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Create a new Email-to-Notion Sync

In your Slap account, go to Email-to-Notion Syncs and click on the button New Sync.

1. Name your sync

Name - Name your Sync (e.g. Helpdesk, Admin Support, …); this is for your reference only.

2. Select your Notion Database

Notion Database - Select the Notion Database where you want to send your emails.
- You can either work with one of your existing databases or use one of our free Notion templates to get started quickly. In that case, simply duplicate the chosen template and follow the step below to give Slap an access to this page.
- If your Notion database doesn’t appear in the list, it’s probably because Slap doesn’t have yet access to it. Click on the button Share Access button. Choose the option “Select pages to share with Slap”. Make sure you then select the page that holds the database (and not just a view of your database) and click on “Allow access”.
- It may take a few minutes before a newly shared Notion database becomes visible. You can continue with the rest of the set up and come back to this step later. Don’t hesitate to use the refresh button next to the Notion database field a few times.
- Having issue to see your database appearing? You’ll find more information here.
Contact Email(s) - This is the field where the email address(es) of your contact(s) will be stored. Choose an email or text property from your Notion database to store it. If you’ve just added the property to your database, hit the refresh button to see it appearing.
Thread ID - Select a text property from your database where we can store the thread ID, a technical field we use to determine which emails are part of the same conversation/thread. You can always hide this field in your Notion database to avoid cluttering your interface. If you’ve just added the property to your database, hit the refresh button to see it appearing.

3. Connect your mailbox

Mailbox - Select the mailbox you want to sync with your Notion database. Click on the button Connect new Gmail mailbox to add a new one.

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4. Decide which emails should be sent to Notion

Filter - You can choose whether all emails from your connected mailbox should appear in Notion or only specific ones based on their label (or alias). Learn more about using labels to filter emails sent to Notion here.

Test the sync

Verify that everything is working as expected by sending an email to your own mailbox.

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If you’ve filtered the emails to sync based on their labels (see step n°4), don’t forget to set the right label on your email, else it won’t appear in Notion.

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Check if the email has arrived in your Notion database.
The content of the email will appear in the comment section (so make the comment section is displayed in your Notion database).
Now, simply reply to the email by adding a comment.