Sync to Notion

The CSV and Markdown exports are snapshots you download. Notion is the other kind: connect it once, and Becoming keeps a database in your Notion workspace filled with your highlights — one page per source, with your notes and tags — adding new ones as you import them.

Who Can Use It

Anyone with access to Becoming: during a free trial, on The Library or on The Academy. If your subscription lapses, the sync pauses — nothing already in Notion is touched — and it picks up where it left off when you resubscribe. You can still disconnect Notion while your access is lapsed, and the CSV and Markdown downloads stay open either way.

Connect Notion

You can connect from the web app or from the Becoming app on iPhone and Android. On the web:

Go to Settings → Exports and, in the Sync to an app card, click Connect on the Notion row.
Notion opens and asks for permission. The first screen lists what Becoming will be able to do in your workspace; click Next.
On the second screen, choose Use a template provided by the developer, then click Allow access. The template is what gives Becoming a database to fill, so keep it selected.
You’re back in Becoming, on the Notion page (Settings → Exports → Notion → Manage). Your first export starts right away and the page shows it running; when it’s done, it reads something like “Exported 120 Highlights to 8 pages” — one page per source. Click Open in Notion to see the result.

In the app, open Settings, tap Exports under Highlights, tap Notion under Sync to an app, then tap Connect Notion. Notion’s permission screen opens in a browser sheet over the app; go through the same two screens (steps 2 and 3 above), and when you allow access you’re back on the app’s Notion screen, where the first export runs and reports its result just as on the web. Tap Open in Notion to see it.

If you belong to more than one Notion workspace, pick the one you want in the workspace picker at the top right of Notion’s permission screen before you allow access.

What You Get in Notion

Notion adds a private page called Becoming to your workspace, and inside it a Library database:

One page per source — each book, article, video or podcast you have highlights from. Each highlight is a paragraph, in reading order, ending with where it sits in the source — a link to that spot when there’s one Notion can open. Your notes on the highlight follow as Note: lines, and your tags, plus the AI tags you’ve confirmed, as a Tags: line.
Properties — Title, Author, Full Title, URL, Category (Books, Articles, Videos or Podcasts), Highlights (how many the page holds), Last Imported and Last Synced. The source’s cover, when Becoming has one, becomes the page cover.
Views — Books (the one Notion opens on), Articles, Tweets, Videos and Podcasts, plus All, a table of every source. Posts you saved from X are grouped by author under Tweets.

Only your own highlights are included — popular passages and the ones Becoming’s AI surfaces stay out, as in the downloads.

If your account is in Spanish, the database, its properties and its views are in Spanish too.

Staying in Sync

After the first export, new highlights reach Notion on their own: a couple of minutes after every import, and once a day besides. From the Notion page in Settings → Exports, on the web or in the app, you can also:

Export now — send anything new right away, without waiting.
Export automatically — turn the automatic part off. With it off, nothing goes to Notion until you use Export now.

Editing in Notion

Becoming only ever adds to your Notion pages; it never rewrites one. New highlights on a source are appended at the bottom of its page. That makes the pages yours to work with:

Rename, move and edit the pages, and add your own properties to the database — Becoming leaves all of that alone.
Don’t delete the database’s default properties or change their type: Becoming writes to them on every sync.
Delete a page in Notion and it comes back, with all of that source’s highlights, the next time a new highlight from that source syncs. Until then, Becoming leaves it deleted.
Delete the Library database itself and syncing stops: the Notion page in Settings → Exports asks you to reconnect, and reconnecting starts a new database with all your highlights.

The flip side is that changes made in Becoming after a highlight has reached Notion don’t follow it there. Edit a highlight, a note or a tag in Becoming later, and the Notion page keeps what was sent the first time.

Notes you wrote on a source itself, rather than on a particular highlight, aren’t synced to Notion. The Markdown export includes them.

Disconnect or Switch Workspace

On the Notion page in Settings → Exports, on the web or in the app, choose Disconnect Notion. Becoming stops syncing, and everything already in Notion stays exactly where it is. If you connect the same workspace again later, the sync continues on the same pages instead of starting over.

Reconnecting still takes you through Notion’s template screen, so Notion makes a fresh copy of the Becoming page. Since the sync keeps writing to your original database, Becoming moves that unused copy to your Notion trash, where you can restore it if you want it.

To sync to a different workspace, disconnect, then connect again and choose the other workspace in the picker at the top right of Notion’s permission screen.