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Make a countdown

Set a title and a date. You get a link to embed on any Notion page. The date lives in the link itself, so it is yours to change any time, with no account and no sign-in.

Your countdown

The date starts at 45 days out so the preview has something to count — set your own before you copy the link. The countdown then runs on the clock of whoever is looking at it, and a date with no time set counts down to midnight.

Preview

Your embed link

  1. In Notion, click an empty line and type /embed.
  2. Paste the link, then press Embed.
  3. Drag the bottom edge of the block to set its height.

Everything the countdown shows is part of the link, so changing it means a new link rather than a setting inside Notion. Come back here, build the one you want, then hover the block in your Codex, click ⠿ → Edit, and paste the new link over the old address.