4. Write, Edit & Customize

In this Chapter

At its simplest, Notion can be used as a straightforward text editor. But there's so much more you can put in a page than plain text, and we'll show you how to take advantage of all the different editing and customization features in Notion.

Articles

Writing & editing basics

Notion is first and foremost a writing tool. It works as simply as any word processor, only you can add many different types of content to a page, and move it around and modify it in new ways ✏️

Columns, tables, headings & dividers

Notion is designed to get thoughts out of your head and onto the page. Once they're there, you can rearrange, organize, and structure them to think and write more clearly 📐

Duplicate, delete & restore content

Any content you add to Notion can be duplicated or deleted with a couple clicks, whether that's an image, embed, page, or database. And if you ever get rid of content and need to get that work back — we got you covered on that too 🖇

Customize & style your content

You can make Notion look and feel any way you want — like your brand, your team, your style. We've built in features so you can customize any page or workspace. No matter what, Notion makes your design look great 🎨

Create links & backlinks

Notion makes it easy to create and copy links to both whole pages or individual content blocks inside pages, like an anchor link to a particular heading, text, or image. This lets you create and share links that take people directly to what they need 🔗

Images, files & media

You can upload many content types directly to a Notion page for easy reference, or to make it available for others to download. Images, videos, audio, and more - options are endless 🎞️

Math equations

On any Notion page, you can display beautifully formatted, comprehensible mathematical characters, expressions and equations. This comes in handy for note taking, technical documentation, homework, or anywhere you need to use fractions and equations 🧮

Code blocks

Code blocks are useful to demonstrate programming concepts, share code with other developers, or maintain your own library of code snippets. They also make it a breeze to copy any amount of code to your clipboard to use elsewhere 🕹️

Template buttons

In Notion, you can easily replicate content combinations you use frequently — essentially creating your own templates within a page 🍣

Synced blocks

Notion allows you to sync content blocks across multiple locations. With synced blocks, you can edit all these instances at the same time 🔄

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