Template Guide

Connecting Notion as your CMS

Database properties, integration tokens, caching, and webhooks — everything you need to publish straight from Notion.

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Published: October 6, 2026
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In Notion mode, only pages with the Published checkbox turned on appear on the site.

Database properties

Property	Type	Required
`Name`	Title	✅
`slug`	Text	✅
`date`	Date	✅
`Published`	Checkbox	✅
`tags`	Multi-select
`excerpt`	Text
`series`	Select
`secret` / `password`	Checkbox / Text

Get a token

Create a new integration at Notion Integrations.
On your database page, open ··· → Connections and add the integration.
Add the values to .env:

NOTION_TOKEN=secret_xxx
NOTION_DATABASE_ID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Caching

To stay well under Notion's rate limits, responses are cached in memory and in .cache/notion/. The production TTL defaults to 60 seconds; set NOTION_CACHE=0 to disable caching.