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Synced block for blogs

When I had my blog on Notion, I used a trick to keep all non-blog information easy to maintain and identical everywhere. Non-blog information includes items such as:

  • Newsletter CTA
  • "Find my work" message
  • Personal bio at the end of each blog post

The feature that I used, which is not the most commonly known, is called synced blocks. It can be used for anything you want. Here's how to implement it (same principle for every use cases):

  1. Create a template in your database.
  2. Add all the non-blog information to the template.
  3. For each section, add a synced block (type /synced).
  4. Drag and drop your information into each synced block. You can easily find synced blocks because they have a red outline when hovered over.

Notion synced block example

Updating the beginning message of all my blog posts used to be a time-consuming task. However, by creating a synced block, I only need to update it on one article, and all other articles are automatically updated as well. This trick has saved me a TON of time.

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