Creating and Improving Dashboards in Notion

🧭 Introduction

Dashboards are the heartbeat of any Notion setup—whether for personal productivity, team coordination, or tracking business performance. They provide at-a-glance insights and centralized navigation for the information that matters most.

In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the most common dashboard use cases we've seen in our consulting work, along with practical tips to help you design cleaner, more effective dashboards in Notion.

⏳ Common Use Cases

A personal homepage is often the first place users build a dashboard. The goal? A clean, high-level view of your life or system. This might include:

🎯 Keep it functional but inspiring—a space you want to return to daily.

For teams and organizations, dashboards function as digital intranets.

🛠️ Make navigation intuitive. Use headers, dividers, and icons to help users orient themselves.

Project dashboards are essential for tracking deliverables, milestones, and who's doing what.

Common elements include:

📌 Tip: Use filtered database views to show only relevant items for each project.

Since the introduction of Notion Charts and third-party tools like Notionlytics or Chartbrick, visual dashboards have become much more powerful.

Use them to track:

📉 Be mindful not to overwhelm with too many charts—less is more.

🛠️ Tips for Better Dashboards in Notion

Now that we’ve covered use cases, here are some best practices and common mistakes to keep in mind when building dashboards in Notion:

Break your content into columns to improve visual balance and readability. This works well for:

Avoid the “one dashboard to rule them all” approach.

🎯 Focused dashboards reduce clutter and increase clarity.

Yes, you can stack multiple views (e.g., board, list, calendar) in one block—but don’t overdo it.

Instead:

Dashboards should inform at a glance, not require analysis.

🎨 Balance aesthetics and function: your dashboard should look good but stay digestible.

✅ Conclusion

A great Notion dashboard is more than just a collection of linked databases—it's a curated experience.

Whether you’re designing for yourself, your team, or your entire company:

With a bit of thought and structure, you can turn your Notion pages into intuitive control centers that make your digital workspace truly come alive.