Introduction

In this video, I’m going to show you exactly how to create button widgets in your Notion App and the best thing about it is that its totally FREE (for now anyway). 

I’ll be showing you how this wonderful new feature allows you easily create vertical as well horizontal menus (just like a traditional website) but also social share buttons as well as email buttons. So let’s get this video started!

So this widget is the latest in the line of widgets that have been developed by the team over at Indify. If you haven’t checked out my video where I walk you through all of their other widgets including the famous weather, clock, google calendar and countdown widgets then make sure to check that out straight after this video.  

In order to access the widgets, you’ll need to head to the Indify.co website and create a free account. And then you’ll need to scroll down until you see the Button Widget.

Click create widget to begin!

Add Multiple Buttons in the same widget 

You can add multiple Buttons within the same widget. This is a great feature and saves you having to create a new widget for every single button you want to add in Notion.

Horizontal Button Layout – Create a Top Bar Menu 

You can add multiple Buttons within the same widget to create a traditional menu bar you see at the top of webpages.

 

With the Horizontal layout, you additional customisation options such as Left, Center, Right and Spaced Evently:

Let’s have a quick look at the difference between each option.

Left: 

Center: 

Right:

Spaced Evenly:

You can also change the padding between button to suit your design by using the horizontal padding slider.

Vertical Button Layout – Create a sidebar Menu 

You can also easily change the layout of the buttons to be vertical so that it creates a sidebar menu design. 

Set background colour of the widget 

You can change the background colour of all the buttons in the same widget to any colour you want by using this simple menu.

Customise Individual Buttons

As well as customising all the buttons, you can also customise some design features of each individual buttons within your widget. 

 You can choose to hide the icon, change outline colour, change background colour as well the text of each button individually.

 

Or even create social share icons like below:

External Links to Any Webpage 

 You can add URL links to any website page you want. Simply copy and paste the link in to the URL section within each button. 

Internal Links to any Notion pages  

You can also link to any Notion pages directly as well and therefore creating an internal Notion navigation menu.

Once you are on the Notion page you want to link to, go to the top right hand corner and then click on the 3 dots menu. 

Then select the copy link option. 

Now go back into your Indify button widget and paste the link in there.

 

PRO TIP

If you want the page to open up within your Notion Desktop app rather than in the Notion app on the web browser, all you need to do is simply replace the ‘https’ at the start with ‘notion’ like this:

So it really depends on whether you primarily use the Notion Desktop app or the web browser app.

Email Button

You can also very easily create a button that automatically opens up the default email application on your pc so that getting in touch with you in a breeze! 

All you have to do is in the “Link URL” field, type in the following without the double quotes: “mailto:john@example.com” — NOTE: the ‘mailto’ component is crucial – don’t make a typo

Social Share Buttons

You can also easily create social share icons using this button widget. Here’s a quick tip on how to do that.

Simply copy the Notion page you want to have the ability to share and then go to  the following website 

https://www.websiteplanet.com/webtools/sharelink/

Now just paste your notion page link in here and click ‘Create Links’

You then be given all the social share links to your page below for FREE.

Now you can copy the URL for any page you want to share into the button URL and you’re good to go!

Let’s try out the twitter link as an example:

Now lets paste the link in the button widget

Next you’ll need to copy the link to the button widget from the bottom of the page

Finally, go over to your notion page and embed the URL 

When you click on your button, it should open up twitter automatically with the url link to this notion page so that its ready for you to share

Easy peasy lemon squeezy

Conclusion

This is a fantastic free button widget that you can use to super change your notion setup! I would highly recommend using it.