Using atomic or non-atomic highlights & notes with Notion

Table of Contents

• Overview 
• Non-atomic Highlights & Notes 
• Atomic Highlights & Notes 
• Switching between Atomic and Non-atomic modes

Overview 

BookFusion uniquely empowers readers with precise control over syncing their highlights and notes to Notion, unlocking the full potential of Notion's capabilities. With support for two distinct options, you can effortlessly organize and connect concepts, creating a personalized experience that fuels creativity and understanding.

This is just one of the many exclusive features that set us apart, offering unmatched flexibility in managing your highlights and notes in Notion.

Non-atomic Highlights & Notes 

Non-atomic highlights & notes creates a single page per book with all the highlights & notes as blocks on that page.  This will be the mode that readers might be more familiar with. 

Advantages:

• Can easily view the full highlights and notes from a single page 

Disadvantages:

• Not able to easily filter highlights by tags or other associated metadata since Notion does not support block level attributes like tags 

To use Non-atomic highlights & notes you need to do the following:

1. Toggle Enable Atomic Highlights to Off . Should look like the screenshot below

2. Click Sync . Now open Notion and look at any of the book s that was just synced. You will notice that  the highlights are not linked but inside the page as separate blocks 

*NOTE: This is currently beta. A significant improvement is coming in the next update that better formats and displays all elements associated each highlight

Atomic Highlights & Notes 

Advantages:

• Can fully leverage the full power of Notion to filter highlights across multiple books, by tags, colors and other attributes
• Dedicated page for each unique highlight & note  

Disadvantages:

• All associated highlights and notes are linked from a single page. However you cannot see the full highlight & note in a nicely formatted manner from that single page  

1. Toggle Enable Atomic Highlights to On

2. Click Sync . Now open Notion and look at any of the books that was just synced. You will notice that you have a highlights section that links to each highlight on a new page 

3. Click on any of the highlights to open the page 

4. You should also notice a Highlights table that was created inside BookFusion allowing you to fully leverage the power of Notion

Switching between Atomic and Non-atomic modes

You can easily switch between atomic and non-atomic modes.  To do this simply do the following:

1. Select your desired mode by using the toggle as indicated above 

2. If you previously used another mode then you will need to Reset Sync State . Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Reset Sync State

3. Click Sync and wait for the updates 

4. Changes will now be applied to Notion 

NOTE:  When changing between Atomic and Non-Atomic Highlights & Notes you MUST click the Reset Sync State button  at the bottom of the page and then click Sync  for the changes to be updated in Notion.  There is no need to delete or remove any pages or tables.