Notion Open Graph Preview

A Notion bookmark is text first: the title on one line, a clipped description under it, the favicon and domain at the bottom, and the og:image as a small thumbnail on the right. The image is the least prominent part of the card, the opposite of how every social platform frames the same link.

Because the thumbnail is narrow and cropped, a card built around a wide wordmark reads as a sliver here. The title and the first line of the description are what people scan in a document.

Notion fetches the page from its own servers when the bookmark is created. A link that needs a login, sits on an internal host, or blocks unknown crawlers collapses to a plain link with the URL as its title. The scan above performs the same kind of request, so a clean result means the metadata is reachable.

The bookmark is also a snapshot. Editing the page's tags later does not update a bookmark already in a document — delete it and paste the URL again.