When it comes to organizing your Notion pages, custom icons can be incredibly useful. For example, you can use a shopping cart icon to represent your grocery list, a calendar icon for your monthly schedule, or a cash icon for your budget planner. Icons provide a great alternative to page emojis, especially considering the limited collection of emojis available. However, icons are not limited to just the page header; they can also be utilized in your databases.

If you frequently use a table database in Notion, you may have noticed that the properties (column names in your table) come with default icons. Unfortunately, these icons often do not correspond well with the names you assign to the properties. Take the “Number” property, for instance, which is represented by a hashtag icon. If you change the property name to “Amount Purchased,” the hashtag icon may not make much sense. Thankfully, you can easily change the icon by clicking on the property name, selecting the icon next to it, and choosing a different icon from the library.

Similarly, you have the ability to change the icon of the database view itself. To do this, click on the name of the database view and select “Edit view” from the drop-down menu. In the View Options, click on the icon box to the left of the database view name, and select the new icon you want to use.