How to Connect Notion

Connect your Notion workspace to Notion Recall in about a minute.

Notion Recall reads the databases you choose from your Notion workspace and turns them into flashcard decks. To do that, you connect your Notion account once and grant access to the pages you want to study. Here is the whole flow, step by step.

Tap "Continue with Notion"

On the app's login screen, tap Continue with Notion. A secure browser window opens with Notion's official sign-in page.

Notion Recall never sees your Notion password — authentication happens entirely on Notion's side.

Sign in to Notion

If you are already signed in on this device, Notion may skip this screen.

Choose a workspace

Pick the workspace that contains the databases you want to study. If you belong to several workspaces, make sure you select the right one here.

This screen also shows what Notion Recall will be allowed to do: view the pages you select, and view workspace users and their emails.

Tap Select pages to access to continue.

Open the page selector

Notion now asks which pages Notion Recall may access. Nothing is shared until you add at least one page here.

Tap Add pages & databases to search your workspace.

Select your databases — the important part

Search for the databases you want to study and add them. You can add a parent page instead, which shares everything nested inside it.

Only what you add here will be visible to the app. Anything you leave out will not appear in Notion Recall.

When in doubt, add the top-level page that holds your study material.

Step 5: Select your databases — the important part

Allow access

Review the list of pages you selected, then tap Allow access. That completes the setup on the Notion side.

You are returned to the app, which now lists the databases you just granted access to.

Pick the databases to study

Finally, choose which of those databases you actually want to study. Check them and tap Done — each one you pick becomes a deck.

Granting access in the previous step and choosing to study something here are two different things. You can grant access broadly on the Notion side and then pick only what you need in the app.

You can change this selection at any time. The free plan syncs one database.

Troubleshooting

A database doesn't appear in the list

Wait a few minutes. Notion can take a little while to propagate newly granted access. Pull to refresh or tap the sync button after a short wait.
Check the access grant. The database (or one of its parent pages) may not have been added in step 5. See below for how to change what's shared.
Make sure the item is an actual Notion database (table, board, gallery, etc.), not a plain page.

Change which pages are shared

In the app's database selection screen, tap the Notion connection banner at the top (the row showing your workspace name). This re-runs the Notion authorization, where you can add more pages or remove access.

Connected the wrong workspace

Tap the connection banner to reconnect, and pick the correct workspace in step 3 of the authorization flow.