We live in a world where you will find an ocean of knowledge, so it’s pretty harsh to manage things in one place. Life probably doesn’t get on the desired track if he/she probably lacks in organizing their work on the optimum level. Here, Notion offers you just more than organizing your work under one roof.

Mind you, there are no limitations in creating content in Notion. This allows its users to make the content more enhanced by those features and functions which Notion offers. Also, to organize your content on the next level, you can create a folder in Notion. Not only that, you can create subfolders, databases, open the CSV files into Notion, and more.

In this article, we will show you How To Create A Folder In Notion. So makes sure to follow the useful article till the end that we have managed to provide you. Without further ado, let’s get started.

Also read: How to Cre­ate a Cus­tom Tem­plate in Notion (Step by Step Guide)

How To Create A Folder In Notion

Here, folders are referred to as pages, and subfolders are referred to as subpages in Notion. For example, you can easily create a folder on any device and a new folder inside them, just like that you can create pages inside the particular pages in Notion.

Let’s make folder referred to as pages in Notion.

Step 1: Visit Notion app on your desktop.

Step 1: Click on the ‘New Page‘, on the bottom of the left sidebar.

Step 3: A new page will be open, you need to give a title to the page.

Step 4: Now, press Enter on your keyboard. And your page is all set for customization.

How to Create a Subfolder in Notion

There are multiple ways to create create a subpage (subfolder) in Notion.

Steps to Creating Subfolder From the Current Page

Step 1: Open the page that we have created above. (You can use any page to create subpage in Notion)

Step 2: Click on the page to start writing.

Step 3: Type ‘/’ command key present on your keyboard.

Step 4: Here, type ‘/page’ to summon a new subpage (subfolder) in Notion.

Step 5: Provide a name for your new subpage.

That’s all with creating a subfolder from the current page in Notion.

Steps to Creating Subfolder From the Side Panel

Step 1: Go to the left sidebar where you can find the list of the pages.

Step 2: Hover over the page (folder) that we have created recently in order to add the subpage(subfolder).

Step 3: Click on the ‘+’ button next to the page that you have chosen.

Step 4: Now, a subpage will be created inside your selected page.

Name the subpage (subfolder), and save it after making the changes.

How to Create a List in Notion

By creating a list in Notion, you can use it as a database. It is simple to create a list block, so follow the steps mentioned below:

Step 1: Open Notion app on your desktop.

Step 2: Click on ‘New page’ at the bottom of the left sidebar (You can also select the page that you have already created earlier).

Step 3: Now, type ‘/list’ to summon list options on the selected page.

Step 4: Option box will appear asking you to choose between ‘List-Inline’ or ‘List-Full Page’. Here, we have selected the List-Full Page, from the Database section.

Step 5: Name the list block.

Step 6: Select Page 1 from the existing page lists. It has some properties such as Created and Tags.

Step 7: You can easily assign your page with the new properties. There are some existing properties such as text, numbers, select, multi-select, person, date, files, and more.

How to create a Database in Notion

To create databases , users needs to do the following:

Step 1: Open Notion app in your desktop.

Step 2: Click on the ‘New Page‘, on the bottom of the left sidebar.

Step 3: Now, a number of options will be available once you’ve created a new page. You will get to see more options under the DATABASE section that contains other options such as Tables, Boards, List, Calendars, galleries, Timeline. Here, we have selected a Table for demonstration.

Step 4: A table will appear with three columns including:

• Name – To enter your database items.
• Tags – To describe the elements or items

1. Suppose if you want to edit the column properties by clicking on its name and name of your choice. Here, we have named it ‘Salary’ to set salary property for your database.
2. Now, you can choose the property from the drop-down menu for the ‘Salary’ column, we are choosing here ‘Date’ property to mentioned the salary date.

Likewise, you can create a database. Also, you can enhance the database the way you want by selecting the ‘+Add a view’ button located ta the left side corner, where you can choose between tables, boards, timeline, calendar, list, or gallery.

How to Import CSV Files Into Notion

You can make available every data available at one place in Notion. Here’s how to import CSV files into Notion.

Step 1: Select to click on the ‘Import’ button located at the left sidebar in Notion.

Step 2: A window will appear, from here you can choose the file that you want to import, select ‘CSV’.

Step 3: Now, just upload the required file from the desktop.

How to Add Text to a Notion Page

Creating a page in Notion is simple.

Step 1: Click on ‘New Page’ button at the bottom of the sidebar in Notion.

Step 2: Just start typing on the page.

You can summon list of option by typing ‘/’ command on your keyboard on anywhere on the page.

How to Create a Link to Another Page in Notion?

Method 1

Step 1: Open a page in Notion that you want to link to another page.

Step 2: Write something on the page and press the bracket button twice on the keyboard ([[).

Step 3: Just type the link of the page that you want to simply link.

Step 4: Select to click on that page from the dropdown menu.

Method 1

Step 1: Just press ‘+’ sign and type the name of the page that you want to link.

Step 2: Click on the page that you want to link via dropdown menu.

Conclusion

You can do whatever you want when it comes to creating content in Notion. All these methods and techniques were not possible in the initial computer days, but it seems easy now on Notion. I mean you can create a database to tables, or linking the pages to creating the subpages everything is available under one roof.

The notion does hold the capabilities to replace other apps that don’t even provide the desired things while creating content. So it is advised to use Notion on the optimum level.

That’s it for now, hope this helps! If you have any quarries, you can ask them in the comment section below.

Read next: Does Notion Save Automatically?