Notion widgets are a handy feature, but good ones can be difficult to find. The right widgets don’t just look cool; they pull in dynamic info, automatic nudges, and make your dashboard feel alive again.
7 Notion Streak
As useful as a tool Notion is, it relies on you to keep the app open and constantly check your goals and tasks. The Notion Streak widget gives you a handy streak right in Notion. It's not a lot, but it does add that extra motivation you need in the morning to open Notion and look at everything you need to do.
The widget tracks how many days in a row you have been working on a Notion page. To keep a streak going, you need to open said page at least once a day, every day. It's also highly customizable, but you need a Potion account to customize or create your streak widget.
6 Animedoro
Using a Pomodoro timer is a great way of ensuring productivity in quick bursts without burning yourself out. However, most Pomodoro timers you'll come across are boring to look at, with most just having a countdown timer on a light background.
Animedoro takes a twist on this by introducing Anime-themed timers right on your Notion page. Once you've embedded the widget into your Notion page, you can select from eight anime-based themes, adjust your work and watch timers, and choose from four sound effects for a post-alarm bell.
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The timer is also fully resizeable, so you can have a nice big Pomodoro timer going right at the top of your page and looking good while doing so. If you need more customization, you might just need to build your own Pomodoro timer app using Python.
5 Life Calendar
The Life Calendar, like the Notion streak widget, is more informative than interactive. All you need to do is enter your date of birth and any significant events you want, and the website will spit out a grid of squares with black squares for the weeks that have passed away and white ones for the weeks yet to come.
Of course, this isn't accurate. The widget grid displays all the weeks that make up a 90-year-old's life. The widget's description explains best why it's useful.
Technically speaking, this digital calendar, cannot be cached. Exactly as your life. Every time you will have a look at this image inside a Notion page, it will be a distinct and exact representation of the weeks you already lived, the weeks to come and, hopefully, it will remind you that time is a gift. And you can make great things with it.
4 Kairo Notion Blocks
Kairo Notion Blocks are small widgets that you can build for free on their website and then embed to your Notion page. The blocks can be customized with an icon, colors, dark or light mode, and properties based on what block you've selected. I find them really handy for timers and habit-tracking.
They don't require an account to make, and you can quickly set up a nicely animated timer, habit, countdown, or progress block with a few clicks. If you need more customization, you can get Kairo's Gold plan for $3.75 a month or $45 per year. This gives you access to 12 block types, a layout and grid editor, cloud data storage, and more. My Notion subscription pays for itself; with these blocks, it does even more.
3 Spotify
Switching back and forth between two different programs can be annoying, especially if you're on a short deadline. The Spotify widget takes this hassle out by letting you embed any song, album, artist, playlist, podcast, or episode on your Notion page. You don't even have to use a third-party website for this. Just head over to the music you want to put in Notion, copy its embed code, and paste it in Notion's Embed block.
This isn't as useful as switching to the Spotify app, and if you wanna switch playlists or start a new one, you're going to have to go back to the Spotify app. However, for those who prefer listening to their own playlists, this widget is a massive convenience.
2 Calculator
Notion can help you calculate things, but having a good old calculator handy never hurts anyone. If you often crunch quick numbers or don't want to create databases every time you need a column's sum, this widget will be useful.
Other than the usual arithmetic functions, you also get basic trigonometry, your choice of angles in degrees or radians, and log, among others. This widget won't run complicated expressions but is perfectly fine for most of your everyday calculating needs.
1 Buttons
Buttons are part of Indify's suite of Notion widgets. These customizable buttons can act as quick shortcuts to a website, email address, phone number, or another Notion page. Make sure to enter the link in the correct format, and you should be good to go.
You can customize the button's icon and text, change its color and hover highlight color, and adjust size, corner rounding, layout, and alignment. The site has a handy color picker that shows how colors look in Notion's dark and light modes. You can configure multiple buttons at once, and there's a preview at the bottom to make sure your buttons look right.
Once embedded in Notion, the button uses the default app for a particular task on your PC. For example, clicking a button linked to a website will open the website in your PC's default browser, and so on.
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Whether you're looking to up your productivity or organize your life in Notion, these widgets will come in handy. The next time you open Notion, you might find your new favorite tool hiding in plain sight.