Enhanced Task Notifications

As much as I love Notion, I’ve found its default task notifications a smidge lacking from the get-go. My biggest issue: If you complete a task early and fail to disable the task reminder, Notion still sends you a notification.

I would complete a task a few days before its due date, but I rarely remembered to turn off the reminder. The false positives drove me nuts. I'd ask myself, "Wait, didn't I already complete that task four days ago? Am I going senile?"

Several attempts to solve this problem bore no fruit, but I'm notoriously and unapologetically stubborn.

Last week's Make With Notion conference was awesome. It included a video testimonial from yours truly. During one segment, I saw an opportunity to do finally fix the thorny notification issue for good. As it turned out, I was right. This simple template enhances Notion’s default notifications in several useful ways. Specifically, it:

• Eliminates superfluous notifications on completed tasks. You no longer have to worry about whether or not you remembered to uncheck task reminders when you complete a task before its due date. (If I had a nickel for every false positive I received, I’d have more than a few bucks, but I digress.) In fact, with this template, you may no longer find a need for the Remind box at all.
• By default, alerts the task owner if the task remains uncompleted seven days past its due date.
• By default, alerts the task owner if the task remains uncompleted a month past its due date.

Of course, you can easily customize the template as needed. Anyone with a modicum of Notion skill can replicate this functionality in an existing Notion task or project database.