I’m making this tutorial because it took me a long time to get this working, even when following other tutorials.

My hope is that it will help you to understand what’s going on in each step and you’ll then be able to modify it to make it work for you.

By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to add a simple task to your Notion database from a shortcut, or from Siri.

<aside> 💡 If you don’t want to spend hours creating the shortcut yourself, you can install my advanced shortcut from GumRoad and be up and running in just a few minutes.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtRbqGE7nk

The basic tutorial will show you how to:-

• connect to the API
• present an input field in Shortcuts to prompt for input
• Use that input for the title of a database item

The advanced version on GumRoad has the following extra functionality:-

• Option to enter text into a text field
• Allows you to specify any number of select fields, number fields, date fields
• These can be automatically filled with values you specify, or you can be presented with pickers to choose options at runtime
• It takes everything after the first line of input and adds it to the page body.
• If sharing a URL it’ll put it in a URL field
• If sharing text from a Safari web page, put the URL in the URL field, and the shared text in the page body
• Option to open a URL (eg Notion dashboard) when done.
• Option to open the created page when done (useful for quickly adding extra info, e.g a photo)