Similarly, it is easy to create beautiful pages. You can select any existing templates from a handful of options for Personal, Student, Design, Marketing, and more. You can even make personal edits to them if you wish to move some elements around. However, if you can’t find the one that fits your style, you can even create a new one from scratch. So, let’s swiftly move on to learn how to make a template on Notion, along with additional tips.
What is a Template Block?
The Template block is a fairly new addition to Notion. It’s easy to get it quite misunderstood with a Page similar to the existing Template options. To create an entirely new document or page, you can click on the + icon along with ‘Add a page’ from the left sidebar. You can add any content to it as you wish. However, you can’t consider it as a template as you can only move around the blocks individually. Meanwhile, a template is a format with a collection of put-together blocks you can create, duplicate, and move around to various documents. In this way, you’ll save time trying to create the same blocks over and over. For instance, if we need to make a monthly habit tracker, we can just create one template and then easily use it again for the following months.
How to Make a Template on Notion?
The sky is indeed the limit with templates. You can get creative with it, and it’s seamless to make with a few clicks. Here are the steps on how you can do so: We’re done here, but you can make your template as short or long or complex as you prefer. Also, feel free to add more fun blocks, like images, embeds, and more. Your template will remain saved with a + logo next to it. When you click on it, your template will appear, and you can start using it.
How to Turn a Page into a Template?
A page has a slightly different format than a template. Since you can only copy and paste blocks to the template, you’ll miss out on the page icon, title, and cover since they’re not blocks. But, if you like the design of an existing page, you can still copy all the content and paste it into a new template without losing the format. Here’s how you can do so: