Understanding Notion

This is what I've learnt after learning a bit about notion

  1. Everything in notion is a block.

Page#

A page is a special type of block which contain other blocks included pages known as subpages.

CollectionViewPage#

  1. A CollectionViewPage is also a special type of page, which has been converted into a full page database.
  2. Every CollectionViewPage has a collection related to it which contains various informations including the schema of the database.
  3. A CollectionViewPage can contain multiple views
  4. A CollectionViewPage and CollectionView are quite similar apart from the fact that
  5. CollectionView is not a page
  6. CollectionView is an inline database, while CollectionViewPage is a full-page database

CollectionView#

  1. A special type of block that has similar functionalities to that of a CollectionViewPage
  2. It can be embedded inside a page as a block
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