Who is Notion Dad?
Notion tutorials, templates and workspace consulting. Known for The Notion CSS guide for Super and Fruition sites.
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“An old Notion thread points me at @notiondad or a notiondad.com tutorial, the link is dead, and I want to know who wrote it and whether the advice is worth chasing down.”
Will ran notiondad.com from 2021 as a Notion consultant, publishing free tutorials on small Notion mechanics and templates that mostly went out at whatever you could pay. The site is offline and his attention moved to other tools in late 2022, so read the tutorials through the Internet Archive and expect the details, especially the Super CSS selectors, to have drifted since.
The homepage of notiondad.com opened with a self introduction and a job description: "I'm Will, a Notion consultant and dad. I share templates and help people with their Notion workspace and productivity." Below that sat a short explainer on what Notion is, two service offers, and six templates, five of them priced at whatever the reader could pay.
The tutorials were narrow and practical. How to sync blocks across Notion pages. Table summaries. Multiplying two columns. Next and previous buttons, so a run of Notion pages could be read like a short book or a zine. Adding a home screen widget. Time tracking built out of a task template and a dateBetween formula, with Toggl offered to anyone who wanted proper reporting on top.
The site itself ran on Notion and published through Super, and it demonstrated the things it was describing. The navigation menu and the footer were synced blocks, so editing one copy changed every page. When he wrote that feature up in 2021 he pointed readers at Red Gregory's post on the same thing, which is roughly how the whole library read.
A Notion consultant who ran his own site inside Notion
The two things he sold were a custom workspace build, aimed at people who did not want to spend hours on trial and error, and consultation for companies just starting out, covering everything "from basic blocks to the most advanced database formulas". The site was the shop window and the working demo at the same time. Around it he stacked a tutorials list that ran to ten entries by late 2021, a blog, and a template shelf. He kept writing as Notion shipped things: synced blocks in June 2021, the Mermaid diagram update at the end of that year, where he embedded a gantt chart into the daily dev log he kept for his day job, and then the public API, which he wired through Automate.io to Buffer so people could schedule social posts out of a Notion database using free accounts on every service in the chain.
The CSS guide that got Super sites out of the default look
It was written for people publishing a Notion site through Super or Fruition who wanted it to stop reading as a Notion page. The guide showed where to paste custom CSS in both setups, then handed over the snippets. A callout block became a full width colour band by targeting its block ID with a negative margin. The front page title was centred through its data-block-id, so the rule did not catch every heading on the site. The dark mode switch went away with one line on .toggle-mode, a gradient went on .notion-frame, and default body colour on .notion-page-content. He flagged the awkward part honestly: Notion resists columns inside a callout, and he linked out to a workaround. The buttons section carried a note that they had taken him far too long to figure out, so hopefully he would save someone else the time.
Templates priced at whatever the reader could pay
Seven templates were on the templates page in October 2021, and exactly one of them had a fixed price. Project Management, a Notion Template for Teams went out at £10 and up, built on an agile workflow, with a master tickets database of twenty five properties, a backlog to groom, sprints of a week or more, epics with progress bars, a knowledgebase every ticket could link back to, and a form page clients could use to raise tickets themselves. Everything else was pay what you can: a CV, an invoice, a podcast manager, a Wim Hof Method practice tracker, a dream journal, and Your Virtual Baby Book, which he pitched on the thing that actually happens to new parents, that a year goes by fast enough to forget the first time a newborn smiled or rolled over.
Where the tutorials went
In November 2022 he updated the now page on his own site and said it plainly: between Obsidian for knowledge management and ClickUp for tasks, he had "pretty much left Notion behind". The site followed him over. By late 2023 the homepage read "Will, ClickUp Consultant", and two of the four featured articles were about ClickUp. notiondad.com no longer loads at all; the domain sits with a reseller. His YouTube playlist, The Productive Dad, is still up on the channel he runs under his own name, Will Helliwell, and it still holds the Notion work from 2023: a two minute tour of a client project management workspace, and a free Notion template of ChatGPT prompts. Newer uploads on that channel are ClickUp workflows and music.
Why Notion Dad is on this list
Free tutorials on the small mechanics of Notion, written in the weeks synced blocks, Mermaid diagrams and the public API were arriving. A CSS guide that gave everyone publishing a Notion site through Super or Fruition a set of selectors they could copy. Templates that mostly went out at whatever the reader could pay, including a project management build for teams and a baby book for parents who were never going to write one on paper. And a habit of sending people onward when someone else had already answered it, to the Notion Made Simple group, to Red Gregory, to Notion's own guides.
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