👋🏻 Introduction

NotionSocial

**Notionsocial** is a social scheduling tool that allows users to schedule and publish social media posts using a Notion database.

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📒 Tutorial

➕ Add social accounts

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To start scheduling, you first need to add Social Accounts, Please grant all required permission in the permission window while adding a social account.

These added Social Accounts can be linked and unlinked to multiple Notion Databases that you are going to add in the next step.

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To add an Instagram account, Make sure it is a business account (Not creator or Professional) ****and it must be linked to a Facebook page in your Facebook account. Learn more.

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You can only schedule posts on a Facebook page, Not on profiles.

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🔌 Connect a notion database

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Now let’s connect a Notion database, If you do not already have one, create a database in Notion to store your social media content.

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The Notion Database is where you'll create new pages to plan your posts. Notionsocial will automatically take the content from these pages and publish them. If you're using a template, make sure to connect the source database that stores all your posts.

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Steps to connect a notion database

1. Go to “Notion Databases” tab

2. Click on “Add” and continue to Notion Permission Window.

3. Grant the permissions

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   It will ask you to select the pages in your workflow to grant Notionsocial permission.

   Remember to select the database or top-most parent page of the database if the database is nested inside.

   Or type in the Title of the database in the search bar and grant permissions for it.

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4. You will be redirected to Notionsocial:

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   Now you need to tell Notionsocial the database you want to connect.

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5. Write the title of the database in the search bar.

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   You can also paste the link of the database, By copying it from the tab bar of your browser or it’s shareable link.

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6. Select your database by the title and then click on “Connect”

After connecting the database, you’ll see the following new properties added to it:

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You can also update the names of these linked properties

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Required props for creating a new post

1. Platforms | multi-select *****

   The social accounts which are linked to the database will be available as options in this property.

   They are named in the format {platform}@{username}]

   • List of Social Platforms