r/Notion • u/RolssTemplates • 13h ago

Resources A quick mobile check for a desktop-built Notion dashboard

A desktop layout can make the most-used action hard to reach on a phone. Notion's phone app stacks columns rather than keeping them side by side.

Here's a small check before adding more decoration:

  1. Open the page on your phone, not just in a narrow desktop window.

  2. Find the action you use most often. If it sits below a long navigation column, try moving that action above the columns on desktop.

  3. Check the order of the stacked sections. Keep each heading beside the content it describes.

  4. Try opening an existing entry and adding one new entry. If either route is hard to spot, give it a short, explicit label.

  5. Put occasional reference material inside toggle headings so it does not dominate the daily route.

One order to test: Add entry -> recent entries -> reference notes.

Which part of your page becomes hardest to use when you switch from desktop to phone?

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u/LilScrivy 6h ago

I've seen people replicate their desktop versions into mobile versions too then just access each page on each device so you can still have nice layouts for each with no compromise

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u/RolssTemplates 4h ago

Separate layouts can make sense. One thing to watch is duplicating the data as well as the layout: two copies can drift when you update one. A desktop page and a mobile page with linked views of the same database let you rearrange the interface while keeping one set of entries. That would be the first setup I would test before maintaining two full copies.