Types of Notion Widgets
There are far more widgets than there are widget jobs. Five families cover almost everything: display changes how something looks, navigation moves people somewhere, time puts the clock or the date on screen, measurement counts what Notion will not, and feed pulls in something you update elsewhere. Pick the family first and the choice gets much smaller.
Display
Text in your own font and colour, image carousels, coloured and vertical dividers. These exist because Notion will not restyle itself. Across 20,800+ widgets built here, display is by far the biggest family, with more than three in four being image widgets alone.
Navigation
Buttons with a label and a destination, icon rows linking out to social accounts or across the workspace.
Time and measurement
The clock, the date, and the counter. A visitor counter on a published page answers whether anyone is reading it, which Notion itself will not.
Feed
Something you update in one place that appears everywhere: an announcement or changelog you post to once and every page shows.
Most people start by browsing galleries and end up with three widgets that all do atmosphere and none that do a job.
What thePlus.so builds in each family is on the widgets page.
Families across tools
The families hold wherever you look. Indify leans towards time and display, Apption works more like a directory across many small tools, WidgetBox and Blocs cover a similar spread to ours. A tool advertising forty widgets usually has forty variations inside three families rather than forty different jobs.
So when comparing, count families rather than items. A catalogue with a counter, a button, a feed and a carousel covers more ground than one with twenty clocks.
There is a sixth category that barely exists yet, which is widgets that react to something. Nothing in this list does, because a widget cannot see your workspace, and that limit is what separates the families from anything smarter.