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Databases are collections of pages
Think of Notion databases as filing cabinets or notebooks. Each database serves as a container, letting you easily organize multiple Notion pages in a single structure. In the screenshot below, every row of the table is a page within the database "Roadmap."
This gives you a birds' eye view of an entire collection of pages at once. When you need to dive deeper, each page in a database can be opened, revealing its detailed contents.
Databases are pages themselves
But wait - each database is also a page itself! This is powerful, because it allows you to move and nest databases alongside other content, just like any other page.
Databases have properties
To help you organize all of the pages within a database, properties can be added to contextualize, label, and augment each individual item. You can then search, filter, and sort by these property values.
Database views display the same content in different ways
Databases in Notion are not static. The set of pages within each database can be displayed in many different forms, or what we call views. In addition to table view, the contents of a database can be visualized as a list, board, calendar, gallery, or timeline - whatever makes the information the most useful.
Module In Review
This module is an introduction to databases in Notion, describing them as collections of pages that serve as containers for organizing and managing multiple pages in a single structure. The module explains that each database is also a page itself, and can be moved and nested alongside other content. It also describes the use of properties to contextualize, label, and augment each individual item, and the ability to display the contents of a database in various views.
Learn More About Databases
To Learn More About Databases please watch the video from Notion Academy below.
