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Notion Template Creation Is Difficult Because Options Are Hard to Locate

A user likes Notion's underlying features but finds creating templates cumbersome, since the relevant settings and options are not easy to discover within the interface. This discoverability gap slows down users trying to set up reusable structures. It points to an information-architecture issue rather than a missing capability.

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