We've been thrilled to see so many Notion communities pop up around the world. It's wonderful to see our users come together to share best practices and help each other.
We strongly encourage anyone who is interested to start their own Notion community. This could be for your city, country, or an interest group. We put together some best practices and tips to help get the ball rolling.
Explore existing communities
Before you get started, take a peek at the list of existing groups and forums:
- Look through our Community page
- Look through our Luma pages
In some cases, there might already be a group for the same geography or interest. If you're still keen to get involved, we'd recommend reaching out to the admin of the community to see if there might be ways to work together. If you’re not sure how to reach out to them, please email us at community@makenotion.com
Getting started
Before launching, please make sure to review these resources. All participants are required to abide by these guidelines:
Please follow our instructions until the end and fill out the form. You do not need our approval to get started. After we review your submission we’ll follow up and let you know if your community qualifies to be listed on our official community page.
1. Submit your Luma page
If you are planning to host in-person or virtual events, you must create a Luma page to get added to our official Community page. We have our 
Notion Meetup Guide with guidelines on how to organize your first event.
Creating your calendar
- Use this link to create your Luma calendar
- When adding the name of your calendar, please follow this format: Notion
City Name
- Description: add a few words about your community, to start you can just use the name of your calendar and edit it later on.
- Favicon / logo
- Or create a custom icon following our Brand Guidelines
Add the Notion logo as your favicon
- Social preview image
- If you’d like to create something custom to use more fitting for your community, please go ahead!
Add one of these as the preview/cover image
- Hit submit and we’ll review your calendar for approval. Once approved, it will be added to our official list of Notion communities.
2. Create any other platform(s)
Get more exposure and gain members by building up your group's public presence. Here are some recommendations.
Build a group
We highly encourage you to use whichever platform is most relevant and interesting for you. In some cases, this might be platform-specific to your country or specific to the demographics of your community. We're excited to see where and what you build! Here are a few examples
We’ve seen communities use Facebook, Telegram, Discord, and more. You can take a look at our Community page for more examples.
Launch a Twitter account
- Make sure to follow our Notion’s brand usage guidelines: How to use Notion’s brand in your marketing when setting up your account
- Include a note in your bio saying that this is an unofficial community-managed account
Examples:
Create a Notion workspace
We recommend using Notion as a knowledge base for your community. Here is an example
Here are the types of pages your shared group workspace might include. We've provided basic examples you can adapt and make your own:
- Events calendar - Embed Notion community events
- Translations and local resources - Tutorials, help articles, videos, etc. in your native language
- Directory of members - Informative database of everyone in your community
- Landing page - Public-facing page for new folks who would like to join your community
You can take a look at our Community page for more examples.
Once you've put together your workspace and hosted your first event, we can upgrade your community workspace to a comped Plus plan so that you can add your community to the workspace. Please make sure to set up a brand new workspace when building this. You can reach out to us at community@makenotion.com
3. Reach out to our Community team
How Notion’s Community team can support you:
- Promote your community - Get your community listed on our Community page and amplified from our social media accounts. See our FAQ to learn what qualifies to get listed.
- Connect other leaders - meet and learn from other community leaders
- We have our Notion Ambassador Program program for community builders representing Notion.
- We have our Notion Campus Leaders Program for students representing Notion at their schools.
- Notion goodies to share with your members - We'll send you stickers, bags, pins and postcards to pass out with your Notion community. You will need to apply for our Ambassadors and Campus Leaders program in order to get goodies.
- Direct communication with the Notion team - You'll always be able to chat with someone on our team. We'll also channel your feedback to product and engineering, host AMAs with staff, and more.
Completed the instructions above? Fill out this form to get official support from us and our team will get back to you within 7 days.
Have questions in the meantime? Send us a note.