Notion’s New RECURRING Templates (and 5 more features you missed!)

Notion’s biggest new workflow shift is Recurring Templates: a scheduling feature that automatically generates new database pages from a template on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly cadence. Instead of manually creating rows for recurring work—like standups, meeting notes, or daily journals—users can turn a template into a repeatable generator that creates the next instance at a chosen time and time zone, with weekday-only scheduling available for weekly repeats.

The practical example is a meeting-notes database where daily standup entries are created automatically. In the template editor, a new “repeat” option lets users switch repetition on and define the schedule. For weekly repeats, Notion supports selecting specific weekdays (Monday through Friday) while leaving weekends off, plus choosing the start day and the exact time the page should appear. After saving, the next scheduled standup page is generated shortly afterward, complete with the template’s predefined sections and properties—such as action items, process improvements, meeting minutes, and tags that get applied automatically.

Just as important as what Recurring Templates does: it is not “Recurring Tasks.” The feature doesn’t support dynamic, relative dates inside the template (for example, setting a due date “two days after creation”), and it doesn’t reveal future instances ahead of time in calendar-style views. Instances only appear on their scheduled dates. Notion positions it as a building block toward deeper automation, but for now it’s primarily a mechanism for scheduled page creation inside Notion.

That limitation still unlocks a more robust habit-tracking pattern. By scheduling a daily journal template, users can ensure a new journal entry exists every day—even if they forget to create it manually. With each entry containing checkbox properties for habits (like “drink two glasses of water”), the system produces an unbroken daily record. That continuity then enables stronger reporting with relations and rollups across days, something that’s harder when entries are created inconsistently.

Alongside Recurring Templates, the update includes five smaller “quality of life” features. Pages with multiple columns can now stretch column widths beyond the normal limits of non–full-width pages, making side-by-side layouts more flexible. Database relations can be displayed in new layouts—like an “As Page section” or “As minimal” style—so related content can sit more inline and even behave like a compact back-link style element. Bulk editing gets easier with a drag handle that applies a property change to multiple rows at once, plus keyboard shortcuts for selecting multiple rows and duplicating values.

Sharing adds an expiration control via “Link Expires,” letting published links (including web-published templates) automatically stop working after a set window such as an hour, day, week, or a chosen date. Finally, board views gain faster editing: a pencil icon allows quick changes to properties shown on the board directly from the view, with the option to open a side panel for deeper edits when needed. Together, these changes push Notion further toward automated, repeatable workflows while tightening day-to-day editing and sharing.