Relational Databases in Notion

It’s no coincidence that tables in Notion are called databases. That is because they actually are.

Today, we’re going to look at how to use them in oder to create complex relations.

Projects

Let’s start off by creating a list of projects. I’d like projects to have a Nameand a Start Date. In Notion the Name field is a required field that you get by default (sort of like an ID) so all we have to do is to create a Start Date property of type Date.

Teams

Projects will be owned by teams. Off course we could go ahead and add a new property to the Projects table but if you want to unleash to full power of Notion I’d strongly recommend that you create another table.

Now that you have the Teams table you can go ahead and link the two by creating a new property of type Relation, let’s call it Owner (from the Projects table and Projects from the other side.