Have you ever developed a headache trying to read through undivided or indistinct pages of writing? Imagine this particular article you’re currently reading without the sections and breaks? Well, that’s how stressful it can get with some collaboration tools and Notion is not an exception. In fact, this trend is more common with Notion.
An easy way to separate thoughts and ideas into sections is to break up (or divide) contents on each page. This will perform the twin task of making reading less tedious as well as giving your text some appealing flair.
Dividers in Notion
In Notion, there are two ways through which you can divide text; using a Horizontal Divider, or using a Vertical Divider. Creating a Horizontal Divider in Notion can be said to be straightforward as there is a command assigned with that function.
However, creating Vertical Dividers is not so straightforward and that’s why in this article, we’re focusing on what you need to know about adding a Vertical Divider in Notion.
Adding a Vertical Divider in Notion
Since you cannot create a Vertical Divider in Notion using a command (at least not yet), your best bet is to create something that will make your text look like it has been vertically divided – a Quote. As weird as this might sound to you, you should know that it works, otherwise, I won’t even be writing an article about it on here.
Adding a Quote column in Notion
To add a quote, create a column and select the section of text to which you want to apply this feature. To the left, you’ll see a six-dotted icon. Click and hold that icon to drag that selection to the right of the screen. What this does is to create a new column with nothing but empty space between it and adjoining columns.
Using the Quote column to create a Vertical Divider
Again, select that same portion of text but this time, click on that six-dotted icon to expand the menu of actions. In the list of actions, select “Turn into” and then “Quote” in the succeeding list of actions. This adds a bold black vertical line to the left of the body of text you have selected. Voila! You have added a “Vertical Divider” (in Quotes) [pun intended :)].
