Notion + Slack Split View on iPad: A Practical Guide

If you live in Notion for documentation and Slack for team chat, switching between them on iPad gets old fast. Putting them side by side in Split View keeps your docs visible while messages come in, so you can write, reference, and reply without losing your place. The catch is that opening that exact pair every time takes several taps. A single Home Screen shortcut fixes that.

Here's why Notion and Slack are a strong Split View pair, plus a few workflows that actually benefit from seeing both at once.

Why Notion + Slack Works Side by Side

Notion is where decisions get written down. Slack is where they get discussed. When the two are in separate full-screen sessions, you end up copying snippets back and forth, losing context, or worse, making decisions in Slack that never get documented.

With both visible:

• You can summarize a Slack thread directly into a Notion doc without app-switching.
• You can paste a Notion link into Slack and confirm it renders correctly before sending.
• You can answer questions in Slack while keeping the relevant project page open as a reference.

Three Workflows to Try

1. Live meeting notes during a Slack huddle. Keep your meeting template open in Notion on one side and the huddle's channel on the other. As people drop links, screenshots, or follow-ups in chat, you pull them into the notes in real time. By the end of the call, the doc is already done.

2. Async status updates. Open your team's weekly update page in Notion and the relevant Slack channel. Read what teammates posted, then draft your own update in Notion (where formatting is better), and paste the final version into Slack. Your Notion page becomes the searchable archive.

3. Triaging requests into a backlog. When Slack turns into a stream of "can you also add…" messages, keep your project tracker open in Notion. Drag each request into the backlog database as it comes in, reply in Slack with a quick acknowledgment, and your todo list stays accurate without a separate triage session.

Set It Up with Splicon

Getting this on your Home Screen takes about a minute:

1. Open Splicon and pick Notion as the left app and Slack as the right app (or whichever order matches how you work).
2. Tap Generate Icon to create a combined side-by-side icon showing both app logos.
3. Save the icon to your Photos, then open the Shortcuts app and create a new shortcut using the Split View action with Notion and Slack selected.
4. In the shortcut's settings, choose Add to Home Screen and assign the icon you generated.
5. Tap the new icon — both apps open together in Split View, every time.

From then on, your Notion-and-Slack workspace is one tap away. No Dock fiddling, no dragging app icons from Spotlight, no losing the split layout when you accidentally tap something.

If you find yourself opening these two apps together multiple times a day, that's exactly the kind of friction Splicon is built to remove. Set it once and the pair behaves like a single app on your Home Screen.