Notion just released a small feature that eliminates a little workaround @bensomething had discovered a few years ago. Well, I suppose it will be properly implemented now, but I really enjoyed using this workaround.

Now you can automatically add today's (or now's) date in date properties in database templates! They also expanded the feature to the person property: whoever uses the template becomes the owner in the person property.

There isn't much to do except select the blue "Today", "Now", or "Person who duplicated page" options.

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