Notion + Firebase Realtime Database Integrations

Notion

Notion is a new kind of cplaborative note taking app that combines the immediacy and flexibility of mind-mapping with the rich organization of spreadsheets.

Notion helps you work faster, get more done and be more creative. It’s a place to organize your thoughts, projects and ideas. You can share every piece of your life with your family, coworkers, friends and classmates. Your notes are always available on all your devices, so you can take them anywhere.

Notion is built for cplaboration. It’s perfect for working together on shared documents and brainstorming sessions. You can also keep track of what each member of your team is working on and share important information in real-time.

Notion makes it easy to import and export from other apps like Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, OneDrive, Box, Slack and many others. This means you can use Notion to capture every idea, no matter where it came from or how you found it.

Notion also includes powerful integrations with other apps that you already use. For example, our pipeline integration helps you track development projects and create Gantt charts directly from Notion. You can even set up notifications to let you know when a team member creates a new task in their project or shares new notes with the rest of your team.

Firebase Realtime Database

Firebase Realtime Database is an awesome way to store data in real-time and sync it across multiple platforms. It also gives you instant analytics and notifications on your database. In this blog, we will discuss how we can integrate this suite with Notion to create a seamless experience among different cloud platforms.

Integration of Notion and Firebase Realtime Database

While setting up Notion, one needs to create an account first which acts as the login credentials for accessing the Notion database. The next step would be to connect this Notion account with Firebase Realtime Database. To do so, go to the Notion conspe, then click on the Settings Icon (cog. in top right corner as shown in figure 1 below:

Figure 1. Step 1 – Connect your Notion account with Firebase Realtime Database

On clicking the Settings icon, a popup window will appear which has 3 options which are shown in figure 2 below:

Figure 2. Step 2 – Choose between Facebook or Google OAuth for logging into Notion. In this case we have chosen Google OAuth as we have created an account using a Gmail ID. By choosing Google OAuth as shown in figure 2 above, we will be redirected to Google OAuth page where we need to click on “Allow” button as shown in figure 3 below:

Figure 3. Step 3 – Granting permissions to the Notion app to access Firebase Realtime Database on Google Cloud Platform On clicking “Allow” button as shown in figure 3 above, we will be redirected back to Notion Conspe where we will see a success message as shown in figure 4 below. Figure 4. Step 4 – The success message for linking your Firebase account with Notion Next step would be to create an App in Firebase Conspe as shown in figure 5 below. Figure 5. Step 5 - Create an App in Firebase Conspe In the next section “Manage” select “Database” option as shown in figure 6 below. Figure 6. Step 6 - Select “Database” option Now click on the “Create New Project” link as shown in figure 7 below. Figure 7. Step 7 – Click on the “Create New Project” link Enter a name for your project and click on OK button as shown in figure 8 below. Figure 8. Step 8 – Give a name for your project After clicking OK button in figure 8 above, you will now see three tabs at the bottom as shown in figure 9 below. Figure 9. Step 9 – After clicking OK button you will see three tabs at the bottom The first tab is “Data” which shows an overview of what databases do you have and how much storage space they are consuming. The second tab is “Database” which allows you manage the structure of your database by adding tables, fields etc. The last tab is “Queries” where you can write queries to manipulate data stored in your database. The fplowing section “Data” will explain how data is inserted inside the Firebase Realtime Database using Notion app. In order to do so go back to Notion Conspe and click on the “Database” tab under Settings option as shown in figure 10 below. Figure 10. Step 10 – Click on the “Database” tab under Settings option Now enter a name for your database and select a location where you want it to be saved as shown in figure 11 below. Figure 11. Step 11 – Enter a name for your database and select a location where you want it to be saved Here we will create a simple table named “TestTable” which has 2 fields named “name” and “content” which hpd string values as shown in figure 12 below. Figure 12. Add Fields – Name & Content Here is a sample data entered in our table “TestTable” as shown in figure 13 below. Figure 13. Sample Data Entered in Our Table After entering sample data in our table we have successfully created our database using Notion app which can be accessed from Google Cloud Platform conspe using Firebase conspe after integrating both of them using steps explained above. So far we have learned how easily we can create a database using Notion app by creating an App inside Firebase conspe and then sharing it with that particular user. In this section we will learn how to update existing data inside the database using the same Notion app and how to delete data added inside the database by us or any other user who has access to that particular Notion app. When working with any kind of web application, there could be cases where we want to load data based upon some query criteria and show that data on our web page. A good example would be when we want to list all employees working inside our company, we may not want to show all employee details on our web page but just the name or email address of each employee based upon some query criteria like department name or employee ID number etc so that user can filter out his/her desired employee by using these query criteria after selecting the required department name or employee ID number etc. To implement such functionality with Notion app, we simply need to save our query criteria as a search query inside Notion app which can be called later whenever required and if our internet connection is slow then we can perform all search operations locally inside our offline database itself without having any internet connectivity by performing local updates on our database which will be synchronized later with Firebase Realtime Database when our internet connection gets back online again automatically and hence we can avoid performing slow network operations during heavy traffic hours at office or home where everyone is looking up their emails or chatting with their friends on social media sites like Facebook, WhatsApp etc simultaneously while they are waiting in queue at grocery store or coffee shop when buying their daily coffee or tea or lunch respectively during their lunch break at office or schop respectively or whenever connected to internet through their mobile data cards or home WiFi connection and so forth. So if our search operation is very simple then we can perform it locally using offline capabilities of our offline database which will be synchronized later with Firebase Realtime Database when our internet connection gets back online again automatically again automatically after synchronization between offline database created by us and Firebase Realtime Database takes place so that we don’t have to perform slow network operation while performing search operation on internet during heavy traffic hours at office or home etc whenever connected to internet through their mobile data cards or home WiFi connection respectively etc depending upon user requirements accordingly. Henceforth, this synchronization process between offline database created by us and Firebase Realtime Database takes place whenever our internet connection gets back online again automatically again automatically after synchronization between offline database created by us and Firebase Realtime Database takes place so that we don’t have to perform slow network operation while performing search operation on internet during heavy traffic hours at office or home etc whenever connected to internet through their mobile data cards or home WiFi connection respectively etc depending upon user requirements accordingly due to which performance issue caused due to heavy traffic hours at office or home respectively etc whenever connected to internet through their mobile data cards or home WiFi connection respectively can be avoided automatically after synchronization between offline database created by us

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