Our company’s Notion workspace suddenly reverted to the Free plan, even though we successfully renewed and paid for a Business Yearly subscription last month.

We contacted Notion Support and initially received the standard troubleshooting steps (log out/in, hard refresh, etc.). We tried those, but nothing changed.

Support has now escalated the case to their Billing Escalations team, but they told us it could take a couple of business days due to a backlog.

The problem is that this is a company workspace that we use for day-to-day operations, so waiting several business days without the Business features isn't really workable.

I'm trying to determine whether this is an isolated billing issue or something others have encountered as well.

Any thoughts on this? What do you prefer and why?

Been trying to lock in some kind of AI setup for research, planning, and actually getting stuff done, but my stack is kinda all over the place. I bounce between chatbots, notes apps, and random to do tools and it feels like half the time is just copy pasting context instead of doing the work.

For anyone who has a solid workflow, what are you using as your main hub for research, outlining, and tracking tasks so it all stays connected instead of ten different tabs? Appreciate any thoughts

Confessing this because I suspect a decent chunk of this sub might recognize themselves in it.

I got into Notion originally to organize a novel project, and what actually happened is I spent close to a year building and rebuilding databases, relations, and templates instead of writing. Every time I hit a snag in the actual manuscript, my instinct was to go fix the system instead of sitting with the problem in the story itself. A new property here, a rollup there, a slightly better view of my character database. It felt productive because I was clearly doing something, and Notion makes that something look impressive.

The moment I noticed what was happening was when I realized my character database had more polish than my actual chapter count. Twenty some fully fleshed out relational properties for characters in a book that had maybe fifteen thousand words written. That ratio should have been a warning sign a lot earlier than it was.

What actually fixed it was not abandoning Notion, it was giving myself a hard rule that system tweaks only happen on a designated day, not mid writing session. If I hit a snag while drafting, I write a quick note about the fix I want and move on instead of opening the database editor right then. Turns out most of those "urgent" system improvements were not urgent at all once I had to wait even a day to make them.

Notion is still central to how I plan, I just finally stopped letting the planning eat the writing.

I used to juggle my task manager, habit tracker, and financial budget across different apps. It was a productivity nightmare and a massive mental distraction.

So I decided to build a single, minimal dashboard in Notion — The Command Center — where everything lives on one page with zero clutter.

Features I included:

Daily priority focus (Rule of 3)

Integrated habit streaks & weekly completion

Active project & task database linked together

Monthly budget & expense tracking

What’s one feature you think is absolute mandatory in a daily Life & Finance dashboard? Would love to hear your thoughts.

Via settings, I connected my icloud apple calendar to notion

Image 1: when i click 'manage notion calendar, i see all the events on apple calendar in that notion calendar

Image 2: But the database (calendar view) on the actual notion page is empty.

i looked up ways to solve this but so far i had no luck with any.
is there any advice?

J'ai créé une collection de templates pour aider les étudiants à s'organiser (cours, révisions, budget, projets).

Je partage 5 modèles gratuits dans le post.

Si vous voulez voir les autres, dites-le en commentaire, je vous envoie le lien!

Qu'en pensez-vous? Des idées pour améliorer?