeting notes done you could then assign it so that the CMS is updated or
your CRM is updated and then it nudges somebody and updates that person so this is all very cool
initial process I'm using this terribly but I think the AI is going to become a big element
of this and I think in the future utilizing this function will become very well much more
common and much more sort of structured so I think this is just the starting point for buttons and
its elements in AI but a very interesting first step for notion so hopefully that'll give you an
interest in just first glance at it at least and let me know if you have any questions about it I
will continue to explore and see how other people are using it in this space thank you very much
folks and I look forward to seeing you in a future video and I'll see you all very soon cheerio
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