Let’s keep rolling — there are so many ways to link things in Notion!
In our last lesson, we briefly mentioned @-mentions (haha!). @-mentioning is probably the most versatile and accessible way of linking pages together. What’s cool about this method though is that we can mention a bunch of other useful things as well, not just pages.
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To @-mention (or, in other words, link) a page, just start typing @-nameofpage . This will bring up an inline search menu, where page suggestions will start appearing. As you continue typing more letters of your desired page, the options will narrow down. You’ll probably notice that there will be sections suggesting things other than pages (we’ll cover those in a sec!).
After finding your desired page to link to, click Return or click on its name in the pop up menu. This will create a direct link to that page, as well as create a Backlink (explained in our previous lesson) to the page you’re linking from.
What’s the difference between @-mentioning vs adding a /Link block?
/Link creates an individual block, which means you can’t add any more text in that line other than the link itself. @-mentions are inline, which means you can throw them casually into pretty much any other block that contains text.
Honestly, at this point, I barely use the dedicated /Link blocks and pretty much always use an @-mention. They’re quicker, more versatile, and more functional. Let’s now talk about what else we can @-mention!
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We’ll talk later in greater detail about how to manage Workspace Members and what Member Groups actually are, but for now I’ll just bring up that you can also @-mention any workspace Member, Guest, or Group.
Whenever you mention another user, this will:
- Send a notification to that user that they were mentioned
- Create a dynamic link to that user’s Me page (we’ll explain this later as well)
@-mentioning people is a great way to quickly get someone’s attention anywhere in Notion, or contextually reference them outside of database properties. A good practice is to @-mention a person anytime their name would be mentioned in text. For example, in our internal workspace, whenever we write a document what would mention Alex, we simply type @Alex Antoszek instead of just Alex. Even though we only have one Alex working with us, this does let him track all places he’s mentioned, and see all tasks or processes he’s a part of more easily.
Mentioning groups works similarly, though it does not trigger notifications to members of a group nor does it link to a similar “Me page”, like it does for an individual user. We barely use Groups, but they do come useful when working in a Workspace with lots of members.
Copy link to headingDates & reminders
Another thing we can mention using the @- menu are dates. This is a useful way to dynamically add in dates to your documents. You can either type in a specific date, for example “14th October 2025”, or just type in “Today”, “One week from now”, etc. These dates will automatically update as time passes.
After adding an @-mention of any date, you can also click on your newly created mention to open a little date picker (similar to the one we have in Date-based database properties), just in case you’d need to edit the date without removing the actual mention.
Reminders
We can also add “remind” to any date string after typing @ and activating the @-mention menu. This will create a dynamic reminder for your desired date, and this reminder will notify everyone who has access to the page its on. By default, reminders in Notion trigger at 9AM the day of, and so if you’d like to modify the time your reminder will trigger, you’ll need to click on your newly created @-mentioned reminder, open the date picker, click “Include time”, add a time, and then in the Reminder settings you’ll be able to choose whether the reminder should be triggered at the default timestamp, or some time before.
As you can probably notice, @-mentioned dates & reminders function a bit similarly to Date type properties in Databases. That’s on purpose – to bring a bit of that database functionality to any doc.
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@-mentions are one of the most used text-based features in Notion by everyday users. We use them heavily as well, though we try to keep as much data as possible in Database properties, since it’s harder to keep track of all the @-mentions in a large Notion workspace. They’re super easy to use though — try them yourself!
Now, let’s talk about External Links.