I hacked Notion wikis

I don’t about you but I think the native Notion Wiki feature sucks. It drives me absolutely bonkers that it’s separate from databases, and you’ve got to jump through a bunch of hoops to set it up — all to just get access to page verification. Even as a Notion expert, I still get confused on how to get to wikis.

So I hacked it.

Now obviously, page verification & expiration is pretty important. It helps teams keep on top of their SOPs especially when their product is ever evolving like a client I worked with in the FinTech space that I developed this setup for.

In that project, we migrated them from Slite, a knowledge management tool. It was the one feature they hoped to keep — without it being intrusive to their work.

To achieve this hack and turn a plain, boring database into a custom wiki, I needed to include a few things;

• an editable page owner for notifications
• verification options
• an updates output to easily see what’s going on
• a simple layout & ability to hide excess properties
• and automations to keep everything running

When a page is created, the owner is automatically tagged, and the verification is set to 30 days. After expiring, the automations are triggered to notify…