Automating workflows from any Notion page is now possible
Notion has been the leading productivity tool for long, with their new release of webhook support, the possibilities for Notion automation became a thing.
Via what Notion calls Webhook actions their users can now trigger automations from anywhere.
How does Notion Webhook Actions work?
When creating a page in Notion, you can choose to add, tables, buttons and many more blocks.
To begin, Webhook Actions is something you can attach to for example, a specific table column in notion.
Next you have to insert a webhook URL generated by a third party software, this could be Zapier or Make.
Once the baseline has been configured, the webhooks could be fired from Notion.
When or why would I use this Notion Automation ?
If we follow the example of using a specific column in a table or board as a trigger, this has many usecases.
Let’s pretend we use Notion for project coordination, we might want to send an e-mail to our external stakeholders with an update after certain landmarks.
We could configure our Notion board to have specific titles related to those landmarks, and as that customers card flows through the board, Notion could fire webhooks to Zapier.
As a result, Zapier would receive the event and run a flow to send an e-mail to the correct people stating that the project has reached a certain stage.
Ultimately this saves you time, drafting an e-mail, adding recipients and sending it.
Creativity is the enabler
Doing “Notion Automation”, or automation via Notion to trigger different workflows to save time is a new thing.
Above all, this will enable organizations to save time on repetitive tasks, maybe you are often posting on social media? Could you create a board in Notion to post the same content on multiple platforms at once?
Following that, another example could be if internal teams are working in siloed systems for customer support.
Notion could send a confirmation to the engineering team using JIRA when a new ticket in Notion was raised.
Conclusion
To sum up, the release of Notion Webhooks are great, it will enable organizations to automate and save time.
On the other hand, the entire technology stack also needs to be fairly modern to truly achieve automation.
If your org does not use Make or Zapier you will have to rely on other business applications to generate those needed webhook URLs.
