How to Create Sub-Items in Notion [2024]

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Using Sub-Items in Notion can help you break down projects into tasks. You can use this feature in various other ways too. Let’s see how to quickly add this to our Notion database.

How to enable sub-items in Notion

Step 1: Open the database view options

Open the database view options by clicking on the 3-dots icon

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Step 2: Next go to sub-items

Click on the 5th option called “sub-items”

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Step 3: Click on “Turn on sub-items”

Next, in the sub-items menu section, click on “Turn on sub-items” to enable sub-items for your database

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Step 5: Add subitems to your database

Just hover over the database items and click on the triangle icon beside the name to open the sub-items list.

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Now click on “Add sub-items” to add a new sub-item to that specific item.

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Turning back off sub-items will result in deletion of all the sub-items of the database

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How to add sub-items columns in a Notion database

You can see the sub-items in a separate column to easily glance at all the subitems for each item. Here’s how to do it.

Step 1: Go to database view options

Go to database view options by clicking on the 3-dot icon.

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Step 2: Open the properties menu

Click on the second option to open the properties menu from the View options.

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Step 3: Drag the sub-item to the “shown in the table” section

In the properties menu, there are two sections, shown in the table and hidden in the table. Just drag the sub-item column from hidden in the table to shown in the table section.

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Next, click on the cross button to close the view options.

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Now you can see a new sub-items column in your database

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Learn more about sub-items in Notion

Conclusion

Using sub-items is a great way to organize your database. You can use the above method to easily add sub-items in Notion.

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