If you had asked me what the next property shipped by Notion would be, I would have confidently said it would be a "Location" property for addresses, countries, and so on. However, it turns out that I was completely wrong!

Last week, the Notion team released a new property: IDs! This makes sense for a databases-powered software. IDs can be used to reference database items more efficiently. For example, let's consider a simple business use-case: invoices. You can add an ID property to your database with the prefix you usually use for your invoices. In my case, it's "RQ" (for Rames Quinerie). This is what it could look like:

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Note that the "ID" property is grayed out and cannot be modified. Like the "Last edited time" or "Created by" properties, it is auto-generated by Notion.

To access the ID property, click the + button to add a new property and go to the very end of the list.

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