How to add daily quotes in Notion

You can add daily quotes in Notion with the Blocky quotes widget. It shows a quote on your page, and New Quote shows the next one.

Notion data

Quotes can take Notion data. You can write your own list of quotes in Blocky, or read the quotes from a Notion database. A Notion database needs one property for the quote and one for its author.

Add quotes and embed them in Notion

If you use a Notion database and the create dialog shows No Notion datasources found, click Sign in with Notion to connect Notion, and then start again at step 1.

1. In the Blocky dashboard, click Create widget.
2. Under Category, choose Misc.
3. Under Widget type, choose Quotes.
4. Under Style, choose a template, such as Normal.
5. To read the quotes from Notion, turn on Add a datasource, and then click Continue to data. To write your own quotes, go to step 8.
6. In Notion Datasource, choose your Notion database.
7. In Quote Field and Author Field, choose the properties for the quote and its author.
8. Click Open editor.
9. If you wrote your own quotes, add or change them on the Inputs tab. If the quotes come from Notion, change them in your Notion database, and then click Refresh data on the Inputs tab to load the changes. If you edit them under Written here instead, the widget stops reading from Notion.
10. Change the text, colors, and settings of the widget.
11. Click Save. Blocky publishes the widget and opens the dashboard.
12. On the card of the widget, click Copy.
13. In Copy embed link, copy the link on the Public tab. Anyone who has a Private link can use it, so use a private link only on pages that you control.
14. In Notion, open the page for the quotes. Type /embed, choose Embed, and paste the link.
15. Confirm the embed. If the widget needs more space, resize the embed block.

Templates

The create dialog lists the templates of the quotes widget under Style:

• Normal (Normal quotes). A white card with dark text, a gray author line, and a black New Quote button.
• Gradient (Gradient quotes). A purple-to-blue gradient card with white text and a semi-transparent New Quote button.
• Retro (Retro quotes). A cream card with a brown border and an amber button. The quote sits in a pale yellow panel in a monospace font.
• Inspirational (Inspirational quotes). A light blue card that fades to white, with blue text and a short accent bar. Press Inspire Me for the next quote.

Inputs

In the editor, select Widget in the Elements panel, and then open the Inputs tab. Its Source section sets where the quotes come from:

• Written here keeps a list that you edit in Blocky. Each entry has a Quote and an Author, and Add quote adds an entry.
• From Notion reads the quotes from a Notion database. Quote and Author pick its properties, and Refresh data applies your picks and loads their data.
• Shuffle shows the quotes in a new random order on each load.