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Notion is a workspace for docs, wikis, projects, and databases. The Notion app + chat connector lets your Lovable app reach the pages and databases your team has shared with it, so you can build apps that turn Notion content into a customer-facing experience or push structured data back into Notion as your source of truth. The Notion app + chat connector lets apps you build with Lovable read and write Notion content while people use them. With Notion, your app can:
  • Read pages, blocks, and rich text from your Notion workspace
  • Query Notion databases with filters, sorts, and pagination
  • Create new pages and append blocks to existing pages
  • Update database rows (for example, status, owner, due date)
  • Drive content-managed sites and dashboards where editors work in Notion
Each Notion connection is authorized for a single Notion workspace and only sees the pages and databases that were explicitly shared with the integration during authorization. You can create multiple connections to work across multiple workspaces or to separate environments.

Common use cases and example apps

How Notion connections work

Lovable uses one centrally managed Notion app to power all Notion integrations across workspaces. Within your Lovable workspace:
  • You can create multiple Notion connections.
  • Each connection is a separate OAuth authorization tied to a single Notion workspace.
  • Each connection only sees the pages and databases shared with it during authorization. It cannot reach other content in that Notion workspace.
  • Multiple projects within a single Lovable workspace can use the same connection.
This makes it easy to separate environments (for example, development and production) or work with multiple Notion workspaces from the same Lovable workspace. Notion uses Lovable’s gateway architecture for secure OAuth handling and automatic token refresh. See Gateway-based connectors for details on authentication and usage limits.

How to connect Notion

Workspace admins and owners can connect Notion.

Prerequisites

Before connecting Notion, make sure you have:
  • A Notion workspace where you can install integrations (or request admin approval)
  • Permission in Notion to share the pages and databases your app needs
  • Lovable workspace admin or owner role
All API requests made through this connector go to your Notion workspace. Notion API usage counts toward your Notion plan limits and is handled directly by Notion, not Lovable.

Step 1: Decide what to share with the integration

Notion only exposes content that has been explicitly shared with the integration. Before authorizing, decide which pages and databases your app should be able to read or write.
Share a single top-level page (or database) and let your app reach everything beneath it via Notion’s normal inheritance, rather than sharing many pages individually.

Step 2: Connect Notion to Lovable

You can create multiple connections to authorize different Notion workspaces or to keep environments separate.
1

Open Notion in Connectors

Go to Connectors and select Notion.
2

Add a connection

Click Add connection.
3

Configure the connection

  • Display name: name the connection, for example Notion Prod.
  • Who can access this connection: keep access limited to specific people or invite the entire workspace. See Who can use connections and clients for more information.
4

Connect to Notion and authorize

  • Click Connect. The Notion authorization window opens. Make sure your browser doesn’t block pop-ups.
  • Sign in to Notion if needed and select the workspace you want to connect.
  • On the Select pages screen, choose the pages and databases your app should be able to access. You can update this later from inside Notion.
  • Review the requested permissions and click Allow access. You’ll be redirected back to Lovable with a confirmation.
When connected, your Lovable apps can start reading and writing Notion pages and databases.

Working with shared pages and databases

Notion’s permission model is opt-in: an integration can only see what’s been explicitly shared with it.
  • If your app is missing content it should be able to see, share the page or database with the integration in Notion (ShareConnectionsAdd connections).
  • Sharing a parent page automatically shares its sub-pages with the integration.
  • You can revoke access from inside Notion at any time without removing the Lovable connection. The connection stays connected, the integration just sees less content.
  • Pages your app creates or updates are attributed to the integration in Notion’s page history, not to an individual user.
When prompting Lovable, be explicit about which database or page the app should use, for example: “use the Tasks database to populate the dashboard”.

Limitations

The Notion connector cannot:
  • Receive incoming Notion webhooks or events (for example, “page updated” notifications)
  • Reach pages or databases that haven’t been shared with the integration
  • Perform Notion workspace administration (member management, permissions, billing)
Multiple connectors that share the same Notion login and Notion workspace also share page permissions, and the most recently configured connector overwrites the permissions for all of them.
If your app needs realtime reactions to changes in Notion, build a polling pattern (for example, query the database on a schedule) instead of relying on push events.

Manage your connection

Connections are managed from Connectors: select , then open the connection.
  • Unlink projects to remove access from specific projects while keeping the connection available for others. See Unlink projects from a connection for the steps.
  • Delete the connection to remove it from the workspace entirely. Deleting is permanent. It removes the credentials from all linked projects, and app features that use stop working until a new connection is added. See Delete a connection for the steps and who can delete.