# Connect Notion > Connect Notion and your automations can file tasks for you — a certificate about to expire, a monitor that went down, a domain coming up for renewal… Source: https://infranest.io/docs/connect-notion Last updated: 2026-10-26 --- Connect Notion so your automations can file tasks for you — a certificate about to expire, a monitor that went down, a domain coming up for renewal — straight into the database your team already works from. Later steps can comment on the task, move it to another status, or remove it. ## Overview - Lets automations create, comment on, and update Notion tasks automatically. - Works with any database in your Notion workspace, using whatever columns you've already set up. - Built for anyone setting up automations, even without technical experience. > [!NOTE] > Notion works differently from most integrations: a connection can only see the pages and databases you explicitly share with it. A connection with nothing shared can reach nothing at all. Skipping this step is the most common reason a Notion automation fails — see **Share the database with the connection** below. ## Connect your workspace 1. Open **Integrations** in the sidebar. 2. Find Notion and click **Connect with Notion**. 3. Notion asks you to approve access and to **choose which pages and databases to share**. Pick the database you want tasks filed in while you're there. 4. You'll land back in InfraNest, now connected. If **Connect with Notion** is greyed out, your InfraNest administrator hasn't registered a Notion connection yet. Use a token instead — see the next section. ## Connect with a token 1. In Notion, open the developer portal at `app.notion.com/developers/connections`. 2. Under **Internal connections**, choose **Create a new connection**, give it a name, and pick your workspace. 3. Open the **Configuration** tab and copy the **Installation access token**. 4. In InfraNest, open **Integrations** in the sidebar, then **Notion**, and paste the token in. InfraNest checks it right away and shows which workspace it belongs to. ## Share the database with the connection Do this even if the connection says it's working — a token on its own can see nothing. 1. In Notion, open the database you want tasks filed in. 2. Click the **•••** menu at the top right. 3. Choose **Connections → Add connection**, and pick the connection you just made. 4. Confirm it can access the page and everything inside it. If you connected with the one-click button and picked the database on Notion's approval screen, this is already done. ![Connect Notion](/media/e40091f4-de5e-40e5-a9df-4388723cc365) ## File a task from an automation 1. Build a rule as usual. 2. Pick **Create Notion task** as the action. 3. Set **Notion database** — start typing and pick from the databases this connection can see, or paste the link to a database straight out of your browser. If the list is empty, the sharing step above hasn't been done yet. 4. Set **Title** — plain text; you can drop in values from whatever triggered the rule, so the task arrives with the domain name or monitor already in it. 5. Set **Body** (**Optional**) — becomes the text inside the page. 6. Set **Properties** (**Optional**) — your database has whatever columns you gave it, so add a row per column you want to fill: pick the column by name, then type or pick the value. The column's type is shown underneath, so you can see whether it wants a date, one of a set of options, a number, and so on. The task the rule creates is available to later steps in the same rule, so you can post its link to Slack straight after filing it — or comment on it and move it, using the actions below. ## Comment on a task, or move it along - **Comment on Notion page** — adds a comment. Useful as the other half of a rule that files tasks: the monitor recovers, and the task says so. - **Update Notion page** — sets any of the same properties, so a rule that opened work can also finish it: set **Status** to Done, push a date out, or tick a checkbox. It can also move the page to the trash. You don't have to say which database the page is in — it already knows. Both ask which page. Paste its link from Notion, or refer to the task an earlier step in the same rule created — the picker of earlier values offers it. > [!TIP] > Chain actions in one rule — file the task, then comment or update it later in the same automation — using the earlier-values picker to point back at the task you just created. ## Troubleshooting **"Notion cannot see that page or data source."** This is the sharing step. Open the database in Notion, click **••• → Connections → Add connection**, and add this connection. **A list says why it has nothing to offer.** When Notion couldn't be asked, the list explains why instead of coming up empty: - *Needs to be connected again* — the connection's access was revoked or has run out. Connect it again under **Integrations** in the sidebar. - *Isn't allowed to read this list* — the connection works, but its access doesn't cover this list. Give it that access in Notion, or type the value. - *Couldn't load suggestions just now* — Notion didn't answer. Try again in a moment, or type the value. **The database list is empty.** Pick a connection first, at the top of the action. If it's still empty, nothing has been shared with the connection yet. **The property list is empty.** Choose the database first. If the database comes from the trigger rather than being picked, the list stays empty and you can type the column names instead. **"That Notion database has no property called …"** — the column name doesn't match. Notion column names are case-sensitive, and renaming a column in Notion doesn't update rules that name the old one. The message lists the columns the database actually has. **"Notion computes … itself."** Formula, Rollup, Created time, Last edited by and ID columns are worked out by Notion. Nothing can set them, including you, by hand. **"… is a checkbox — use true or false."** Checkbox columns take `true` or `false`. An empty value leaves the column alone rather than unticking it, so say `false` if you mean unticked. **"That Notion database has more than one data source."** Newer Notion databases can hold several sets of records. Pick the one you want from the database list instead of pasting the database's link. **"Notion refused this because the connection does not have that capability."** Commenting is a separate permission from writing pages, set on the connection in Notion's developer portal. Open the connection there and check its capabilities.