notion-recipes

Notion Recipes

Use these recipes with easy-notion's MCP tools, or through the claude.ai connector when the equivalent tools are enabled. Recipe 2 (repair and find-replace) also works through the easy-notion CLI skill in skills/easy-notion-cli/. Recipe 1 does not: it needs create_database, source-block lookup with search_in_page, and structured database filters, and the current CLI surface does not expose that full workflow.

Recipe 1: Meeting Notes To Action Items

Turn a meeting-notes page or pasted notes into deduplicated rows in an Action Items database.

Safety boundary: Recipe 1 is re-run-safe and idempotent because Item Key stores the source line's stable Notion identity (<pageId>:<blockId>), not the action wording.

1. Create the Action Items database once with create_database under the user-selected parent page:

{
  "parent_page_id": "<parent page ID>",
  "title": "Action Items",
  "schema": [
    { "name": "Name", "type": "title" },
    { "name": "Item Key", "type": "rich_text" },
    { "name": "Owner", "type": "rich_text" },
    { "name": "Due", "type": "date" },
    { "name": "Status", "type": "status" },
    { "name": "Flags", "type": "multi_select" },
    { "name": "Source", "type": "rich_text" }
  ]
}

1. Read or receive the meeting notes. Extract only discrete action items.
2. For each item, derive these properties:
   • Name: the action text.
   • Owner: the named assignee, or blank.
   • Due: the stated date as ISO YYYY-MM-DD, or blank.
   • Item Key: the source line's stable identity, formatted as <sourcePageId>:<sourceBlockId>.
   • Source: the meeting title plus date. Do not stash flags here.
   • Status: Not started.
   • Flags: add needs-owner if no owner, and needs-due if no due date. These are multi_select values, not text in Source.
3. Resolve sourceBlockId with search_in_page. read_page returns markdown without block IDs. For a Notion-page source, call read_page to extract items, then for each item call search_in_page with a verbatim, distinctive substring of that item's original source line. Use the matches[].block_id whose text is that source line. If several blocks match, use a longer verbatim substring to isolate one block. For pasted notes, first save them as a Notion page with create_page, then proceed through search_in_page; do not rely on block IDs from create_page, which returns only {id,title,url}. If one source line contains multiple distinct actions, append a stable ordinal suffix in source order, such as :1 or :2, to keep keys unique.
4. Dedupe before insert. For each item, call query_database with this exact filter shape: