Slack + Notion Split View on iPad: The Complete Guide

You can run Slack and Notion side by side on iPad using Split View, and with Splicon you can launch that exact combination from your Home Screen in one tap.

If you spend any serious time collaborating remotely, you already know the problem: a message lands in Slack asking you to update a spec, clarify a deadline, or check a project brief, and you end up bouncing back and forth between apps until you lose your train of thought. Putting both apps on screen at once cuts that loop short.

Why Slack and Notion work well together in Split View

These two apps cover opposite ends of the same workflow. Slack is ephemeral — fast, conversational, easy to miss. Notion is persistent — structured, searchable, built to hold information long-term. The friction comes from constantly moving between them. Side by side, they complement each other naturally.

Here are three workflows where this pairing pays off:

• Live meeting notes: Keep a Notion meeting page open on the left while the Slack channel for that project is on the right. As decisions get made in the call, you capture them in Notion without losing the chat thread where follow-ups will land.
• Turning Slack messages into documented tasks: When a request comes in over Slack, you can read the full context on one side and immediately write it up as a Notion task or database entry on the other — no copy-pasting between windows or relying on memory.
• Reviewing specs during a conversation: If a teammate is asking questions about a document, you can have the actual Notion page open while responding in Slack, so you're reading the source material as you answer rather than paraphrasing from memory.

How to set it up with Splicon

If you haven't got Splicon yet, grab it here first: Download Splicon free from the App Store

1. Open Splicon and search for Slack and Notion. Select them as your app pair. Splicon pulls in the real app icons so the result looks clean and intentional on your Home Screen.
2. Choose a split style — you can pick which app sits on the left and adjust the visual layout — then generate the icon. Save it to your Photos library when prompted.
3. Open the Shortcuts app, create a new shortcut, and add an "Open App" action configured to open both apps in Split View. When the shortcut asks for an icon, choose the image you just saved from Photos.
4. Add the shortcut to your Home Screen. Long-press your Home Screen, tap the + button, find your shortcut, and place it wherever makes sense.

After that, one tap puts you straight into Slack on one side and Notion on the other, at whatever split ratio you set.

A few tips once you're set up

Notion works better on the wider side if you're actively writing or editing a database. Slack can comfortably sit in the narrower column since most messages are short. You can adjust the divider at any time by dragging it — the shortcut just gets you into the pairing quickly, it doesn't lock the ratio.

If you run multiple Slack workspaces, the Split View will open whichever workspace you were last in, so it's worth leaving the most relevant one active before locking your iPad.

This setup won't change how either app works — it just removes the step of manually hunting for and arranging them every time you sit down to do focused work.