If you have a Linked tasks database in a Project template, how can you include "default" tasks in every new project? Here's my workaround for this tricky Notion problem.

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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
00:26 - Explaining the Problem
01:07 - My Workaround Description
02:15 - Exact Workaround Demo Timestamp
02:57 - Notion's Linked Database Limitation
04:17 - Simple Database Example (Full Workaround Build)


📚 FULL DESCRIPTION:
In Notion, you can add a Linked Database to a database template and use a self-referential filter to ensure that new rows added to that Linked Database view are related to the project you're working on (generated from the template).

A great example is a Projects database. You can create a project template containing a Linked Database view of your Tasks database, allowing you to add new tasks to each project.

But many projects often have the same set of default tasks - so how can you add these default tasks to your project template?

Unfortunately, you can't do this automatically - i.e. you can't just add tasks to the Project template and have Notion create new copies of them when you create a new project from the template.

This is because Notion can't tell another database to create new rows in response to you generating a page from a template.

However, there's a workaround for this problem. Add a basic checklist inside your project template, then drag it into the Linked Database view of your tasks database once you've created your new project.