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From commas to multi-select

Keeping with the theme of select properties: have you ever had to input a huge list of multi-select elements?

I have, multiple times. What a pain.

Notion multi-select tags
Too many tags

Filling out everything by hand can be SUPER time-consuming. Luckily, there is an easier way that you may not have heard of before 👀

  1. Add a text property to your Notion database
  2. Input all your select elements (in my case Tags), separated by commas
  3. Edit the property: change from text to multi-select

Then… magic 🪄

Notion text to multi-select

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Notion text to multi-select as tags

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